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The University of Minnesota (UMN) Clinical and Translational Science Institute (CTSI) creates an academic home to promote clinical and translational research. The CTSI is developing an ongoing alignment with major statewide healthcare organizations and insurers, electronic networks, special and rural community populations, the state department of health, and Mayo Clinic. As a result, the CTSI is in a position to have a strong impact on workforce training, healthcare outcomes and policy in Minnesota.
CTSI aims to improve health and well-being by accelerating discoveries into practice—from the scientist’s laboratory to the patient’s bedside. The UMN provides a full spectrum of research expertise and technologies to foster this acceleration. The CTSI goals are to: 1) create an academic home and an adaptive, sustainable infrastructure to support clinical translational science research at UMN; 2) foster meaningful relationships and transparent interactions between UMN and our communities to improve health statewide; 3) train and reward interdisciplinary clinical translational science teams at UMN and in our communities. Increasingly integrated functions in university cores will support clinical translational science research trainees and junior faculty with learner-tailored curricula. Others will accelerate bench-to-bedside translation and commercial applications. The university’s Biomedical Health Informatics initiative will provide networked clinical data and bio-specimen resources while training future informatics scholars.
The CTSI vision is for an environment that transforms relationships in the health care community, forging a true partnership to facilitate discovery, translation, and knowledge dissemination that identify and address changing community needs to have an ongoing positive impact on people's health.
