Oklahoma Shared Clinical and Translational Resources (OSCTR)
Overview
Through a partnership between the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, OMRF and other partners statewide, the Oklahoma Shared Clinical and Translational Resources (OSCTR) stimulates research that meets the health needs of underserved and underrepresented Oklahomans. As one of just nine such centers in the United States, The OSCTR is creating a more competitive landscape for clinical and translational research in Oklahoma by:
- Developing infrastructure for clinical and translational research
- Funding promising new lines of research and junior investigators through pilot grant funding
- Building a pool of well-trained and committed clinical and translational investigators through education, mentoring and career development
- Facilitating rigorous and interpretable studies through consultation, collaboration, and training on biostatistics, epidemiology and research design
- Engaging the community to identify research priorities, refine innovations and spread effective innovations to clinical practice
- Providing access to cost-effective clinical resources for research, including large, well-characterized biospecimen collections, regulatory assistance, subject recruitment assistance and staffed facilities for clinical research visits
- Fostering respectful collaborations and investigations within tribal communities and other underserved populations
- Promoting effective progress through well-designed program evaluations
- Implementing strategic leadership, central oversight and management of personnel and resources devoted to the OSCTR
A $20.3 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (U54GM104938) supports the OSCTR through an Institutional Development Award (IDeA). The IDeA program fosters health-related research in states with historically low NIH grant funding success rates, enabling them to become nationally competitive.
