Welcome
The Clinical and Translational Science Award (CTSA) program is a national consortium funded by the National Institutes for Health designed to transform how clinical and translational research is conducted at academic health centers across the United States. Ultimately, this consortium is designed to enable researchers to provide new treatments more efficiently and quickly to patients. Currently, the consortium includes 38 academic health centers located throughout the country. When fully implemented in 2012, the NIH anticipates the consortium will comprise about 60 institutions.
 
University of Minnesota Clinical and Translational Science Institute (CTSI)
The University’s CTSA application was sent to the National Institutes of Health on Oct. 17, 2008. Our application outlines the establishment of the Clinical and Translational Science Institute (CTSI), designed to transform health through clinical translational science and community and university partnerships. Read executive summary.

Transformative aspects of the institute include:

• Establish a flexible and evolving CTSI that serves the needs of our partners and communities
• Create a clinical and translational science network that integrates the region at state, institutional, and community-based levels
• Train and reward interdisciplinary teams to implement clinical and translational research in institutional and community-based settings
• Foster transparent communications within and between institutions and communities through continuous, meaningful, and multidirectional dialogues and interactions
• Evaluate health outcomes, cost effectiveness, and cultural transformation of clinical and translational science activities.