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.

UR CTSI Demystifies Translational Science with New Online Course

The University of Rochester Clinical and Translational Science Institute has developed one of the first massive open online courses (MOOC) focused on translational science. Anyone interested in learning more about translational science can audit the course for free.

Studying Healthcare as a Network: Does the Analysis Match the Question?

Studying the healthcare system as a network can help researchers uncover patterns of opioid over-prescription or predict how a virus outbreak might overtax a healthcare network. But researchers from the University of Rochester Medical Center caution that the type of algorithms used to make these discoveries could provide misleading results.

Past CTSI Pilot Awardee Lands in PLOS ONE’s Top 25%

A UR CTSI-funded bladder cancer study is among the 25 percent most cited studies published in PLOS ONE in 2016. The study offers a biomarker and drug target candidate for bladder cancer, the fifth most common cancer.

Do the Drugs that Keep HIV Patients Alive Damage Their Brains?

URMC researchers are studying whether drugs used to keep HIV patients alive could be damaging their brains. Early results from their clinical study suggest that these drugs do not pose a threat to the brain - at least in the short-term.