Institutions Collaborate to Accelerate Medical Innovation
The Jonsson School is one of more than a dozen institutions participating in a new $34 million, five-year grant designed to speed the process of transforming lab discoveries into medical treatments.
UT Southwestern Medical Center is the lead institution for the National Institutes of Health grant, one of 12 given to medical centers across the country through the Clinical and Translational Science Awards (CTSA) program.
The money will support training health care professionals to conduct clinical research, providing computer support for research trials, assisting in study design, facilitating community outreach and helping create interdisciplinary teams.
“This CTSA is a great example of what our bioengineering initiative is trying to do: in the narrow sense collaborating with UT Southwestern, and in the broad sense engineering better healthcare,” said Duncan MacFarlane, a professor of electrical engineering and associate dean for interdisciplinary programs at the Jonsson School. “At the end of the day, the Jonsson School is involved thanks to the exceptionally high quality of its faculty.”
Other collaborating institutions include Texas schools of dentistry, nursing and pharmacy as well as several Dallas-area hospitals and the UT Dallas School of Behavioral and Brain Sciences.
