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Translational Research Resources Offices

The TRRO will provide resource utilization across the CTSI, including grant writing, assistance establishing collaborators and building a research team, interactions with the Institutional Review Board (IRB), and linking investigators to resources and technologies in support of their research.

The role of the TRRO will be to facilitate the development of an approved protocol and project and to help implement the project utilizing the collaboration of multiple investigators and institutions.

Translational Research Units (TRU) at Froedtert, Children's Hospital of Wisconsin, and the VA Medical Center:

  • The Translational Research Units offer space to conduct ambulatory studies with nursing support
  • Adult TRU - Tom P. Aufderheide, MD, FACEP, (414) 805-6452, TAufderh@mcw.edu
  • Pediatric TRU - David T. Wyatt, MD, (414) 266-6740, dwyatt@mcw.edu
  • Geriatrics TRU - Ann K. Rosenthal, MD, (414) 805-7024, arosenthal@mcw.edu
  • Mobile TRU - Ahmed H. Kissebah, MD, PhD (415) 456-6815, akisseba@mcw.edu

Adult and Pediatric TRU's Body Composition Units

  • Bionutrition research kitchen and nutritionist
  • DEXA
  • Harpenden Stadiometer
  • Xitron bioimpedance spectro analyzer
  • Peapod and Bodpod systems to assess body composition

GI Manometry Lab

  • State-of-the-art manometric, PH recording and video endoscopic probes with video fluoroscopy equipment

Sleep Research Lab

  • Sleep research unit available: see description in TRU

Exercise Physiology Lab

  • Includes cardio pulmonary stress testing with maximum oxygen consumption and ventilation measurements
  • Treadmill
  • 12-lead ECG stress testing equipment
  • Oxygen analyzer
  • CO2 analyzer
  • Dell computer system
  • Metabolic measurements software

Translational Cardiac and Vascular Function Unit

  • GE Vivid 7 Echocardiograph and 3S Probe with analyses using the GEQ analyses software
  • Three separate vascular ultrasound probes, including and Endo Path 2000 tonometry unit for assessment of endothelial function

Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging

  • 1.5 TESLA fMRI Unit
  • 3 TESLA fMRI Unit
  • Magnetoencephalography (MEG) to directly measure neural activity in the brain using SQUID (superconducting quantum interference devices)

Listed below are several resources available to researchers at MCW. If you would like a resource added to this list, send an email to CTSI.

Bioethics Consulting Service

  • provides education, research, consultation, and community service related to bioethics

Bioinformatics Program Simon Twigger, PhD (414) 955-8802, simont@mcw.edu

  • The Bioinformatics support group will provide web 2.0 communication and collaboration tools to support translational research activities; will develop robust integrated clinical database platforms; as well as bioinformatics and clinical informatics for CTSI researchers; and will establish data standards and biomedical ontologies as a core competency and promote their use as a means to connect basic and clinical research data repositories.

Biomedical Resource Center (MCW access only)

Biostatistics Consulting Service

  • offers comprehensive statistical consulting, computing, and data entry services

Biostatistics John Klein, PhD, (414) 456-8379, klein@mcw.edu

  • Faculty and staff statisticians are available, each for an allocated portion of time which will provide the equivalent of statistical consultation with 1 1/2 to 2 full-time faculty and staff statisticians, to support clinical research projects.
  • The biostatistics key function will provide expert statistical support to investigators conducting clinical and translational research; will provide continuing education courses in biostatistics; and will perform original statistics research on projects in the clinical and translational program.

Epidemiology Data Service Center (EDSC)

  • centralized resource for secondary health and demographic data

Grants & Contracts (MCW Access Only)

  • provides services related to locating funding, preparing applications; serves liaisons to granting agencies

eBridge

  • This site allows the Medical College of Wisconsin (MCW) faculty and researcher staff to submit, track, report, and archive applications involving funding proposals as well as human subject and animal research conducted at MCW.  For MCW Institutional Review Boards (IRB) and the Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC), this site enables effective management of federal and local regulatory requirements by monitoring the flow of information and the associated activities and tasks for all submissions.

Research Ethics and Scientific Integrity Core

  • The MCW

Institutional Review Boards 

  • provides review of research dealing with human subjects

Technology Transfer Office

  • provides infrastructure for researchers to partner with various community funding sources

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