Blogs
Christopher P. Austin, MD - Director, National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences
Christopher P. Austin, MD - Director, National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences
One of the many difficulties of COVID-19 is knowing who has had it. Not everyone who is infected develops symptoms, and not everyone who has symptoms gets a diagnostic test for the presence of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19. But knowing how many people in a community have been infected is critical for understanding the spread of the virus and how long people may remain protected after infection.
Amy (Nordo) Cramer, MMCi, RN, CPHQ - Co-chair of the Vulcan Steering Committee and serves in global product strategic partnerships at Pfizer
HL7 recently announced the launch of its newest FHIR Accelerator, Project Vulcan, which seeks to use its widely recognized data exchange standards to help health care researchers more effectively acquire, exchange and use data in translational and clinical research.
Mike G. Kurilla, MD, PhD - Director of NCATS Clinical Innovation
As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to rampage across the globe and now some nations previously lauded for their infection control practice are seeing a resurgence, along with emerging science suggesting not only a very low infectious dose, but also efficient asymptomatic transmission, the focus on COVID interventions both treatment and prevention is heating up.
Christopher P. Austin, MD - Director, National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences
A bedrock principle at NCATS is that translation is complete only when interventions reach and benefit all the individuals and communities that need them. This critical step of the translational process, referred to as Dissemination and Implementation (D&I), often is stalled by a lack of inclusion in clinical trials, hindering the development of effective new interventions and preventing existing ones from reaching the people for whom they were created.
Guest post by Susan Gregurick, PhD, Associate Director for Data Science and Director, Office of Data Strategy, NIH
NIH National Library of Medicine - Musings from the Mezzanine
Some Insights on the Roles and Uses of Generalist Repositories