The overall vision of the Rockefeller University Center for Clinical and Translational Science (CCTS), supported by the CTSA program, is to develop, demonstrate, and disseminate innovative programs so as to create a model clinical research enterprise built on rigor, responsible and transparent reporting, and scientific integrity to empower translation of paradigm-breaking discoveries into better human health. Our new initiatives are designed to: 1) ensure that all of our studies set the highest standards; 2) ensure that our trainees have the team science leadership skills needed for a career in translational science; and 3) enhance scientific rigor, reproducibility, and reporting. These new areas build on the infrastructure we have developed to integrate mechanistic science into community engagement, reach out to basic scientists, speed the development of health- enhancing products, and create an optimal training environment. Our specific aims are: 1. To provide a robust infrastructure to support the conduct of clinical investigation at the highest levels of participant safety, scientific rigor, bioethics, and regulatory compliance. We will enhance our multidisciplinary Translational Research Navigation (TRN) Program and our collaboration with Clinical Directors Network (CDN), a Practice Based Research Network of Community Health Centers, to ensure that our studies meet the highest standards of design, feasibility, method validity, and transparent reporting, supporting our active participation in the CTSA Trial Innovation Network. 2. To ensure that every discovery at Rockefeller has the best chance of improving human health. We will enhance our robust pipeline of programs to support basic and clinical investigators move their paradigm-breaking discoveries into new therapeutics by leveraging the resources of the Tri-Institutional Therapeutic Development Institute, the Robertson Therapeutic Development Fund, and the University affiliated biotechnology company, Bridge Medicines .3. To educate the entire research workforce team in conducting translational research at the highest levels of participant safety, scientific rigor, bioethics, and regulatory compliance. We will further enhance the multidisciplinary team science emphasis of our educational programs for KL2 Clinical Scholars, Clinical Research Nurses, basic scientists, and community clinicians, with a focus on our new Team Science Leadership training with the CTSA Hubs at Yale, University of Pennsylvania, and Columbia. 4. To study and improve the clinical research enterprise both at Rockefeller and nationally. We will continue to use the CCTS as a laboratory for investigating the clinical research enterprise itself and methods to improve it, including obtaining outcome data from research participants, enhancing rigor, reproducibility and reporting, speeding the evaluation of novel therapeutics via in-house formulation, and creating 'super teams' of CTSA Hubs to disseminate our model of community engagement harnessing basic mechanistic studies to address community-identified health needs. We will disseminate the results throughout the CTSA consortium and scientific community by publications, presentations, and active participation in CLIC and CD2H initiatives.

The Rockefeller University Center for Clinical and Translational Science is dedicated to improving human health by providing resources and personnel to support the conduct of the highest quality research to improve the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of human disease, as well as to inform and implement public health policy. It will also produce novel methods to improve both the scientific information obtained in the studies and the way in which the research is performed.