Colorado Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus. We accelerate research to improve health.
Colorado, USA
Joined October 2010
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In 2025, the CCTSI delivered measurable impact, advancing innovative discoveries into improved patient care across Colorado. Read our Annual Report for program highlights and accomplishments from the past year.
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@TomFlaigMD, @ACCORDSResearch
Things are getting spooky at our Clinical Translational Research Center! 🎃 Our CTRC team provides exceptional patient care and supports complex research, but we think their Halloween decorating skills deserve a little recognition, too. 👻
📣 The 2027 CCTSI Community Engagement Pilot Grant RFA is open!
Awards of up to $30,000 support new and emerging community-academic research partnerships and research projects led by established partnerships.
⏰ LOI due Dec. 11.
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Learn how #AI can influence dementia care from CCTSI leader Matt DeCamp, MD, PhD, and CCTSI Clinical Faculty Scholars mentor Hillary Lum, MD, PhD.
How can #AI influence dementia care? 🧠 bit.ly/47V9wN8
In the U.S., dementia affects about one in 10 adults 65 and older. We asked two experts from the CU Anschutz Department of Medicine to weigh in on the benefits and potential pitfalls of incorporating AI into #dementia care.
Amanda Piquet, MD, FAAN, Associate Medical Director of our CTRC, led a clinical trial testing an experimental CAR T-cell therapy for stiff-person syndrome. Improvements in walking ability lasted a year after treatment.
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CCTSI program director, James Feinstein, MD, MPH, co-authored a @JAMA_current Viewpoint on why the #NIH should preserve opportunities for researchers with career development (K) awards to lead their own pilot clinical trials. 👉 buff.ly/aOfoEUR
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Interested in #AI and child health research? Join Pediatric Research Day on Oct. 29 at @CUAnschutz. Learn about #pediatric research happening across campus, connect with colleagues and hear from keynote speaker Matt DeCamp, MD, PhD. 📝 buff.ly/JgVCBwt
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A CCTSI pilot grant helped Achim Klug, PhD, gather data and secure #NIH funding to advance a potential new treatment for central auditory processing disorder. And he started a company to boot! The treatment is being tested in a #clinical trial. 👉 buff.ly/42QFnRI
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Last week, CCTSI leader @FamDocDon, presented the Ascona Prize at the 24th International Balint Congress in Denmark. The prize honors medical students' essays about meaningful patient relationships. The winners came from Brazil, Australia & Hungary. buff.ly/wyRJeYo
Interested in community-engaged research? Join the @ACCORDSResearch & CCTSI Community Engagement Forum to connect with researchers and community partners and learn practical strategies for designing, conducting, and sharing community-engaged research. 👉 buff.ly/fLLGCMn
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We’re kicking off our CCTSI Team Spotlight series with our Marketing and Communications team! Wendy, Cristine and Lily tell CCTSI’s stories of impact and promote programs and funding opportunities for researchers. We appreciate their creativity and passion for #SciComm!
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Impactful research conducted at a fellow CTSA Hub!
The dangers of opioid overdose continue after the event. NC TraCS Institute researchers are conducting a study to understand how post-overdose response teams can prevent overdose deaths. Read more about the study's goals: ow.ly/t0Ph50ZTzVX
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Proud to be part of a community that never quits! At the CCTSI, we help move research forward with the funding, training, and support researchers need to improve health and patient care. Check out CU Anschutz's latest ad, Dreamers Never Quit!
At #CUAnschutz, we push further because what lies beyond the limits of today could change someone’s tomorrow. Our teams are working toward possibilities that once seemed out of reach.
Dreamers never quit. ✨ Discover more at cuanschutz.edu/dreams
The CCTSI is this year’s OVCR volleyball champion! 🏐🏆 We ate ice cream, played volleyball and found out which coworkers are secretly competitive (spoiler: we’re keeping them on the team). Check out the photos to see just how giant the trophy is! 😄
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VZV, the virus that causes #chickenpox and #shingles may also play a role in other serious conditions. New research co-authored by past CCTSI Pilot Grant awardee Maria Nagel, MD, links VZV to stroke, vascular disease, vision loss, paralysis, and more. 👉 buff.ly/PUfGMDs
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CCTSI Pilot Projects lead to new diagnostic tools and treatments that improve healthcare. Nearly $7M in pilot #funding helped researchers secure over $131M in follow-on funding. We shared these results at an NIH @CCOS_CTSA meeting. Thank you to our program team and awardees!
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Hear from the 2026 Chancellor’s Distinguished Research Lectureship Award recipient Wendy Kohrt, PhD, as she shares insights from more than 30 years of research on exercise and bone health!
🗓️ Oct. 14
📍 Hensel Phelps West Auditorium
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Building an app, website, intervention, or educational resource? The new CCTSI Design & Dissemination Service can help with rapid prototyping, usability testing, co-design and more. Request a free design consultation: buff.ly/kdkRSI0
Scientists spend years learning how to do research. But who teaches them how to talk about it outside of academia?
Build those skills in our SciComm workshop series, Nov. 3, 10 & 17: buff.ly/3ekVuBn
Watch co-leader Aimee Pugh Bernard’s TEDx talk:buff.ly/6KwEhAg
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Could AI help speed up ophthalmology clinical trials? 👁️
Niranjan Manoharan, MD, and his team developed an AI tool that uses clinical data and retinal imaging to identify potential trial participants.
Read more below!
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From CAR T-cell therapy for rare neurological disorders to aging cats as a model for neurodegeneration, researchers covered a fascinating range of topics at the 14th Annual CU-CSU Summit on neurosciences last month. Don't miss the highlights! buff.ly/Lfz6gho
