Clinical and Translational Science Institute
The UF Clinical and Translational Science Institute exists to speed discoveries toward better health.
The UF Clinical and Translational Science Institute exists to speed discoveries toward better health. By connecting resources, people and ideas, the institute expands collaboration and advances translational research across UF and its 16 colleges, Florida State University, the University of Miami, the state of Florida, and the national Clinical and Translational Science Awards Consortium, which is funded by the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences of the National Institutes of Health.
The CTSA Program supports a network of more than 50 medical research institutions that play a pivotal role in the NCATS mission to get more treatments to more patients more quickly. Since 2009, the Clinical and Translational Science Institute has received two NIH CTSAs totaling more than $46 million. Clinical and Translational Science Institute research services and resources assist more than 1,000 faculty each year, and the institute incubates transformative programs that create new capabilities for research and translation to practice. Its programs have risen to national prominence and spurred UF preeminence initiatives in genomic medicine, metabolomics, biomedical informatics, translational communication and social network analysis.
The Clinical and Translational Science Institute also serves as a central hub for translational science education and training at UF, fostering a vibrant and multidisciplinary community of scholars, trainees, mentors and research professionals across 11 colleges and four campuses. The institute is headquartered in the Clinical and Translational Research Building, a 120,000-square-foot LEED Platinum facility that opened in 2013. The building houses patient-oriented research venues and teams for the CTSI and the Institute on Aging, as well as the departments of biostatistics, epidemiology, and health outcomes and biomedical informatics.
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During more than 50 years of NIH funding, the CTSI’s Clinical Research Center has been at the forefront of gene therapy, pharmacogenomics and research on rare diseases.
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In 2017-18, teams in the CTRB contributed to research projects supported by 318 awards totaling more than $243 million.
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The CTSI serves as the coordinating center for the OneFlorida Clinical Research Consortium, which bridges the nation’s third-largest state to two national research networks. UF led the creation of OneFlorida in 2013 in collaboration with Florida State University and the University of Miami.
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UF and OneFlorida received a five-year,$12 million award in 2018 to serve as a recruitment center for the NIH All of Us precision medicine initiative. As part of the Southeast Enrollment Center, led by the University of Miami in collaboration with UF, Emory University and Morehouse School of Medicine, OneFlorida will enroll more than 4,000 participants per year in this national research program to advance precision medicine by gathering health data from more than 1 million people in the U.S. UF will also serve as the data coordinating center for the SEEC.
