Team Science at URMC: Using Social Network Analysis to Visualize Research Collaborations

UR CTSI is collecting data from URMC faculty regarding their collaborations within the medical center. An email will be sent to all URMC faculty on Tuesday, October 3 with a link to an online survey. The data will help us understand how the research environment at URMC is evolving over time.

Develop Radical Solutions to the Opioid Epidemic at “Innovation Lab Buffalo”

The Innovation Lab to Drive Early Career Grants program will be held in Buffalo, NY from November 6^th to 10^th, 2017. Over those five days, early-career investigators will work with facilitators and mentors to develop sketches of impactful and novel grant proposals to address the opioid epidemic.

CTSI Emphasis on Team Science and Collaboration Influences Criteria for Faculty Promotions

Revisions to the URSMD Regulations of the Faculty made in July 2014, formally recognized that faculty can make important scientific contributions through their collaborations and team science not necessarily by being a principal investigator on grants or first or senior author on papers.

Join the Healthy Weight Movement

Interested in promoting healthy weight in the Rochester community? Attend the Building Bridges for Healthy Weight Initiatives “unconference” on Saturday, March 25. The event aims to generate new research and program ideas to promote healthy weight by fostering new and diverse collaborations.

Announcing the Winners of a New Collaborative Genomics Pilot Award Program

The University of Rochester Medical Center and the State University of New York at the University of Buffalo (SUNY UB) are teaming up on a large genomics project and have implemented a Collaborative Genomics Pilot Award Program. The inaugural pilot award recipients will use genomic approaches to better understand pancreas cancer and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.