Overview

The Institute for Translational Medicine supports the broad range clinical and translational research activities at University of Chicago and our partner institutions. Though they employ approaches as widely diverse as high throughput cell-based screening to identify novel drug targets for cancer and community based participatory research to reduce childhood obesity, they share the common goal of improving health, improving health care, and reducing health disparities in our community.

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  • Office of Clinical Research, which assists investigators in the design and execution of human subjects research
  • Clinical Resource Center, which provides inpatient and outpatient support for human subjects research that requires intensive nursing or observation
  • Clinical Trials, conducted to determine the optimal approaches to care and treatment of a wide range of diseases

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  • Community Connections, whose goal is to support the medical, economic, and social health of our community, and to organize University of Chicago – Community interactions in these domains
  • Community-Based Participatory Research, in which community stakeholders design, participate in, and benefit directly from projects to answer questions identified as important by the community
  • Practice-Based Research, in which community-based health care providers and their patients participate in clinical studies, to assure that clinical research includes research participants who truly reflect the community, and so help to ensure the applicability of research results to our community
  • Health Knowledge Transfer, to and from community stakeholders and healthcare providers

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  • Basic and Preclinical Research, that develop rationale and knowledge for “bench to bedside” research in people, and that provide mechanistic understanding of clinically observed phenomena
  • Health Outcomes, Health Care Policy, and Social Sciences Research, that explores how to ensure the improvement in community health status that could be achieved were all present knowledge to be applied and available in an effective way

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