The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has awarded a $20 million grant to The Medical College of Wisconsin, representing a consortium of eight Milwaukee institutions, to create a Milwaukee-wide research partnership that shares a common vision, resources and staff to advance biomedical research, patient care and education.
The goal of the five-year funding is to create a borderless, complementary and synergistic biomedical research enterprise in Southeast Wisconsin that will accelerate the translation of research discoveries into new and improved medical treatments. The funding has been awarded through the NIH's Clinical and Translational Science Awards (CTSA) programme. The Medical College was one of nine centers nationwide to receive the new CTSA funding.
The Medical College of Wisconsin will coordinate the grant, administered through a new academic entity recognised by all partner institutions: the Clinical and Translational Science Institute (CTSI) of Southeast Wisconsin. The eight CTSI member organisations are: the Medical College, Marquette University, the Milwaukee School of Engineering, the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, the BloodCenter of Wisconsin, Children's Hospital and Health System, Froedtert Hospital, and the Clement J. Zablocki VA Medical Center. The partner institutions have worked for three years to develop and establish the CTSI.
The CTSI will seek to advance the new academic discipline of clinical and translational sciences and facilitate training and education of the next generation of healthcare professionals focused on accelerating biomedical discoveries into patient care treatment.
The CTSI's research portfolio currently includes over 140 protocols. Faculty researchers at the four academic institutions and the Blood Research Institute and the Children's Research Institute will have access to each member's research resources and may seek adjunct faculty appointments at the partnering colleges or universities. A $720,000 award from the Medical College's Advancing a Healthier Wisconsin program has already funded 17 collaborative research studies currently underway in Milwaukee.
Since 2003, the NIH has designated 55 CTSA centers across the US at leading academic medical centers.
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