Mission of the CTRI
The mission of the San Diego Clinical and Translational Research Institute (CTRI) is to create an environment that advances health care through interactions between basic scientists, clinical investigators, community physicians, and patients. We intend to address the barriers that inhibit productivity and rapid translation of research progress into new therapies.
The CTRI serves as the coordinating center for a multidisciplinary program encompassing:
- Four health sciences professional schools spanning two universities: School of Medicine (SOM at UCSD), Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences (UCSD), Nursing (SDSU), and Public Health (SDSU)
- The Rady School of Management (UCSD)
- PhD degree programs in Bioinformatics, Clinical Psychology, Public Health (including Epidemiology, Health Behavior, and Global Health), Audiology and Hearing Sciences, Pharmaceutical Sciences, Biostatistics, and Language and Communicative Disorders. Many of these are dual programs with SDSU, which is a minority-serving institution due to its substantial Latino student population
- Masters of Science degree in Clinical Research (the UCSD K30 program)
- The Jacobs School of Engineering, including the new Institute of Engineering in Medicine and the von Liebig Center for Entrepreneurism and Technology Advancement
- Numerous institutes and centers that support translational research
The CTRI has additional institutional partners including:
- Our academic medical center and university (UCSD) with three hospitals (UCSD Medical Center, Rady Children’s Hospital, and the VA San Diego Health Care System)
- Four biomedical research institutes (Salk, Burnham, JCVI, and LIAI)
- A community health group (Palomar Pomerado Health; PPH) with two hospitals (total of 435 beds) and an enthusiastic group of community physicians in the East County of San Diego
- Three interdisciplinary computing resources (SDSC, Cal-IT2, and Division of Biomedical Informatics)
- A close partnership with the local biotechnology community and their associations. One of these, CONNECT, was founded by UCSD to foster entrepreneurship in the San Diego region by accelerating the growth of businesses in the life sciences. The other key industry organization is BIOCOM, an association representing more than 550 biotechnology companies in Southern California
Together with biomedical doctoral training programs within our institution (Neurosciences, Biomedical Sciences, Molecular Pathology, and Bioengineering), the Physician Scientist Training Program, and the translational CTRI education programs, we are training the next generation of clinical and translational scientists.
Organizational Structure of the UCSD Clinical And Translational Research Institute
Publications that result from research utilizing any of the CTRI resources should cite the grant as a contributing source of support as follows:
"This research was partially supported by the Clinical Translational Research Institute (CTRI), University of California, San Diego. The CTRI has funding from awards issued by the National Center for Research Resources, UL1RR031980, United States Public Health Service.”