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Local community-based public health leaders honored as Unsung Heroes
An award reception in October paid tribute to the accomplishments of 21 ‘Unsung Heroes’ for their outstanding contribution to advancing public health in Minneapolis and St. Paul communities.The event was co-sponsored by the National…
New workgroup for UMN “All of Us” researchers
University of Minnesota researchers interested in conducting research that leverages data from the NIH’s All of Us Research Program are invited to attend a new workgroup.
Research policies at UMN: New online training
The Clinical and Translational Science Institute (CTSI) has released a new training module to help orient University of Minnesota research professionals to the U’s research policies.The module — called UMN Human Research Policies — is…
Mothers Leading Science program welcomes the 2025 cohort
The Clinical and Translational Science Institute welcomes the sixth cohort of research-intensive faculty into the Mothers Leading Science program, a competitive one-year leadership development program for faculty in the health sciences who…
New dataset for advancing health research that benefits underrepresented communities
University of Minnesota researchers have expanded access to health data from communities that have historically been underrepresented in research, thanks to a new research data warehouse from CTSI and the Community-University Health Care…
John Song Award presented to Sydney Viel
At the CTSI Translational Science Symposium and Poster Session on Sept. 17, 2024, the John Song Award was presented to Sydney Viel, Regulatory Affairs Program Manager at CTSI.For the past eight years, Sydney has had a tremendous impact on…
Outstanding faculty mentors recognized by CTSI
Two University of Minnesota faculty members were honored for their outstanding mentorship at the CTSI Translational Science Symposium and Poster Session on Sept. 17, 2024.
UMN researchers find use of metformin in adults with diabetes linked to lower risk of Long COVID
Steve Johnson, PhD, CTSI’s Scientific Director of Clinical Informatics and former KL2 scholar Carolyn Bramante, MD, MPH, are the PIs of a recent research paper that supports previous studies of metformin’s reducing the risk of Long COVID.…
Research professional training program reaches major milestone
The CTSI training program Foundations for Research Professionals recently reached a major milestone when it trained its 50th cohort of research coordinators and other research professionals. The training program is designed for those who…
Recording: How to leverage NIH’s All of Us precision medicine dataset
Earlier this month, CTSI held a webinar about how University of Minnesota researchers can use the groundbreaking national dataset available through the NIH All of Us Research Program. The recording and slides from the Zoom webinar, which…