Principles of Community Engagement (Second Edition), introduced in 2011 by the National Institutes of Health National Center for Research Resources, provides public health professionals, health care providers, researchers, and community-based leaders and organizations with the theoretical framework and practical guidance for engaging partners in projects to advance the health of our communities.

The Mentorship Advisory Group will advise both mentors and protégés throughout the University as to mentorship best practices, serve as a mediating body to resolve challenges that may arise in the mentorship relationship, and to aid protégés in networking and identifying additional mentors that may be required as their careers and programs of investigation evolve.

If you have been in a rewarding mentorship relationship, know a colleague who's expertise would benefit the group, or if you have a passion for developing protégés, consider a nomination to the CCTS Mentorship Advisory Group.

Read more about the mentorship program on the website. Nominations and questions can be sent to Stephanie Vecchiarelli.

Each award provides clinical and translational research training and career development, stipend, research and travel expenses, and tuition awards. In addition, the CCTS will offer the awardees support services to further advance their clinical/translational research careers. Awardees have a team of mentors to help guide them through their research projects.

View the recipients and their topics of research

The Summer Research Experience Program (SREP), hosted by the Ohio State University Center for Clinical and Translational Science (OSU CCTS) and funded by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, wrapped up its third and final year on Thursday, July 28th with a poster session.

Ten students from Columbus City Schools' Eastmoor Academy and Northland High School participated in the seven-week long program. The participants, all of whom are exposed to biomedical curriculum at their schools, were matched with an investigator based on their area of interest. Participants participated in research across The Ohio State University campus and COSI.

Read more about the SREP on the CCTS website.

Whether you are starting from scratch with your research idea or need help taking your established study to the next level, the 2011 Clinical Research Conference has something for you. Participants will hear from nationally recognized speakers from the FDA and NIH and will be able to choose between Ethics and Regulatory tracks.

The conference will be held at Stecker Auditorium at Nationwide Children's Hospital on Friday, October 21, 2011. For more information or to register, visit the Nationwide Children's Hospital website.

The annual Personalized Health Care National Conference will now be renamed the Johanna and Ralph DeStefano Personalized Health Care Conference thanks to the support of the DeStefano Family.

The conference will bring together academic leaders, industry experts, government policy makers and healthcare providers from around the nation to discuss the latest developments in personalized medicine research and the challenges of translating these discoveries into clinical practice.

To raise awareness of P4 Medicine within the OSUMC research community, the Center for Personalized Health Care is asking for submissions of artistic science images for a competition to be held during the Personalized Health Care Conference, October 6-7^th. Please contact Regina Dudzik for more on the contest rules.

For more information about the conference, take a look at the conference website.