Penn State Clinical and Translational Science Institute provides infrastructure and resources that promote interdisciplinary research across campuses, accelerating the time it takes discoveries to benefit human health.
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Research Support Resources
Penn State Clinical and Translational Science Institute’s clinical research support includes a detailed guidebook for conducting clinical research at Penn State College of Medicine, recruitment tools, fully staffed clinical research centers in Hershey and State College, operational resources through Trial Innovation Network and more.
Penn State offers a variety of core facilities in University Park and at the College of Medicine in Hershey.
REDCap (Research Electronic Data Capture) is a secure, web-based application designed to support data capture for research studies. REDCap is maintained by the REDCap Consortium, which comprises more than 600 institutional partners, including Penn State.
Understanding how to best reach your intended study population and effectively communicate to those individuals about your research are important first steps in recruitment and retention efforts. Penn State Clinical and Translational Science Institute (CTSI) offers a variety of resources to assist study teams with these efforts.
This Recruitment and Retention Toolkit provides:
- evidence for how to successfully recruit and retain participants in research studies.
- recruitment tools and templates for teams to access and tailor for their specific project need
Community Health Equity & Engagement Research (CHEER) Toolkits
These toolkits are available for researchers and for community members.
The Team Science Toolbox is a set of tools and resources for forming, launching and maintaining research teams, assembled by the institute’s Community and Collaboration Core.
The toolbox tailors content to novices of team science and provides practical, pertinent team knowledge that addresses specific and common team needs and assessment methods.
Through the National COVID Cohort Collaborative (N3C), researchers studying COVID-19 are able to access an innovative analytics platform that contains clinical data from the electronic health records of people who were tested for the novel coronavirus or who have had related symptoms.
The Accrual to Clinical Trials (ACT) Network is a real-time platform for researchers to explore and validate the feasibility for clinical studies across the NCATS Clinical and Translational Science Award consortium. ACT helps researchers design and complete clinical studies and is secure, HIPAA-compliant and IRB-approved.