The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and Bloomberg School of Public Health's Graduate Training Programs in Clinical Investigation are offering a newly revised Science of Clinical Investigation Certificate Program.

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ICTR is pleased to announce the addition of the Office for Imaging Support in Translational Research (OISTeR) service to Connection Request.

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The ICTR has selected the recipients of the third round of Accelerated Translational Incubator Program (ATIP) grants.

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All publications resulting from research using any ICTR resource, including Clinical Research Units, ATIP funding, and/or consulting services, should cite the ICTR grant as a contributing source of support. When publishing articles related to this research, please include one of the following citations:

• "This publication was made possible by Grant Number UL1 RR 025005 from the National Center for Research Resources (NCRR), a component of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and NIH Roadmap for Medical Research. Its contents are solely the responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official view of NCRR or NIH." OR
• "The project described was supported by Grant Number UL1 RR 025005 from the National Center for Research Resources (NCRR), a component of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and NIH Roadmap for Medical Research, and its contents are solely the responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official view of NCRR or NIH."

The Summer Clinical Research Experience, funded by the Predoctoral Clinical Research Training Program, is looking for sponsors for medical students interested in clinical research. For more information regarding the Program and its Summer Research Experience, click here to visit the web site. If you are interested in serving as a mentor to one of these students, you can post potential research projects directly onto the medical students' web site by clicking here.

The Controller's office has issued a clarification of the procedures involved in compensating research participants, particularly regarding when participants' social security numbers are required. Click here for the full announcement.

The Institute for Clinical and Translational Research (ICTR) would like to introduce the Office of Recruitment and Retention Consulting Service (ORRCS) to members of the Johns Hopkins research community. This resource is designed to assist researchers in developing and evaluating plans to recruit and retain study participants in order to facilitate timely recruitment and high rates of participant retention. Researchers may also request assistance with studies in progress when experiencing difficulty in meeting recruitment or retention goals.

Examples of issues that may be addressed through consultation include: developing a recruitment plan; developing a concise description of the target population and suggestions on methods to access the target population; recruitment of minority or underserved populations; budgeting for recruitment and retention efforts; use of media; methods for tracking recruitment and retention; and participant incentives. These services are offered directly to principal investigators and study coordinators in the Johns Hopkins research community. Students and staff are asked to coordinate their requests through a faculty advisor or principal investigator.

If you would like to take advantage of the expert assistance and support of the ICTR Office of Recruitment and Retention consultants, please complete a service request form through the ICTR Connection Request system.

The ICTR held a quarterly departmental liaison information session on Monday, November 3, 2008. Daniel E. Ford, MD, MPH, ICTR Director, started the session with a presentation updating recent ICTR activities. Christine Weston, Senior Research Coordinator at the Bloomberg School of Public Health, spoke briefly about the application of social network analysis techniques to ICTR organization. She was followed by Neil R. Powe, MD, MPH, MBA, ICTR Deputy Director, who gave an update on the Clinical Research Scholars KL2 program and distributed a program flyer to attendees.