BMI Awarded Two New NIH-Funded Research Awards
Tuesday 07/08/2008
OSU BMI has recently been awarded two awards by the National Institutes of Health to pursue research in the area of medical informatics.
The first project is part of an National Center for Research Resources (NCRR) Translational and Clinical Science Award (CTSA) and will serve to support the creation of a regional Center for Clinical and Translational Science (CCTS) involving OSU and Nationwide Children’s Hospital, as well as numerous community-based affiliates. The CCTS informatics program will play a major role in the creation of new translational research capacity for faculty and staff throughout the center and the broader Columbus region. The CCTS informatics program is lead by director Joel Saltz (Chair of BMI), co-director Herb Smaltz (OSUMC CIO), and associate director Philip Payne (OSU BMI faculty member and OSUMC Translational Research Informatics Architect), and will involve the participation of BMI faculty members Tahsin Kurc, Metin Gurcan, Jeff Parvin, as well as Jyoti Kamal (OSUMC Deputy CIO) and members of BMI’s Software Research Institute and the OSUMC Information Warehouse. As part of these efforts, BMI will establish a new Center for Translational Research Computing (CTRC) that will provide a “front door” to translational researchers throughout the CCTS in order to access biomedical informatics expertise, training, and tools. In addition, the CTRC will work with the national CTSA consortium to disseminate the caGrid middleware for use at other CTSA sites.
To learn more about the CCTS please click here.
The second project is funded by a National Cancer Institute R01 award, and will support the development of a next generation translation research information management system for use by the CLL Research Consortium (CLL-RC) and the broader biomedical research community. This project is titled “Re-engineering the CRC Integrated Information Management System” and will be headed by Philip Payne of OSU BMI. The lead site for the project will be OSU with the UCSD Moores Cancer Center also participating. According to the project abstract, the goal of re-engineering the CLL Research Consortium Integrated Information Management System is to increase the overall translational research capacity of the Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia (CLL) Research Consortium (CRC) through the adoption and use of open-source, standards based data repositories, interchange platforms, and analysis tools. 
To view the rest of the grant abstract along with other information presently available please click here.
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