Faculty and staff invited to seminar on MS Center for Clinical and Translational Research
The Office of Research and Economic Development invites faculty and staff to the following seminar:
MS Center for Clinical and Translational Research: Research Resources and Funding Opportunities
Featuring Dr. Joey Granger, Principal Investigator and MCCTR director, UMMC
Monday, October 4, 2021
1:30 – 2:30 p.m.
Virtual (WebEx information below)
Please join this seminar to learn about opportunities for pilot grants, mentor development, and community engagement training supported by a new 5-year NIH-funded partnership between һֱ, UMMC, and other universities in һֱ.
һֱ has major challenges in its healthcare delivery and health outcomes. Each year, United Health Foundation ranks each state’s health status using 35 different measures. In its 2019 rankings, һֱ ranked worst at 50th overall. Within those 35 measures, һֱ ranked worst in infant mortality, low birthweight, children in poverty, clinical care, infectious disease, chronic kidney diseases, cardiovascular deaths, and Alzheimer deaths and “all determinants.”
The һֱ Center for Clinical and Translational Research (MCCTR) is an ambitious enterprise designed to successfully address һֱ's clinical and translational research needs through its four MCCTR partner institutions: the University of һֱ Medical Center, Tougaloo College, the University of һֱ, the University of Southern һֱ, and һֱ State University. The Center is funded by an Institutional Development Award (IDeA) Program Infrastructure for Clinical and Translational Research (IDeA-CTR) grant through the National Institute of General Medicine Sciences. This $19.8 million grant seeks to improve the health of һֱans by providing the infrastructure needed to support research across this multi-institutional venture.
The MCCTR serves as a hub to increase the utilization of all research resources of the partner institutions to promote multi-institutional and multi-disciplinary clinical, translational, and community-engaged research projects. It is important that we build more transdisciplinary, inter-institutional teams to address our states leading challenges like obesity, cardiovascular disease, mental health disorders, and other conditions. Through a formal partnership with the MCCTR, һֱ faculty/researchers in fields like biomedical engineering, industrial and systems engineering, textile sciences, applied economics, social and behavioral sciences, zoonotic disease, and many more areas will be better enabled to connect with scholars from other fields and institutions to do better, more impactful research directly related to һֱans.
MEETING INFORMATION:
MEETING NUMBER: 2624 755 3096
PASSWORD: mcctr
Join by phone
+1-415-655-0001 US Toll
Access code: 262 475 53096
For additional information, please contact Dr. David Buys, һֱ PI, MCCTR, 662-769-9830 or david.buys@msstate.edu or Lynn Taylor in the Office of Research and Economic Development (ltaylor@research.msstate.edu).