Translational Research Incubator Program

The NUCATS Translational Research Incubator Program (TRIP) supports the development of new interdisciplinary research teams and enhances the productivity of existing research teams. To accomplish this, the TRIP:

1. Provides centralized “on demand” expertise in various research designs, analytic techniques, and research ethics. The TRIP brings together scholars from the fields of experimental design and biostatistics, epidemiology, outcomes measurement, behavioral science, communication science, economics, decision science, community-based participatory research, research ethics, and team science to be available for consultation and collaboration.
    
2. Acts as a connector who can introduce to interdisciplinary teams other faculty members with desired expertise not found under the TRIP umbrella.
    
3. Hosts “incubation sessions,” systematic interactions for idea and team development that serve as the means to establish and strengthen collaboration among TRIP faculty, interdisciplinary research teams, and other faculty from disciplines not yet represented by current members of the team. Incubations sessions help refine the research questions of the team; determine the immediate and longer term resource needs (intellectual and technological) necessary to answer these research questions; provideaccess to these resources either directly or via several research networks; and provideinsight to team members how to improve the functioning and productivity of the interdisciplinary research team.

Through the above activities, the TRIP assists in the development, design, and analysis of ongoing studies, new proposals, papers, and presentations of investigative teams associated with the NUCATS Institute.

Leadership

Rowland Chang, MD, MPH, professor of Preventive Medicine, Medicine (Rheumatology), and Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at the Feinberg School of Medicine.