Mission, Vision and Goals of the PRCTRC
 

Vision:

The Puerto Rico Clinical & Translational Research Consortium will be a key element in the efforts to understand, define, and address health disparities in our population.

Mission:

The mission of the Puerto Rico Clinical & Translational Research Consortium is to create, develop, and support an integrated island-wide infrastructure and program dedicated to the conduct of clinical and translational research focused on health problems prevalent in a Hispanic population.

Goals:

1. Enhance and integrate existing infrastructure for clinical and translational research across Puerto Rico to support and expand Clinical and Translational Research in health disparities;
    

2. Enhance and support existing training and mentoring programs to increase the number of new minority investigators in Clinical and Translational Research;
    

3. Facilitate the translation of knowledge from the bench into the community by establishing a centralized program;
    

4. And encourage collaborations among basic, clinical, and social scientists and community networks and health programs.
   
    

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The project is supported by grant U54 RR 026139-01A1 (RCMI Clinical and Translational Research award, University of Puerto Rico Medical Sciences Campus) from the National Center for Research Resources (NCRR), a component of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Its contents are solely the responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official views of NCRR or NIH.

The Puerto Rico Clinical and Translational Research Consortium is a collaborative project of the the University of Puerto Rico Medical Sciences Campus, Universidad Central del Caribe and Ponce School of Medicine and Health Sciences.