UR CTSI-led Study Helps Assess Community Engagement

Community engagement is an increasingly important aspect of research, yet academic health centers struggle to measure it. UR CTSI researchers created and tested a community engagement assessment process to help academic health centers map, track, and bolster their efforts.

CTSI Announces Research Centers in Minority Institutions Scholarly Exchange

The University of Rochester Clinical Translational Science Institute (CTSI) announces a funding opportunity to promote inter-institutional research collaboration between faculty, staff, and students from the University of Rochester and any of the Research Centers in Minority Institutions (RCMI) grantee institutions.

Deborah Ossip Recognized for Outstanding Research on Nicotine & Tobacco

Deborah J. Ossip, Ph.D., is among the 2017 Fellows of the Society for Research on Nicotine & Tobacco. Ossip has studied tobacco use and cessation since 1980 and conducted one of the original trials that led to the national Quitline, a toll-free tobacco cessation service.  

Hire a Data Science Student to Improve Your Research

Graduate and undergraduate students from the Goergen Institute for Data Science can improve your healthcare-related study with expertise in machine learning, predictive analytics, querying databases, interpreting data, or advanced data visualization.

UR CTSI Population Health Postdoc Receives Award for Obesity Research

Congratulations to the UR CTSI’s first Population Health postdoctoral fellow, Ying Meng, Ph.D., R.N., on taking home the top award for a poster competition at the Obesity Society’s Annual Scientific Meeting in early November. Meng’s award-winning poster focused on how genes and diet work together to influence weight gain during pregnancy.