Our Mission

Established in 2013, the Oklahoma Clinical and Translational Science Institute serves as a catalyst for clinical and translational research that improves health and healthcare for underserved and underrepresented populations, to provide training and infrastructure to help junior investigators to launch independent research careers, and to expand the opportunities of IDeA states and Oklahoma communities to participate in research that improves the health of our residents. 

Oklahoma Shared Clinical and Translational Resources

OSCTR is Oklahoma's NIH-funded IDeA-CTR that provides resources, information, and training to help individuals or communities involved in performing clinical and translational research in the state

Oklahoma Primary Healthcare Improvement Cooperative

 

OPHIC is the implementation science arm of a statewide network to help improve healthcare delivery assisting primary care practices to adopt evidence-based best practices for the care of their patients.

OCTSI Clinical Research Unit

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The OCTSI CRU assists medical providers to identify and conduct clinical research opportunities in Oklahoma.

ECHO Grant Awarded to OUHSC

The OCTSI has partnered with the OUHSC Department of Pediatrics and been awarded a grant from the National Institutes of Health to develop the Oklahoma Pediatric Clinical Trial Network. This network will be part of the IDeA States Pediatric Clinical Trials Network that is participating in the Environmental Impacts of Child Health Outcomes (ECHO) Program to effectively investigate the impacts of environmental exposures from the womb through later years in a child’s life. The Principal Investigator of this award is Dr. Paul Darden, Chief of General and Community Pediatrics at OUHSC.

Listening Session for AI/AN Inclusion in All of Us Program

The Southern Plains Tribal Health Board, the Oklahoma delegation from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Tribal Advisory Committee, and the All of Us Research Program are hosting a listening session on Tuesday, October 22, 2019 in Oklahoma City, OK.

The All of Us Research Program, part of NIH, has a simple mission: to speed up health research breakthroughs and help foster an era of precision medicine for all.

What: The goals for this listening session are to:

New Pilot Grant RFA Released

The Oklahoma Clinical and Translational Science Institute (OCTSI) and Oklahoma Shared Clinical and Translational Resources (OSCTR) is soliciting applications for its Clinical and Translational Research Pilot (CTRP) Grants Program.

Applications are due August 9, 2019

More information can be found at http://osctr.ouhsc.edu/pilots2019

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Recent Publications

Pilot implementation and qualitative evaluation of a financial hardship screening among Native American patients with cancer

Support Care Cancer. 2024 Nov 15;32(12):792. doi: 10.1007/s00520-024-08995-1.

ABSTRACT

PURPOSE: Native American (NA) patients with cancer are at increased risk of financial hardship due to lack of private health insurance coverage, medical comorbidities, and higher poverty rates. We aimed to implement and evaluate a pilot financial hardship screening (FHS) program among NA patients with cancer.

Evaluating COVID-19 vaccine effectiveness during pre-Delta, Delta and Omicron dominant periods among pregnant people in the U.S.: Retrospective cohort analysis from a nationally sampled cohort in National COVID Collaborative Cohort (N3C)

BMJ Public Health. 2024 Jul;2(1):e000770. doi: 10.1136/bmjph-2023-000770. Epub 2024 Jun 3.

ABSTRACT

OBJECTIVES: To evaluate the effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccinations (initial and booster) during pre-Delta, Delta, and Omicron dominant periods among pregnant people via (1) COVID-19 incident and severe infections among pregnant people who were vaccinated vs. unvaccinated and (2) post-COVID-19 vaccination breakthrough infections and severe infections among vaccinated females who were pregnant vs. non-pregnant.

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