CTSI Career Development

The UR CFAR has a close working relationship with the URMC CTSI that ensures efficient and synergistic use of resources to optimally meet the needs of HIV/AIDS researchers. HIV/AIDS faculty have CFAR supported access to CTSI Education and Career Development offerings and training such as:

• CTSI Seminar Series
• Faculty Development and Mentoring Workshops
• Comparative Effectiveness Research training
  • Training opportunity for postdoctoral and clinical fellows, residents, and faculty. The program goal is to increase the number of researchers qualified to oversee or conduct Comparative Effectiveness Research (CER)
• Community-Engaged Research training
  • Training program to educate investigators to:
    • Engage more effectively with community organizations, agencies, and diverse population groups to identify research questions critical to the community and to improve methods to reflect community preferences
    • Develop more effective strategies for recruitment and retention of participants in clinical studies and improve the dissemination of information from health promotion interventions and/or clinical trials to increase the community’s knowledge of health promotion and disease prevention.
• FDA Investigational New Drug (IND) and Investigational Device Exemption (IDE)
• Practical Skills in Grant writing course