$29.4 Million Grant Establishes Clinical and Translational Science Institute at NYU in Partnership with NYC Health and Hospitals Corporation

November 03, 2009

NYU and NYU School of Medicine received a $29.4 million, five-year Clinical and Translational Science Award from the NIH to establish a university-wide Clinical and Translational Science Institute (CTSI) in partnership with the New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation (HHC). The funding is designed to train medical researchers, more rapidly advance science from the lab to the patient to the community, and to allow researchers to explore mechanisms of health disparities and develop evidence-based approaches targeted at their reduction. With this grant, NYU, the NYU School of Medicine and HHC will become part of a network of 46 existing Clinical and Translational Science centers based at academic medical centers around the country. In addition to NYU School of Medicine, this collaborative effort will bring together the interests and talents of researchers among NYU's active health-related and clinical schools, including the School of Dentistry, College of Nursing, Wagner School of Public Service, Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development, the Stern School of Business, the Silver School of Social Work, the Courant Institute for Applied Mathematics and the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, to bear on the pressing problems facing New Yorkers. Eight of HHC's 11 facilities will participate in the initiative including: the South Manhattan Network (comprised of Bellevue, Metropolitan, Gouverneur and Coler-Goldwater), Woodhull, Coney Island, Kings County and Lincoln hospitals. The CTSI will be directed by Bruce N Cronstein, MD, the Dr Paul R Esserman Professor of Medicine, professor of pathology and pharmacology, NYU School of Medicine, and co-directed by Judith Hochman, MD, the Harold Snyder Family Professor of Cardiology, NYU School of Medicine. The NYU-HHC CTSI will focus on three primary objectives:

• Leveraging the individual expertise and ongoing collaboration of NYU Langone Medical Center and HHC researchers to facilitate discoveries in the laboratory that can be moved quickly to the bedside and into the community.
• Supporting education, training and development of researchers who can conduct the investigations necessary to bring scientific advances to the public.
• Enhancing ties between NYU-HHC researchers and the community to more rapidly identify health problems and apply the knowledge gained to promote the use of new developments and evidence-based medicine within communities, thereby reducing healthcare disparities.

More information is available online.