In this episode our host, Sue Marasco, PhD, Assistant Director of Research Programs and Proposal Development for the CTSC sits down with Umut Gurkan, PhD, CTSC Annual Pilot Lead and Wilbert J Austin Professor of Engineering at Case Western Reserve University. They discuss CTSC funding opportunities and the collaborative efforts that have advanced Dr. Gurkan's research and international clinical studies on sickle cell disease.

Plus, learn more about the CTSC's Annual Pilot funding as well as other funding opportunities available through the CTSC.

In this episode our host, Gelise Thomas, JD, MS, Director of Research Health Equity for the CTSC sits down with the Yvonka Hall, MPA, Executive Director of the Northeast Ohio Black Health Coalition. Yvonka tells us stories about her life, her motivation behind the Northeast Ohio Black Health Coalition, applying lived experience to effective community engagement and impacting health equity, her Long COVID research with Dr. Grace McComsey, work with the CTSC, and more!

Plus, learn more about the CTSC's Community Engaged Research Team.

“I want to help you just as much as you can help me. And I think that that's part of the most effective community engagement, is that at the end, the community has helped me as much as I have helped them.”

-Yvonka Hall

Links:

• Become a CTSC Member
• Learn more about the Northeast Ohio Black Health Coalition
• Research Health Equity and READI
• Community Engaged Research

In our first episode of From Research to Real Life, CTSC Principal Investigator, Grace McComsey, MD, FIDSA, and Executive Director, Shannon Swiatkowski, MS, MHcM, give us a proper introduction to the CTSC and the resources available to researchers and community members including funding and training opportunities.

Plus, learn how to access all these services through our featured service: Research Navigation offered by our Assistant Director of Research Concierge Services!

“... The best way [to describe Translational Science] probably is to say we're doing research to improve the research process and make every research study easier to do.” - Grace McComsey, MD, FIDSA

Links:

• Become a CTSC Member
• View our Research Navigation Services and contact our Research Concierge
• Learn more about Translational Science
• Browse our catalog of services and request support through SPARC at SPARC.case.edu
• Remember to cite the CTSC grant in your findings and publications when you’ve used CTSC services: UM1TR004528

Hosts:

• Grace McComsey, MD, FIDSA, Vice Dean of Translational Research and Principal Investigator, Clinical and Translational Science Collaborative of Northern Ohio, Case Western Reserve University
• Shannon Swiatkowski, MS, MHcM, Executive Director, Clinical and Translational Science Collaborative of Northern Ohio, Case Western Reserve University

S1E1 6.2024