About ACTSI
Mission
Through ethical community engagement, focused education and training, and innovative support of discovery, the collaborative partners of the Atlanta Clinical and Translational Science Institute rapidly and efficiently translate scientific discoveries to impact all populations of the Atlanta community.
Introduction
The Atlanta Clinical and Translational Science Institute is an inter-institutional magnet that concentrates basic, translational, and clinical investigators, community clinicians, professional societies, and industry collaborators in dynamic clinical and translational research projects. Emory has engaged two of its close academic partners in metropolitan Atlanta - Morehouse School of Medicine and Georgia Institute of Technology - to form the Atlanta Clinical and Translational Science Institute (ACTSI). This partnership, a strategic multi-institutional alliance, offers compelling, unique and synergistic advantages. Emory is a national leader in healthcare and biomedical research as well as outstanding training and education in clinical and translational research; Georgia Tech is a national leader in biomedical engineering and the application of innovative systems engineering to health care solutions; Morehouse School of Medicine is a leading black institution that addresses health disparities through successful community engagement programs and serves as a pipeline for training minority investigators. These institutions extend their current partnerships in healthcare, education, and cutting-edge interdisciplinary research to synergize the Atlanta Clinical and Translational Science Institute. Strategic translational initiatives of the ACTSI are highlighted by the work of the Yerkes Primate Center, the Neurosciences Center, Winship Cancer Center, Vaccine and Immunology Center, as well as Nanotechnology and Regenerative Medicine. Building on this strategic trans-institutional effort, an innovative pediatric clinical and translational research home with full engagement with Children's Healthcare of Atlanta (CHOA), a dynamic community and population studies program involving Kaiser Permanente of Georgia (KPGA), a community engagement, clinical and translational research program at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center of Atlanta and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are key partners in the Atlanta Clinical and Translational Science Institute.
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