COVID-19 Newsroom

COVID-19 Newsroom2023-07-18T10:25:14-04:00

Health research has always been incredibly important, but maybe never more important than right now.

Every solution for every disease, whether common or rare, anticipated or unanticipated, since the beginning of time, has come as a result of the effort of medical scientists – typically translational scientists – who form ideas in their research labs, test them, and then “translate” them for use in people who are sick. However with the onslaught of the COVID-19 pandemic, never has the spotlight shone so brightly on translational scientists, who are being counted on to stop and prevent what seems like today, as a seemingly unstoppable illness.

The Indiana Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute (CTSI) is a partnership among the leading research universities of Indiana University, Purdue University and the University of Notre Dame. Below you can find some of the ways we are working together to help stop this silent killer from taking one more life in Indiana and beyond. If you have additional ideas about ways we can help you, your family, or your community, please contact the appropriate person or group from the following information.

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COVID vaccine Gleaners drive

Indiana CTSI TL1 Postdoc leads partnership to give COVID vaccines to Hoosiers experiencing food insecurity

Omolola Adeoye-Olatunde, PharmD, MS, is the principal investigator for a grant supporting a new collaboration with Purdue University Center for Health Equity and Innovation (CHEqI), Walgreens and Gleaners Food Bank Read More
Posted on July 12, 2021
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The importance of accountability for clinical trial diversity

Lauren Nephew, MD, a 2018 KL2 Awardee through the Indiana Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute (CTSI), was recently invited to write a commentary about clinical trial diversity for EClinicalMedicine, an Read More
Posted on July 12, 2021
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Valuable COVID-19 resources available for researchers

As the National Institutes of Health (NIH) continues to release new funding opportunities in support of COVID-19 research, the Indiana Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute (CTSI) wants to make you Read More
Posted on January 22, 2021

Early investment by Indiana CTSI Project Development Team continues to pay off amidst pandemic

Researchers at Purdue University, a partner institution of the Indiana Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute (CTSI), are developing an in-home COVID-19 test that would allow immediate results by relying on Read More
Posted on December 15, 2020
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Indiana CTSI prototypers continue to innovate during COVID-19 pandemic

Since the first case of COVID-19 appeared in the state, the Indiana Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute (CTSI) has taken swift action to protect medical workers and staff from the Read More
Posted on December 14, 2020
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Indiana CTSI and partners printing thousands of medical supplies to address COVID-19 shortages

Since launching the 3D printing effort in April, the Indiana Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute (CTSI) and its partners have printed thousands of pieces of personal protective equipment (PPE) for Read More
Posted on May 20, 2020
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All IN for Health aids in successful recruitment for recent COVID-19 study

The TACTIC study (Tracking Asymptomatic COVID-19 Through Indianapolis Communities), recently launched by IU School of Medicine and Riley Hospital for Children at IU Health, used the All IN for Health research volunteer Read More
Posted on May 20, 2020
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Indiana CTSI, IU Grand Challenge Precision Health Initiative join forces to facilitate COVID-19 research, survey completion requested

The Indiana Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute (CTSI) and the  IU Grand Challenge Precision Health Initiative are establishing COVID-19 as a special disease state within precision health. As a first step, all researchers Read More
Posted on May 14, 2020
FEATURED EXPERTS

Aaron Carroll, MDAaron Carroll MD, professor of pediatrics at Indiana University School of Medicine and the Regenstrief Institute; health columnist for the New York Times. Dr. Carroll is director of career development, education and research training programs at the Indiana CTSI.

Learn more about Dr. Carroll.

James Wood MDJames Wood, MD, MSCI, is an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at the Indiana University School of Medicine in the Ryan White Center for Pediatric Infectious Diseases and Global Health and Pediatric & Adolescent Clinical Effectiveness Research divisions.

Learn more about Dr. Wood.

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