The University of Maryland, Baltimore (UMB) Institute for Clinical & Translational Research (ICTR) strives to provide financial support as well as infrastructure, environment, training, and workforce to invigorate, facilitate, and accelerate clinical translational research to improve patient and community health.
Established through a grant awarded by the National Institute of Health’s (NIH) Clinical and Translational Science Awards (CTSA) Program, ICTR serves as a University-wide interdisciplinary hub for clinical translational research and training. The Institute brings together the schools of dentistry, medicine, nursing, law, pharmacy, and social work to develop the best strategies for rapidly delivering select shared resources to the University’s research community. Its primary goals include:
- Providing a seamless integrated infrastructure to drive the entire spectrum of clinical and translational research bidirectionally from molecules to communities.
- Promoting innovation in clinical and translational research by stimulating multi- and interdisciplinary team science directed at the translation of basic discovery to human studies and product development as we engage other academic hubs and industry.
- Educating and training generations of multidisciplinary clinical and translational scientists by providing education for trainees at all levels and backgrounds, including students in medicine, dentistry, nursing, pharmacy, social work, law, and graduate studies; residents, postdoctoral fellows, and faculty focused on preventing the health burden of acute and chronic diseases across the lifespan.
- Providing a forum for bidirectional conversations with communities, networks, and practitioners outside academia to identify needs, synthesize emerging data supporting new health interventions, and systematically examine ways in which evidence-based interventions are integrated into best practices in community settings, including schools, clinical practice, and health systems to reduce disparities in health outcomes.
Watch this four-minute video for an overview of the Clinical Translational Science Award (CTSA) and its role in helping UMB stay on the cutting-edge of clinical and translational research.
There are four research cores at ICTR: the Biologics Core, the Informatics Core, the Drug Development and Discovery (DDD) Core, and the Community and Collaboration Core (CCC).
Faculty members at the University of Maryland School of Pharmacy, in collaboration with faculty members across UMB and at Johns Hopkins University, are instrumental in leading the Institute to achieve its mission. Explore the list of School of Pharmacy faculty members below to learn more about each one is involved in ICTR.
School of Pharmacy ICTR Faculty Members
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Joga Gobburu, PhD Professor of Practice, Sciences, and Health Outcomes Research Director, Center for Translational Medicine Associate Director, ICTR Drug Discovery and Development (DDD) Core |
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Stephen Hoag, PhD |
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Maureen Kane, PhD Associate Professor of Pharmaceutical Sciences Director, Mass Spectrometry Center Associate Director, ICTR Drug Discovery and Development (DDD) Core |
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Alexander MacKerell, PhD Professor of Pharmaceutical Sciences Director, Computer-Aided Drug Design (CADD) Center Associate Director, ICTR Drug Discovery and Development (DDD) Core |
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C. Daniel Mullins, PhD Professor, Department of Practice, Sciences, and Health Outcomes Research Executive Director, The PATIENTS Program Director, ICTR Community and Collaboration(CCC) Core |
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Eberechukwu Onukwugha, MS, PhD Associate Professor of Practice, Sciences, and Health Outcomes Research Executive Director, Pharmaceutical Research Computing (PRC) Center Associate Director, ICTR Biostatics Core Associate Director, ICTR Informatics Core |
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James Polli, PhD Professor of Pharmaceutical Sciences Co-principal Investigator, Center of Excellence in Regulatory Science and Innovation (CERSI) Director, ICTR Drug Discovery and Development (DDD) Core |
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Paul Shapiro, PhD Professor of Pharmaceutical Sciences Associate Director, ICTR Drug Discovery and Development (DDD) Core Associate Dean for Research and Advanced Graduate Studies |
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Fadia Shaya, PhD, MPH |
The UMB ICTR website provides information about how to access shared resources available across the UMB campus. Visit the website for more information, including latest news, upcoming events, and ways to support ICTR researchers.
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