Clinical & Translational Science Institute / Collaboration

Collaboration

The UR CTSI provides research teams with various opportunities to partner with other clinical or translational researchers—both near and far—as well as physicians, research staff and the community. We help you make connections that can move your research forward.

Community Engagement

Engaging the community at all stages of research is a UR CTSI guiding principle. In partnership with the Center for Community Health & Prevention, the UR CTSI offers consultations to help researchers collaborate with the community.

Engage with the community

UNYTE Translational Network

The UR CTSI helps translational researchers collaborate and share resources through the UNYTE Translational Research Network, which includes 20 biomedical research institutions across Upstate New York and Pennsylvania.

Learn about UNYTE

CLIC: CTSA Program Coordination

The Center for Leading Innovation and Collaboration, housed at the UR CTSI, helps coordinate translational research efforts across the country and uniquely positions URMC to collaborate with other top biomedical research institutions.

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Spotlight

CCHP Community Health Policy & Education Director Launches Innovative Course

A new free, online course “Community Engagement in Research and Population Health,” developed Theresa Green, Ph.D., M.B.A., director of Community Health Policy and Education at the Center for Community Health & Prevention (CCHP) and assistant professor of Public Health Sciences at URMC, just launched!

Research Centers in Minority Institutions Scholarly Exchange

The UR CTSI collaborates with the URMC Summer Scholars Program to offer research training to students who are underrepresented in the biomedical and health sciences. Undergraduates at institutions that are part of the NIH-supported Research Centers in Minority Institutions (RCMI) program, can apply to the UR CTSI's RCMI Scholarly Exchange to get all of the benefits of the URMC Summer Scholars program - and more.

Empire Discovery Institute

The University of Rochester, University at Buffalo and Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center have joined together to form the Empire Discovery Institute (EDI), a powerful drug discovery partnership that aims to convert the institutions’ scientific breakthroughs into viable pharmaceuticals for commercialization. This not-for-profit institute also strengthens the region as a hub for life sciences research and development.