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WELCOME TO SW CACTI

To improve and advance health in the United States Southwest region, the University of Arizona and the University of New Mexico (UNM) have partnered to form the Southwest Center for Advancing Clinical and Translational Innovation (SW CACTI) to remove barriers to translational science, accelerate clinical translational innovation, and advance health equity.

This collaborative initiative conducts translational science that eliminates obstacles to clinical and translational research, speeds the development of impactful innovations, and enhances the quality and reach of healthcare solutions across to improve health across the Southwest. SW CACTI strengthens the research environment by expanding access to modern training platforms, research resources and services, and establishing structured career development pathways for clinical research professionals, ensuring a highly skilled workforce equipped to meet the region’s unique health needs.

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MISSION

The mission of SW CACTI is to accelerate clinical and translational innovation by building a skilled workforce, engaging communities, and delivering cutting-edge research and training that address the unique health challenges of the Southwest.

We will accelerate our effectiveness and meaningfully advance the vision of SW CACTI and the NCATS CTSA Program by achieving measurable goals and objectives for a thriving clinical & translational science (CTS) environment through these Specific Aims:

1. Discover scientific and operational CTS innovations within the SW CACTI partnership and adopt externally developed innovations supported by new cross-cutting workgroups in key areas that intersect with and augment the scientific, outreach, and training activities of the CTSA consortium.
2. Engage and serve Southwest communities through people- and patient-centric strategies and CTS experimental approaches that identify, employ, and disseminate best practices for clinical & translational research (CTR), multidisciplinary workforce development, and community outreach.
3. Provide cutting-edge research resources and services to address vital needs and critical barriers and to catalyze innovations across the multiple stages of CTS.
4. Expand innovative CTS training platforms with a range of opportunities across multiple workforce development areas, including a clinical research staff professional career pathway program that facilitates high-quality CTS/R and addresses clinical and biomedical challenges unique to our region.

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VISION

The vision of SW CACTI is to create and promote a thriving, unified research environment within the CTSA Program framework that accelerates Clinical and Translational Science innovation locally, regionally, and nationally to more efficiently advance individual and community health across the U.S. Southwest.

Our visionary partnership will address common regional health concerns, including: (1) disproportionately burdensome conditions affecting rural populations, and (2) unique geography, and barriers to quality healthcare access. Doing so demands a skilled clinical and translational research workforce, which we have carefully cultivated at our institutions and will continue to grow through SW CACTI. Along with our respective institutional leadership, we are committed to creating, monitoring, and maintaining successful, responsible, easily accessible research environments with an ethos of collaboration. We are positioned to develop, uptake, and efficiently disseminate innovative clinical & translational science solutions and trainings across the national CTSA consortium.

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Cite the Grant: This project is supported by an award from the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences, National Institutes of Health under grant number UM1TR005466.
Link the Grant: To your publication in NCBI My Bibliography (Pandhi, Radovick; PIs)