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...
Neutrophils are an important type of white blood cell and our bodies' first line of defense against infection. Neutropenia is a condition in which a patient has a deficiency of infection-fighting neutrophils. ...
People who run long term REDCap surveys will occasionally need to edit existing questions. In order to do this, you would have needed to retire an entire variable to update options in certain field types. Now, the new action tag @HIDECHOICE allows you to hide specific...
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...
The ITHS Education Program supports investigators, graduate students, and scholars, through training opportunities and mentored career development. Applications have just opened for our three structured career development programs...
Action tags are a handy feature of REDCap in which a specific action can be applied to one or more variables on data entry forms and survey pages. For example, the @HIDDEN action tag allows you to hide a certain field in your data collection...
This article is an announcement from the Center for Health Sciences Interprofessional Education, Research and Practice (CHSIE). On Tuesday, August 22, the National Center for Interprofessional Practice and Education announced the University of Washington Center for Health Sciences Interprofessional Education, Research and Practice (CHSIE) as the winner...
In 2013, Kenneth Cornell, PhD, an associate professor of biochemistry at Boise State University, received an ITHS small pilot award of $10,000 in order to research novel antibiotics to treat Giardia intestinalis infections. This past spring, Dr. Cornell was awarded additional funding by the National...
One of the biggest challenges for the medical research community today is how to involve and engage patients as partners in research processes and clinical trial development. “It is a new skillset for researchers,” says Danielle Lavallee, PharmD, PhD, and an expert in patient engagement....
Kelly Young recently joined the Gene and Cell Therapy Lab (GCTL) team at ITHS. In this question and answer piece, we sat down to learn more about quality assurance at the lab and Kelly Young as the manager. Tell us about your role at ITHS, what...