CTSA Translational Steering Committee

1. CTSA Translational Steering Committee Mission Develop infrastructure to facilitate advancements of novel translational research and technologies through the CTSA consortium, in collaboration with NIH. Committee Leadership Chair: Geoff Ginsburg (Duke) Vice Chair: Alice Tarantal (UC Davis) Chair, Trans-NIH Staff Committee: William Martin (NIEHS) NIH Coordinators: Doug Sheeley (NCRR), Renee Joskow (NCRR), Jack Harding (NCRR) PI Liaisons: Frank Arnett (Texas), Ken Polonsky (Wash U) Committee Membership: 33 (will be 38) voting, 16 non-voting members from CTSAs (not limited) 37 NIH staff from 15 ICs

2. Consortium Governance & Organization Governance Manual available at http://ctsaweb.org/Docs/CTSA_Governance_Manual.pdf

3. CTSA Translational Steering Committee Administrative Support for the Committee Huda Aden Senior Consultant, Booz Allen Hamilton Email: aden_huda@bah.com Phone: (301) 838-3700 Committee Meetings Monthly web meetings of the full committee: updates, information Monthly meetings of NIH Staff Committee Monthly exec team teleconference: agendas, coordination Web Resources CTSA Wiki Ctsaweb.org Online Tutorials for the web and the wiki https://www.ctsawiki.org/wiki/display/CTSAMain/CTSA+Web+Systems+Information+and+Tutorials

4. CTSA Translational Steering Committee Projects Informatics Resource Web Presence Translational Resource Database Goal: Searchable database of publicly available CTSA resources For T1 research Federated Biobank Database Goal: Federated database of CTSA-associated biological repositories Pediatric Rare Disease Biobank Database CTSA Imaging Working Group RSNA Support (Radiological Society of North America) Core Resources Imaging Informatics Clinical Trials Education Pathways of Translation Goal: Searchable map of T1 pathways and resources Workshop: Decision-making in Translational Research Goal: Consensus view of needs and priorities for T1 infrastructure, expertise, and resource access NCI Translational Research Work Group NIH IC – CTSA Accelerator Goal: Accelerate leveraging of CTSA infrastructure by NIH programs Translational Technology Rounds Goal: Archived webinars on T1 technologies Translational Technology Training Goal: Crossover training of clinical and translational researchers

5. CTSA Translational Steering Committee • Summary I. Committee Projects • T1 Resource Database • Seven CTSA sites (Columbia, Duke, UC Davis, Oregon, UCSF, Penn, Yale) are working on pilot T1 resource database, which will expand to accommodate the entire consortium. This effort is being coordinated with the Informatics Working Group. • Federated Database for CTSA Biobank Consortium • This is related to the T1 Resource Database above, and the Informatics WG infrastructure being developed. The project will consolidate biobank resources across the CTSA Biobank Consortium to increase sample coordination, management, sharing, and awareness of sample availability. This effort will be coordinated with the Pediatrics Rare Disease Biobank project. • Pathways of Translation • The project will develop a dynamically evolving map of the component tasks and decision points of pathways for translational research; a guide in developing similar programs. It will inform the community about specific principles, institutional characteristics or individual factors that permit development and evolution of successful translational programs. The project will leverage the efforts of the NCI Translational Research Working Group. Lynn Matrisian (Vanderbilt) leads the NCI TRWG. • NIH Accelerator for Establishing Translational Research Projects • Linking CTSA investigators with T1-specific resources and programs; facilitating access to CTSA T1 resources for other NIH programs through presentations, outreach, solicitation of ideas from ICs. • Workshop: Decision-Making in Translational Research – Winter 2009 • This workshop will be focused on understanding the critical decision points in T1 research projects and identifying the resources and expertise necessary for each aspect of the process. Planning Committee: Jack Harding (NCRR), Michelle Broido (Pitt), David Robertson (Vanderbilt), Carolyn Meltzer (Emory). • II. CTSA Imaging Working Group (http://www.rsna.org/Research/ctsa.cfm) • The CTSA Imaging Working Group is an independent committee sponsored by the TSC. This group is directed toward advancing imaging technologies and making them more useful in translational research. • Bi-monthly conference calls • Sub-committees to explore collaborative projects in Core Resources, Imaging Informatics, Clinical Trials, and Education • Meetings at American College of Radiology Imaging Network meeting (Oct ‘08) and RSNA (Dec ’08)