For the first time since ITHS was established in 2007, leadership from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) came to Seattle for an on-site visit during our annual External Advisory Board meeting. Joining us were Michael G. Kurilla, MD, PhD, Mary Purucker, MD, PhD, and...
Bryan Comstock, MS, a senior biostatistician and consultant with ITHS, was recently highlighted by the UW Department of Biostatistics for his role in developing Crowd-Sourced Assessment of Technical Skills (C-SATS), a new platform for evaluating surgical skills. The article titled, “Biostat grad among co-founders of...
Many study teams face their greatest challenge of all during clinical trial recruitment. Too often hardships in finding trial participants can raise costs or result in studies closing before the target data is collected. ITHS aims to reduce this barrier by providing recruitment support in...
The CTSA Trial Innovation Network (TIN) aims to make multi-site clinical trials as efficient as possible by reducing effort and cost. To further this mission, the TIN produces a regular webinar series to disseminate novel techniques and trainings to research teams. ...
ITHS is helping facilitate a major undertaking by Fred Hutch, UW Medicine, and the Seattle Cancer Care Alliance to unify their clinical trials management through a new system. We are pleased to announce the refreshed website for the Clinical Trials Management System (CTMS) Program Office....
The Translational Research and Information lab (TRAIL) provides space and services that accelerate healthcare. For the past year, TRAIL has provided investigators with a much needed space for generating new ideas, exploring cutting-edge technology, and learning new skills. ...
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) will require most applications for multi-site studies conducting the same protocol at each site and which are received on or after January 25, 2018 to describe the use of a single Institutional Review Board (IRB). ...
Julie Elworth is the new Director of Evaluation for the Institute of Translational Health Sciences. She works closely with staff and faculty to evaluate approaches to training and research implementation. Julie is part of the evaluation team which collects and analyzes the key data necessary...
Oregon Health & Science University, Northwestern University, University of Washington, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, and Sage Bionetworks, together with The Scripps Research Institute, Washington University in St. Louis, the University of Iowa, and The Jackson Laboratory have been awarded a $25M cooperative agreement...
The NIH has awarded $15M in funding to further their Tissue Chip Drug Screening program, which was launched by the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS) in 2012. Jonathan Himmelfarb, MD, Director of the Kidney Research Institute and UW Professor of Medicine, received one...
