The primary objective of this initiative is the further development of enabling clinical research support platforms, clinical trial activity, research training and education centered on clinical sciences and community engagement.  This initiative includes components relevant to health equity and full engagment of the communities that we serve with a special emphasis on health care challenges and quality of life in urban environments such as found in southeast Michigan and the City of Detroit.  This thematic enabling platfrom is under the direction of Philip Levy, M.D. as the Assistant Vice President for Translational Sciences and Clinical Research Innovation in the Office of the Vice President for Research.  

The initiative includes a Clinical Research Support Center as well as a biorepository platform and support for biostatistics, epidemiolgy and clinical study design.  Housed in the Integrative Biosciences Center (IBio), the resources for the initiative in Translational Sciences and Clinical Research Innovation serve as a hub for campus wide clinical research activity aimed at improving health and health care for the region.

With an eye towards dissemination and implementation, one overarching goal of this effort is to work with local community advisory boards to determine the focus and direction of the research itself, helping to ensure that information and discoveries are accessible, applicable, and available to community members.   Key guiding principles and goals include the following.

• Aligned with, engaged in, and informed by the community as to its research efforts
• Positioned to guide development of grants, and early to late phase drug and device studies, from single to multicenter
• Resourced to manage and conduct multi-site clinical trials, inclusive of regulatory, in both inpatient and outpatient settings
• Able to design and conduct epidemiological studies including prospective and retrospective registries
• Prepared to collect, catalogue, and store samples in a biorepository
• Provision of statistical and data analysis resources

CONTACT INFORMATION

Philip Levy, M.P.H, M.D.
Associate Chair of Clinical Research and Professor
Department of Emergency Medicine
Assistant Vice President for Translational Sciences and Clinical Research Innovation

plevy@med.wayne.edu
(313) 993-8558

Translational Sciences and Clinical Research Innovation organizational structure

• Aligned with, engaged in, and informed by the community as to its research efforts
• Positioned to guide development of grants, and early to late phase drug and device studies, from single to multicenter
• Resourced to manage and conduct multi-site clinical trials, inclusive of regulatory, in both inpatient and outpatient settings
• Able to design and conduct epidemiological studies including prospective and retrospective registries
• Equipped to compile, curate, and analyze data
• Prepared to collect, catalogue, and store samples in a biorepository
• Capable of performing complex biostatistics including population-level genomic and epigenomic analyses