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What Is NJ ACTS? What is Clinical and Translational The Research?

Alliance for The New Jersey Alliance for Clinical and Translational Science (NJ ACTS) Translational research transforms Clinical and represents a consortium of partners and discoveries in the laboratory to new

affiliates with the common goal of treatments and biomarkers to improve human

Translational Science increasing the quality and quantity of health or cure disease. For more about NJ ACTS: health-related research in New Jersey. https://njacts.rbhs.rutgers.edu The NJ ACTS partner institutions, New Clinical research specifically involves testing Jersey Institute of Technology [NJIT], better ways to treat, prevent, diagnose, and , and Rutgers understand human disease. People volunteer Or contact: University), have a legacy of collaboration to participate in carefully conducted

enhanced by their proximity and unique investigations. Clinical research includes

Reynold A. Panettieri, Jr., M.D. expertise. clinical trials that test new treatments and Director therapies as well as long-term natural history

Rutgers Institute for Translational Medicine and studies, which provide valuable information Science Led by the Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences, NJ ACTS includes the New about how disease and health progress. [email protected] Jersey CTSA Hub, two schools of

William F. Jester Jr., B.S. medicine, schools of nursing, dental

Director of Administration, NJ ACTS science and public health, hospitals, Rutgers Institute for Translational Medicine and community health centers, outpatient Science practices, pharmaceutical and [email protected] biotechnology companies, insurers and policymakers.

What Is the NJ ACTS Mission? New Jersey Alliance for Clinical and

Translational Science (NJ ACTS), an NIH To advance translational science across the CTSA consortium by training the next generation Reynold A. Panettieri, MD of researchers and by providing scientific NJ ACTS Program Director infrastructure for understanding the Vice for heterogeneity of disease and of response to Translational Medicine and interventions in diverse individuals,

Science communities and populations. NJ ACTS is Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey 89 French St., Suite 4201 particularly focused on the different ways New Bruns wick, NJ 0890 1 diseases manifest and how different people

Clinical and translational research spans much of the research related to human health. Clinical and Translational Research in NJ

I’m a patient or community member. I am a faculty member at Rutgers, NJIT What are the different components of Can I get involved? or Princeton. How do I get involved and NJ ACTS? what do I get from NJ ACTS? Absolutely! NJ ACTS wants to create There are 14 cores, each dedicated to community partnerships to better NJ ACTS cores provide infrastructure, developing infrastructure and tools for understand the health concerns of our tools and services that will enable faculty faculty, trainees and staff. Some, like diverse communities. This will help us to perform clinical research, design and Pilots, provide seed money grants, while chose issues of relevance for our conduct clinical trials. Pilot grant others, such as Informatics and Special research programs. programs seed new projects and/or Populations, are developing tools to help provide platforms to bolster pre-existing faculty access clinical datasets. The What is a CTSA? For more information on our projects into new directions. These Institutional Development Award community-based participatory programs encourage collaboration across supports young faculty as they develop Awarded by the National Center for research programs and partnerships, Princeton, NJIT and Rutgers and with the their research programs, and the Advancing Translational Sciences, part contact: 848-932-0219. community or other partners. The Career Institutional Training Award provides of the National Institutes of Health, a Development Award provides support doctoral and postdoctoral Clinical and Translational Sciences and training for junior faculty to develop fellows interested in careers in Award or CTSA creates a series of Hubs Help us, help others! Studies need their research programs, and Training translational research with support and that work together to improve the volunteers like you to participate in Grants support pre-docs and post-docs training. translational research process to get clinical and behavioral studies. Some committed to translational research. more treatments to more patients more trials require patients with a specific Cores and leaders include:

quickly. The hubs collaborate locally and disease or trait, while others want Reynold Panettieri, MD,

regionally to catalyze innovation in health volunteers. I am a clinician. Does NJ ACTS benefit Director Leadership training, research tools and processes. me? Mark Einstein, MD, Associate Director Informatics Frank Sonnenberg, MD Why is Clinical and Translational Information on clinical studies Of course. Do you have questions about Community Shawna Hudson, PhD Research Important in NJ? available at Rutgers is available at: how to get involved in clinical trials? NJ Engagement Alfred Tallia, MD,MPH ACTS can help. Are you surprised by the Collaborative Science Edmund Lattime, PhD Workforce New Jersey has been a major global hub http://cro.rbhs.rutgers.edu/findclinicaltrial.html heterogeneity of response of your Lauren Aleksunes, PhD Development for biopharmaceutical industry for more patients to certain treatments…ever Pilot Grants Chen Liu, MD, PhD You can also volunteer through than a century, and leads the nation with wonder why? NJ ACTS is especially Biostatistics Jason Roy, PhD ResearchMatch, a national study 139 biopharma manufacturing facilities. interested in the heterogeneity of disease Regulatory Céline Gélinas, PhD volunteer system at: Special Populations Steven Crystal, PhD Although New Jersey is the most densely and response to therapy and can link you Trial Acceleration and Sunanda Gaur, MD with scientists to pursue these questions. populated and most diverse state, and www.researchmatch.org Recruitment Core Howard Kipen, MD, MPH should be the perfect place to recruit Biomarker Core Maria Gennaro, PhD Jonathan Cohen, MD, patients for clinical trials, New Jersey Machine Learning ranks only 15th in clinical research. NJ Non-faculty/staff images used are licensed courtesy of Getty PhD Images. All licensed material is being used for illustrative Career Development Sally Radovick, MD ACTS aims to change that. purposes only; any person depicted in the licensed material is a model. Training Grant Kathleen Scotto, PhD