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The new clinical and translational research track is a graduate-level training track offering masters degrees and Ph.D.’s to interested health professionals with advanced degrees in medicine, nursing or other allied health fields.
In the new track, which will be administered through the Medical Sciences Interdepartmental Area (MSIA) Graduate Program, researchers will focus on complementing their knowledge of their respective fields of specialty with skills in conducting sound and ethical clinical research to become principal investigators, said Fausto Loberiza Jr., M.D., associate professor in the College of Medicine, who is coordinating the track.
The track is a one or two-year program of course work and includes an intensive mentored research project.
In the course, researchers go through a training process with a cohort that will expose them to the concepts and methods that emphasize multidisciplinary approaches to clinical and translational research.
“It is our hope that this will encourage researchers to cooperate with others from disciplines and colleges outside of their own — a practice which is helpful and often necessary in translating research,” Dr. Loberiza said.
UNMC researchers are and will continue to conduct laboratory research that has the potential to positively affect many people, said Jennifer Larsen, M.D., associate dean for clinical research in the College of Medicine. This program will get these findings to the people that need them, she said.
“The bottom line is many people stand to benefit from our scientists improving their skills of taking their research from the labs into the clinics,” Dr. Larsen said. “Becoming better at translating research will help UNMC advance on the path toward becoming a world-class academic health sciences center.”