IndianaCTSIACCELERATING CLINICAL ANDTRANSLATIONAL RESEARCH

The Indiana CTSI HUB

Bill BarnettDirector, Information Infrastructures,

Indiana CTSI

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IndianaCTSIACCELERATING CLINICAL ANDTRANSLATIONAL RESEARCH

What is the Indiana CTSI?

• The Indiana Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute

• Translational = translating basic to pre-clinical and clinical research to products and therapies that improve health outcomes

• One of 46 Clinical and Translational Science Awards (CTSA) across the country.

• A collaboration of the IU School of Medicine, IU Bloomington, Purdue, and Notre Dame

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CTSA/CTSI Goals

• Build national clinical and translational research capability

• Provide training and improve career development of clinical and translational scientists

• Enhance consortium-wide collaborations

• Improve the health of our communities and the nation

• Advance T1 translational research to move basic laboratory discoveries and knowledge into clinical testing

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How do we develop HUB services?We determine needs, then take a least cost, rapid development approach

to developing HUB tools and services to meet those needs:

1. We prefer to use existing HUB components or Joomla! software Extensions (4699 as of 4/12/2010).

2. We then look for existing open source Web 2.0 applications we can easily plug into the Joomla! (eg., HUB) framework.

3. We then adapt existing non Web 2.0 applications into the HUB

4. If all else fails, we develop our own Joomla! Extensions or applications.

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HUB Accomplishments for Years 1 and 2

• Put Clinical Trials Listings on the HUB

• Added PubMed and IUSM faculty publications into integrated search (IU grants coming next)

• Developed a Grants Management Tool for internal grant programs

• Put the Project Development Teams (PDTs) Online

• Developed a web presence for CHEP

• Put the Indiana CTSI Cores online (the TTR Service Cores)

• Provided Discussion Forum, Form, and Survey Tools

• Authentication through Federated Identity with 6 other institutions (including NIH)

• Redesigned the home page to improve usability (more coming)

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Current HUB Projects(partially funded by a CTSI ARRA Supplement)

• Federated Identity support for all applications

• Ontology tagging for all content

• Alfresco Share Private Group Collaboration

• i2iconnect.org Industry Partner Discovery Tool

• REDCap (Research Electronic Data Capture) from Vanderbilt

• OpenMRS Patient Recruitment

• Online submission of next year’s annual report via forms

• Next phase of usability improvements

• Hosting to be moved to IU cyberinfrastructure

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Current HUB Projects: Cyberinfrastructure• Federated Identity support for all applications

• Ontology tagging for all content

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Current HUB Projects: Alfresco Share

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Private Group Collaboration

• Based on expressed need of researchers at different institutions to privately share documents for grant proposals and projects

• Will support ePHI data sets

• An open source product used by over 50 organizations internationally

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HUB Prototype: i2iconnect.org

Discover Industry Licensors

• Database of Industry licensing reps by specialization and disease

• Partnership with Cook Medical, IURTC, IHIN, and Biocrossroads

• Currently over 1,000 names in the database

• Business model in development.

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The Indiana CTSI HUB Team

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• Bill Barnett (Lead)

• Anurag Shankar (Technical Lead)

• Mike McLennan (HUB Architect)

• Lilith Reeves (Chief Scientist, Indiana CTSI)

• Bob Davis (Usability and Data Management)

• Joe Hunt (Evaluation)

• Samantha Scahill (Content Management)

• Jere Odell (Education and Bioethics)

• Elaine Skopelja (Library Informatics)

• Beth Whipple (Library Informatics)

• Craig Sanders (Development)

• Jim Mullen (Development)

• Michael Grobe (Development)

• David Altenhof (Development)