News and Breakthroughs

The Enhancing Quality in the Translational Research Workforce Conference — held April 10 on the Northwestern Medicine campus — created the type of interactive platform that are a hallmark of collaborative events co-hosted by Chicagoland's CTSA hubs.

There are many benefits to participating in a research study and learning about your health is one of them. Researchers occasionally learn new information during a research study that needs further attention or follow up, even in patients who we though were perfectly healthy.

A multi-institutional team of investigators have developed a new framework for supporting healthcare providers in implementing polygenic risk score-based testing into primary care settings, according to a recent study published in Nature Medicine.

The public facing ClinicalTrials.gov website revamp was launched in June 2023, and this summer, the Protocol Registration and Results System (PRS), the web-based tool used to submit clinical study information, will be updated to a more user-friendly, streamlined version.

As part of the Schnaper Visiting Scientist Program, the NUCATS Institute is hosting Center for Clinical and Translational Science TL1 Fellow Carly Herbert on Friday, March 29. 

An analysis of NIH training grants has illustrated systematic disadvantages among the trainees who receive the awards.

NUCATS and its Chicagoland CTSA partners hosted a thought-provoking panel discussion on January 19, 2024, commemorating the 30th anniversary of the National Institutes of Health Revitalization Act, a landmark legislation that reshaped the landscape of women's health research and advocacy.

CCR continues to support investigators and study teams with three additional service lines, including Study Finance, Recruitment, and the NMH Clinical Research Unit.

As a nurse and clinical coordinator at Northwestern’s Clinical Research Unit, Angelica Leung Fung facilitates operations, coordinating nurse staffing, patient assignments, and study visit scheduling for hundreds of investigations annually.

As administrator for the Center for Community Health, Love’s role is to facilitate processes for the NUCATS-supported infrastructure team, consisting of the Alliance for Research in Chicagoland Communities, Consultations and Shared Resource Panels, and the Northwestern Primary Care Practice-Based Research Program.

A new social awareness and community mobilization campaign called “PrEP4Teens,” a collaboration led by scientists at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and community leaders in sexual health and youth engagement recently launched.

As a regulatory. coordinator at the NUCATS Institute’s Center for Clinical Research, Bridget Gerk works closely with sponsors, program assistants, financial coordinators, study teams, and several IRBs to finalize contracts and consent forms, prepare documents for signatures, and receive approvals externally and internally.

Yuan Luo, PhD, chief AI officer at the Northwestern University Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute and at the Institute of Augmented Intelligence in Medicine, has been named a fellow of the American College of Medical Informatics.

Lisanne Jenkins, PhD, Kyle MacQuarrie, MD, PhD, and Anna Pfenniger, MD, PhD, each credit the dynamic KL2 program at NUCATS with putting them in position to grow their research careers.

TL1 Trainee Sarah Walker, MD, utilizes machine learning to help mitigate pediatric shock. Her research in personalized intervention works to predict accurate fluid administration to children in need.