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The University of Chicago Institute for Translational Medicine
5801 South Ellis Avenue
Chicago, Illinois 60637
(773) 702-1234


Welcome

In an effort to speed the pace at which new biomedical knowledge gets put to practical and effective use to improve the health and health care of our nation’s people, the National Institutes of Health initiated a series of Clinical and Translational Science Awards. In 2007, the University of Chicago received this prestigious award, and with it and substantial additional institutional support has established a broad series of research support and research training programs to accomplish this noble objective. The clinical and translational research support programs are housed in a new Institute for Translational Medicine, and the research training programs are organized through a new Committee on Clinical and Translational Science.

The goals of our CTSA program are to train scientists and health care providers at the University of Chicago and in our Community to determine the molecular underpinnings of disease or disease predisposition in any individual patient; to develop, test, implement, and make readily available to residents in our Community personalized therapies directed toward those individual underpinnings; and to do this in a way that is rigorous, valid, efficient, ethical, and respectful of our Community’s needs and values. The translation of biomedical discovery into effective, deliverable, and personalized therapies for diverse populations with common, complex disorders is a daunting but tremendously important task. Few cures for common health problems have emerged from strategies that ignore personalized needs. We believe this reflects not only the complexity of pathological disease processes but also the extreme heterogeneity of patient populations and the corresponding heterogeneity of successful approaches for diagnosis and treatment.