Vanderbilt Institute for Clinical and Translational Research (VICTR) Archive — Page 6 of 7

July 19, 2016

Harrell to step down as chair of Biostatistics

Frank Harrell Jr., Ph.D., professor of Biostatistics and founding chair of Vanderbilt’s Department of Biostatistics in 2003, will step down as chair after the completion of a national search for his successor.

diverse group of adults
July 5, 2016

Vanderbilt establishes innovation center to boost demographic representation in clinical trial enrollment

Many clinical trials are stopped prematurely because they fail to recruit enough study participants. Vanderbilt University Medical Center has received a five-year, $14 million grant from the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences at the National Institutes of Health to address this.

speed bump sign
July 5, 2016

New NIH-funded center to study inefficiencies in clinical trials

Researchers at Vanderbilt University Medical Center and Duke Clinical Research Institute have received a major federal grant to study how multisite clinical trials of new drugs and therapies in children and adults can be conducted more rapidly and efficiently.

November 5, 2015

New awards honor contributions to translational research at VUMC

Two physician-scientist leaders at Vanderbilt University Medical Center were honored last week with newly created awards for helping to build and nurture Vanderbilt’s vibrant culture of clinical and translational research.

research default banner
November 5, 2015

Initiative speeds clinical trials contract negotiations

An initiative promoted by the Vanderbilt Institute of Clinical and Translational Research (VICTR) offers an opportunity to reduce by more than half the time it takes to negotiate clinical trial contracts.

blood draw
October 22, 2015

Revised regulations proposed for human subject research

Eighteen departments and agencies of the federal government have joined to propose revised regulations for scientific research involving human subjects.