Committing to Care, Access, Equity and Research: NORD Announces 31 Rare Disease Centers of Excellence (Links to an external site)
Category: ICTS News
Should Science Add Another Lane?
In an editorial in the November 5, 2021 issue of Science Magazine, Elvin Geng, MD, MPH, and Enola Proctor, PhD, ICTS Dissemination and Implementation Research Core leaders, suggest that science needs to add another lane, one called implementation research, to ensure the nation’s health discoveries are used to improve population health. Read the full editorial […]
ICTS Core Provides Foundation for Unprecedented Pediatric COVID Collaboration
The Washington University Pediatric and Adolescent Research Consortium (WU PAARC), a practice-based research network of community pediatric healthcare providers, has been an integral part of the ICTS since the inception of the CTSA program at Washington University in 2007. As a core of the ICTS and a part of the Integrating Special Populations function, WU […]
What good is discovery if you can’t share it?
ICTS supports week of programming to help investigators more effectively communicate their science to diverse audiences In partnership with the Bernard Becker Medical Library at Washington University School of Medicine and to kick off Health Literacy Month, the ICTS supports #SciComm Week with a series of events to help researchers craft and disseminate stories about […]
Podcast: Boosters? Vaccines for kids? Where do we stand heading toward winter? (Links to an external site)
This episode of ‘Show Me the Science’ focuses on where we are and where we’re headed with COVID-19, from the perspective of 2 top experts in infectious diseases
Podcast: Shutdowns in COVID-19’s early days helped St. Louis area avoid thousands of deaths (Links to an external site)
This episode of ‘Show Me the Science’ highlights how stay-at-home orders changed the initial trajectory of the pandemic
Researcher Engagement, Scientific Productivity Linked in Infrastructure Grants (Links to an external site)
If you build it, will they come? When it comes to engaging scientists, a new study says that if you fund it, they will.
COVID-19 transmission at school rare for children with disabilities (Links to an external site)
Weekly saliva tests contributed to low rates during previous school year
Early COVID-19 shutdowns helped St. Louis area avoid thousands of deaths (Links to an external site)
Delays in implementing public health orders likely would have resulted in many more hospitalizations, deaths
Liquid biopsies may aid diagnosis, treatment of bladder, nerve tumors (Links to an external site)
Blood, urine biopsies could pave way for more personalized cancer therapy