1. CTSI Matchmaking through UNYTE: Extending Researchers’ Reach 2017
Karen Vitale, MSEd Program Manager, GR-PBRN & UNYTE

2. UNYTE Translational Research Network
Director   
Gary Noronha, MD
Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine
 Program Manager
Karen Vitale, MSEd Center for Community Health
Administrative Assistant
Shelby Johnson Clinical & Translational Science Institute

3. UNYTE Mission & Vision
Mission:  UNYTE fosters transdisciplinary and trans-institutional collaborations and engages community and regional partners to demonstrate and disseminate methods and approaches to advance translational research.   Vision:   By 2020, UNYTE will be a replicable model environment for research across the translational spectrum, conducted by inter-institutional, transdisciplinary patient-and community-engaged teams.

4. UNYTE Member Institutions

5. UNYTE Member Current Federal HHS Funding
UNYTE Institution
Number of Federal Grants (FY 2016)
Amount of Federal Funding (FY 2016)
University of Rochester
439
$168,758,558
Cornell University
314
$143,337,281
University at Buffalo (SUNY)
167
$58,684,238
Roswell Park Cancer Institute
117
$34,431,399
Upstate Medical University (SUNY) 44
$14,060,794
Albany Medical College 36
$13,243,515
Wadsworth Center 28
$12,397,888
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute 23
$7,828,854
Binghamton University (SUNY)
$7,791,532
University at Albany (SUNY) 24
$7,178,442
Syracuse University 26
$6,024,648
Rochester Institute of Technology 7
$2,423,835
Bassett Healthcare Network 3
$2,030,014
Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences 1
$480,000
Trudeau Institute
$243,750
Guthrie Health System $0
Masonic Medical Research Laboratory
New York Chiropractic College
Totals
1258
$478,914,748

6. Resources
UNYTE has also developed a custom NIH RePORTER Database of NIH funded grants and contracts awarded to UNYTE institutions. The Research Project Database is an on-line, searchable inventory of research projects at UNYTE institutions. The information may help users find collaborators or mentors across UNYTE with the database search tools.

7. UNYTE Scientific Sessions
Purpose: To bring together researchers, clinical leaders, and data scientists from across UNYTE institutions to spark interdisciplinary collaborations in practice-based research, clinical innovation, patient engagement, and research recruitment. We will explore what research brings to the clinical enterprise, what clinical insights bring to research, and the power of the partnerships to inspire and focus health research for maximum impact.
Past Scientific Sessions
Upcoming Scientific Sessions
June Stay tuned
September 2017 Precision Medicine - Albany College of Pharmacy &Health Sciences
May 2014
UNYTE Resources and Projects Relevant to Neuroscience Research
May 2015
Hitting the Accelerator: Health Research Innovation through Data Science
December 2015
Transforming Population Health Research: Advances, New Methods, and Community Partnerships
April 2016
2nd Annual Rochester Global Health Symposium/UNYTE Scientific Session
November 2016
Accelerating Health Research Innovation through Partnerships with Primary Care

8. UNYTE Funding Opportunities
CTSI Pilot Studies Program – UNYTE Category
The UNYTE award category is intended to stimulate new interinstitutional collaborations in health research. Investigators are encouraged to develop an innovative, team-based approach to a problem in health research that reflects the particular strengths of the members and their institutions. I
Past awardees
Bernstein, Steven
Determining the interplay of Lymphoma Cells with its Microenvironment Using a Novel in Vivo Model
University at Buffalo
Chandra, Ankur
Regional Ultrasound Wall Strain Measurements to Predict Risk of Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm (AAA) rupture
Rochester Institute of Technology
Noyes, Ekaterina
Validity of Self-Reported Data for Studying Cognitive Problems and Depression
Burack, Richard
Regional stat tumor procurement to support studies of lymphoma
SUNY Upstate, Albany Medical College
Sparks, Janet
Protein kinase C activation and inhibition of VLDL triglyceride export defines a mechanism for development of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease
Bassett Research Institute
Wismueller, Axel W.E.
The Upstate New York Network for Collaborative Biomedical Imaging: Integration of Multimodality, Multispectral and Multidimensional Imaging Data for Breast Cancer Detection, Staging, and Response to Therapy Evaluation
SUNY Upstate

9. UNYTE Funding Opportunities (cont.)
NCATS R21 program (PAR ) Limited Competition: Exploratory CTSA Collaborative Innovation  Awards
Applications must involve investigators from at least 2 active CTSA institutions.
Purpose is to “support highly innovative, exploratory, collaborative research projects in the NCATS’ Clinical and Translational Science Award (CTSA) program, with the goal of assessing utility and feasibility of proposed innovation(s).”
Investigators may request a project period of up to two years. The combined budget for direct costs for the two year project period may not exceed $275,000. No more than $200,000 may be requested in any single year.

10. UNYTE/PBRN Nexus
We coordinate with two other UNYTE Partners’ Practice-Based Research Networks
SALT-NET at SUNY Upstate Medical
UNYNET at SUNY University at Buffalo

11. Contact us
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