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December 4, 2019 | Volume 09 | Issue 23

High-tech scanning technology available to investigators

The importance of sophisticated imaging technology in medical research is difficult to dispute. Imaging makes important contributions to translational research via testing of new diagnostic and therapeutic interventions. Not every researcher making use of this technology is strictly a medical researcher. Since 2015, a total of 50 investigators from 25 departments at 11 of UB’s schools have used the services of UB's Center for Biomedical Imaging and CTSI's Translational Imaging Core. Read more

In The News
Call for Abstracts Deadline
Friday, December 13

Investigators are invited to showcase original research at the Translational Science 2020 national conference with an engaging audience of key thought leaders, future collaborators and funding agencies. Read more
UB research advances device to treat infections
Electrical stimulation technology to treat infections on metal implants – for example, knee replacements – developed by CTSI pilot studies investigators Mark Ehrensberger, PhD, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and Jacobs School, and Anthony Campagnari, PhD, Jacobs School, is the basis for Garwood Medical Devices’ BioPraxTM “Breakthrough Devices” designation by U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Read more
Breast imaging system in development
New imaging system that combines light and ultrasound technology, being developed as a portable breast-imaging system, has the potential to detect breast cancer earlier, according to recently published findings of CTSI pilot studies investigator Jun Xia, PhD, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and Jacobs School. Read more

Upcoming Events
January
28

Statistical Workshop Series
Sample Size and Power I
4:00 - 6:00 p.m., 144 Farber Hall, South Campus

SAVE THE DATE
CTSI Annual Forum
March 18, 2020 - 1:00 to 5:00 p.m.
Clinical and Translational Research Center



Keynote Speaker
Joe V. Selby, MD, MPH
Senior Advisor to the Interim Executive Director
Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI)

A family physician, clinical epidemiologist and health services researcher, Dr. Selby served as the founding Executive Director of PCORI.

 
Message from the CTSI Director
This month’s newsletter includes a story about the UB Center for Biomedical Imaging located in the Clinical and Translational Research Center. The Center for Biomedical Imaging, supported in part by the CTSI, has broad reach in working with faculty and trainees located in 11 of the 12 UB schools on translational research projects that utilize MRI and PET-CT imaging.
 
I had the opportunity to give a poster presentation on the Imaging Center at the CTSA Program meeting in Washington in September. Some of the innovative approaches in translational imaging that are being planned over the next five years in Buffalo are attracting substantial attention from the national CTSA audience. A particularly noteworthy undertaking is the plan to partner with the Informatics Core to combine genomic, EHR, and image data to produce predictive analytics that will expand and enhance translational science studies. I am not aware of other CTSA hubs that are tackling this challenging problem. The UB Center for Biomedical Imaging will lead a collaborative project with four other CTSA hubs to create a common platform for sharing of imaging sequences, protocols and analyses, which will reduce redundant effort and create a powerful approach to facilitate multisite studies. The vision is that once the platform is established and working among the five hubs, it will be rolled out nationally. Finally, the Imaging Center will offer innovative MRI and PET preclinical multimodal hybrid studies, a unique confluence of two powerful imaging modalities, representing a major advance in diagnostic imaging.
 
These innovative plans, will advance the state-of-the-art translational imaging capabilities for research teams at UB and our partners, lead to new funding, and ultimately, lead to increasing understanding of the complex mechanisms that underlie human health and disease so as to develop new interventions.

Timothy F. Murphy MD
SUNY Distinguished Professor of Medicine, Director of UB's Clinical and Translational Science Institute
Reminder

Cite the CTSA


If you use CTSA resources for a research project, or are directly funded by pilot funding provided by the CTSA, or you’re a BTC scholar funded by the CTSA, you must cite the CTSA in your manuscript and any downstream publications.

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This newsletter was supported by the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences of the National Institutes of Health under award number UL1TR001412 to the University at Buffalo. The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the NIH.

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