University of Illinois Chicago Center for Clinical and Translational Science
For many scientists, turning a laboratory breakthrough into something that changes a patient’s life can take decades. The long path through regulation, data checks and carefully controlled trials often slows even the most promising ideas.
At the University of Illinois Chicago, researchers say that delay is precisely what they want to shorten. The university’s Centre for Clinical and Translational Science has secured a significant renewal of its federal funding — more than $30 million over seven years from the US National Institutes of Health — to help accelerate discoveries from labs and clinics into real treatments.
The centre plans to use the funding to improve how health research is carried out and to pursue solutions to urgent medical problems. Co-director Robin Mermelstein said the award shows the value of “collaborative science”, adding that it allows researchers to work more closely with communities, health systems and patients.
The centre’s leadership team includes Mermelstein, psychiatrist and sociologist Dr Niranjan Karnik, and emergency medicine expert Dr Terry Vanden Hoek. Together, they bring experience ranging from community-based mental health research to large-scale clinical trials, data science and efforts to improve survival after cardiac arrest.
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