Research & Operational Tools

The Penn State Clinical and Translational Science Institute Team Science Toolbox is designed to:

N3C Domain Teams enable researchers with shared interests to analyze data within the N3C Data Enclave and collaborate more efficiently in a team science environment.

Trials Today, a tool from ResearchMatch and Vanderbilt University, offers prospective research participants a quick way to search the thousands of studies available on ClinicalTrials.gov. By answering a few short questions, Trials Today can help find a list of studies that may interest a prospective participant. The Spanish version of Trials Today is now also live.

About the Program

The popular CIRTification program is now available for implementation at the institutional level. CIRTification is a free, web-based human research protections training program tailored specifically to the needs and roles of community research partners.

Clinical Research Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) serve as a core set of procedures for research teams and outline uniform best practices. SOPs support quality, efficiency, and compliance across the entire Virginia Commmonwealth University/Virginia Commonwealth University Health clinical research enterprise.

In 2017, the NYU Clinical and Translational Science Institute's Recruitment and Retention Unit created a Patient Advisory Council for Research (PACR) to provide feedback on clinical trials and health research studies.

The Principal INvestigator Development and Resources (PINDAR) program was developed at the NYU-H+H Clinical and Translational Science Award (CTSA) hub in response to a perceived need for focused good clinical practice (GCP) training designed specifically for principal investigators (PIs) performing human subject research.

Guidance for partners and collaborators to communicate about N3C to internal and external audiences. This document contains approved messaging from NCATS to assist with press releases and other outreach efforts.

The Rochester Epidemiology Project (REP) is a collaboration between health care providers in Minnesota and Wisconsin.

The CTSA Program Collaborative Data and Safety Monitoring Board (DSMB) Workgroup identified a need to provide guidance, training and resources in DSMB practices for investigator-initiated research studies.

ReGARDD provides academic researchers with the regulatory tools and resources necessary to successfully navigate the pathway from discovery to clinical implementation of new drugs, biologics and medical devices.

The Translational Science Benefits Model (TSBM) is a framework designed to support institutional assessment of clinical and translational research outcomes to measure clinical and community health impacts beyond bibliometric measures.

A comprehensive guide to help anyone involved with the CTSA Program host their own successful Un-Meeting. The Guide includes elements such as logisitc planning, identifying your team, promotion and communication best practices, budgeting templates and more. 

Katie Bode-Lang, Director of Education and Quality Management, Office for Research Protections at Penn State, covers the NIH definition of Clinical Trials in 15 minutes.

Evaluation metrics for biostatistical and epidemiological collaborations
Rubio DM, Del Junco DJ, Bhore R, Lindsell CJ, Oster RA, Wittkowski KM, Welty LJ, Li YJ, Demets D; Biostatistics, Epidemiology, and Research Design (BERD) Key Function Committee of the Clinical and Translational Science Awards (CTSA) Consortium.

Principles of Community Engagement (Second Edition) provides public health professionals, health care providers, researchers, and community-based leaders and organizations with both a science base and practical guidance for engaging partners in projects that may affect them.

The NRMN provide researchers across all career stages in the biomedical, behavioral, clinical and social sciences with the evidence-based mentorship and professional development programming that emphasizes the benefits and challenges of diversity, inclusivity and culture. 

This video series will introduce key topics and ethical dilemmas in the responsible conduct of research. We hope it will prompt the exchange of information and discussion about research integrity principles among undergraduate/graduate students, post-doctoral fellows, scientists, and administrators.

An ad hoc committee of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine explored the issues of reproducibility and replication in scientific and engineering research, focusing on defining reproducibility and replicability, and examining the extent of non-reproducibility and non-replicability.  The resulting report offers definitions of reproducibility and replicability and examines

Clinical trials bridge the gap between research and patient care and help a medical discovery become a therapy. The clinical trial journey is long and complicated, with many steps along the way, and it can be challenging to describe this process to patients and research volunteers, or to colleagues who are unfamiliar with clinical research.