Fall Flashback: Washington University ICTS Team Wins Inaugural TL1 Debate, ‘Statin Wars’
TL1 Trainees at Washington University in St. Louis and the University of Michigan that participated in the inaugural debate in November 2021 connected at the ACTS Translational Science 2022 in Chicago. The TL1 Debate was developed in an effort to help trainees practice their presentation skills and make arguments for or against a concept in […]
Congratulations Dr. Barth!
TL1 trainee,Jessica Barth, MS, OTR/L, successfully defended her PhD thesis entitled “Validation, categorization, and prediction of upper limb outcomes after stroke”. Occupational Therapist, PhD in Movement Science and Master of Science in Clinical Investigation with concentration in Dissemination and Implementation with mentor: Dr. Catherine Lang. In her work Jessica explored the divergence between lab based […]
“The ICTS TL1 Program: Training the Future Clinical and Translational Workforce” (Links to an external site)
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KL2 Scholars Attend Annual Translational Science Meeting in Chicago
KL2 scholars, Jeffrey Koenitzer, MD, PhD; James Krings, MD, MSCI; and Christopher Ryan King, MD, PhD, recently attended the Association for Clinical and Translational Sciences (ACTS) annual Translational Science Meeting in Chicago, IL. This meeting fosters inclusive conversations amongst colleagues, furthers advancements in team science and provides a platform for scholars and trainees to showcase […]
Just Like Me: CRTC shares testimonials from diverse trainees
The Clinical Research Training Center serves as the education and workforce development arm of the Instituteof Clinical and Translational Sciences (ICTS), the Clinical and Translational ScienceAwards (CTSA) Program at Washington University in St. Louis. The CRTC supports the nextgeneration of interdisciplinary research leaders and provides a wide variety ofopportunities to meet the needs of the […]
Washington University Team Wins Inaugural TL1 Debate, ‘Statin Wars’ (Links to an external site)
Congratulations to Washington University TL1 trainees, Ameen Awad, Samuel Cortez, MD, Annahita Fotouhi, and Alexandra Zdonczyk for winning the inaugural TL1 Debate on November 9, 2021, defeating a team from the University of Michigan.
Too many research papers just languish on the shelf. These St. Louis scientists want to put them in action (Links to an external site)
You have a gene. It’s called “cholinergic receptor nicotinic alpha 5 subunit,” or CHRNA5 for short. It does important things inside your body. Certain sections of it, for example, dictate how your brain processes nicotine. That’s true for everybody. You may, however, have variants in and near this gene that put you at risk: They […]
Keleman selected as 2021 TL1 trainee (Links to an external site)
PhD student Audrey Keleman, MSOT, was selected as a 2021 TL1 Translational Sciences Postdoctoral Program (TSPP) trainee.
KL2 Alumnus Maximizes ICTS Options to Gain Skills for Dual Career as Researcher and ICU Clinician (Links to an external site)
In 2015 Kenneth Remy, MD, MHSc arrived in St. Louis to join the Washington University School of Medicine faculty as an assistant professor of pediatrics and launched his lab studying the intersection of transfusion hematology and immune dysregulation. He was fresh off a National Institutes of Health (NIH) fellowship in Bethesda, Maryland, gaining experience that helped to […]