Chicago CTSA Shared Resources
The Chicagoland Clinical and Translational Science Award (CTSA) institutes (NUCATS, ITM and CCTS) are committed to facilitating greater integration and coordination across the institutes to provide seamless access to all relevant resources for translational researchers. The majority of the resources and services listed below are offered at no charge or at the internal rate to Chicagoland CTSA affiliates. Please refer to each institute’s point of contact for additional information and assistance.
Northwestern University Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute
- Biostatistics Collaboration Center lectures and seminars
- Clinical Research Coordinator Basic Training (offered at CTSA discounted rate)
- Community-engaged research resource library, workshops, seminars, and training events
- Navigating the Research Enterprise faculty development seminar series for postdocs and early-career faculty
- Galter Health Sciences Library classes and workshops
- Good Clinical Practice Training
- Mentor Development Workshops
- Team Science Online Learning Modules
- Prevention Science and Methodology Group Virtual Grand Rounds presentations
Contact: nucats@northwestern.edu
The Institute for Translational Medicine
- Monthly bioinformatics training and workshop learning series
- Committee on Clinical and Translational Sciences courses
- Essentials of Patient-Oriented Research training
- myCHOICE (Chicago Options in Career Empowerment)public seminars
- Outcomes research workshops
- Pathobiology of disease seminar series
- Summer Program in Outcomes Research Training
Contact: Sara Serritella
University of Illinois at Chicago Center for Clinical and Translational Science
- Community Engagement Advisory Board consultations
- Community Engagement Toolbox
- CIRTification: Human Research Protection for Community Research Partners
- “Informed Consent in Action” Online Training Videos
- Best Practice Hour seminar series
- Team Science seminar series
- Master Class series — Designed to help clinicians, research coordinators/specialists and other health research personnel develop a better understanding of conducting human subjects research
- PI Toolkit
- Research Methods Course
- Health Disparities Research Online Certificate Program (offered through Chicago Metropolitan Exchange)
Contact: Lauren Rieger
