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Research: Institute for Clinical and Translational Research
The Institute for Clinical and Translational Research is a community-academic partnership that is improving the transfer of biomedical and health sciences discoveries into practical use in health-care providers' offices, clinics, hospitals and communities. The institute originated in 2007 with a five-year, $41 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
La Follette School faculty collaborate with the ICTR's Community Academic Partnerships core and represent the campus’ Health Policy Group on the grant’s steering committee. That committee selects proposals submitted by public affairs and other faculty to evaluate the adoption of health-care innovations in Wisconsin.
Two such assessments involve La Follette students and faculty studying the cost effectiveness of early detection and treatment of Alzheimer’s disease and improvements in the care of diabetes patients. Funding from the School of Medicine and Public Health's Medical Education and Research Committee supports this work.
La Follette School professors, including Barbara Wolfe, David Weimer, Pamela Herd and Carolyn Heinrich, helped to prepare the original NIH grant proposal. Thomas DeLeire is also involved in the project.
The ICTR is a collaboration of four UW health sciences schools — Medicine and Public Health, Nursing, Pharmacy and Veterinary Medicine — and the College of Engineering. A strong partnership with Marshfield Clinic and its research arm, the Marshfield Clinic Research Foundation, is also a key feature.
La Follette School plays role in National Institutes of Health grant at UW, September 27, 2007, La Follette School News
Major grant advances UW’s clinical and translational research enterprise, September 18, 2007, University of Wisconsin-Madison news service
UW-Madison approves new research institute, March 21, 2007, University of Wisconsin-Madison news service