Institute for Clinical and Translational Science

The Institute has established 12 key functions. Each key function is led by an associate director and/or the key function director and other co-directors. These key functions help fulfill the Institute's broader mission by providing individuals with invaluable resources and educational opportunities to promote collaboration, communication, and the sharing of best practices across a variety of clinical and translational research areas.

We invite you to click on the following links to learn more about each key function's goals, current projects, and available resources.

• Participant and Clinical Interactions Resources: provides the physical setting and infrastructure for inpatient and outpatient clinical and translational research at The University of Iowa.
• Regulatory Knowledge and Support: monitors the safety of research participants, help investigators comply with institutional and federal research regulations, prepare safety plans and manage the regulatory process.
• Translational Technologies and Resources: provides investigators with access to and training in sophisticated, state-of-the-art technologies for clinical and translational research.
• Pilot and Collaborative Translational and Clinical Studies: provides financial support for pilot grants, encouraging the expansion of clinical and translational research into new areas and attracting scientists to the field.
• Development of Novel Clinical and Translational Methodologies: encourages individuals to make scientific advances and new technologies, while also encouraging patents and commercialization.
• Genetics and Genomics: helps accelerate gene discovery by providing analytic tools and expertise for convergent genomics, and by providing DNA-processing and genotyping services for the ICTS.
• Research Education, Training and Career Development: trains highly motivated scholars and participating staff for careers in clinical and translational research.
• Clinical and Translational Research in Pediatrics: focuses on bringing research from the laboratory to children in Iowa and around the world.
• Community Engagement: nurtures interactions between researchers at the Universit/y of Iowa and communities across Iowa and the nation.
• Biomedical Informatics: establishes and maintains information technology infrastructure to support clinical and translational researchers within the UI and across the national consortium.
• Biostatistics/Epidemiology/Research Design: helps Institute investigators select and implement appropriate research designs and statistical analysis methods for their individual projects.