Center for Clinical and Translational Sciences (CCTS)
The newly formed Center for Clinical and Translational Science (CCTS) at the OSU Medical Center provides a single professional home and supporting infrastructure for OSU investigators involved in clinical and translational research activities. As part of the CCTS, OSU BMI and Columbus Children’s Hospital are engaged in a comprehensive suite of informatics research and development initiatives intended to result in software and best practices that can enhance translational research capacity at OSU. In addition, OSU BMI is a major component of the Center for Translational Research Computing (CTRC), a group within CCTS that is dedicated to providing CCTS investigators and staff with direct, easy access to leading edge information technologies. Specific CCTS related programs underway within OSU BMI include:
- The development of grid-computing infrastructure technologies specifically designed to support the integration of multi-modal data across a spectrum of academic and community-based sources that are engaged in collaborative translational research activities.
- The creation of ontology-anchored methods for the semantic harmonization and augmentation of biomedical data streams in a distributed, grid-computing environment.
- The design of an organizational and process-oriented model for the provision of a single point of access for translational researchers to informatics support and services.
- The elucidation of workflow models and usability factors incumbent to translational research activities and the relationships of those models and factors to the successful deployment of informatics interventions. The development of multimedia curricula intended to train informaticians and translational researchers in the area of translational research informatics.
Collectively, the preceding programs are intended to support a cohesive and collaborative infrastructure capable of supporting team science and increased translational capacity throughout the entire CCTS.
For more information, please contact Phillip Payne
Project Researchers
Joel Saltz, M.D., Ph.D. (CCTS Informatics Director) (Component Leader: Connectivity and Standards)
Philip Payne, Ph.D (CTRC Director) (Component Leader: Clinical and Tissue Informatics)
Metin Gurcan, Ph. D. (Component Leader: Image Informatics)
Tahsin Kurc, Ph.D. (Component Leader: Genome-Phenome Informatics)
Jyoti Kamal, Ph.D. (Component Leader: Informatics Services)
Stephen Langella, M.S. (Component Leader: Infrastructure and Security)
Shannon Hastings, M.S. (Component Leader: Infrastructure and Security)
Robert Rice, Ph.D. (Component Leader: Collaborative Tools)