Cathleen Kane, NYU Karen Cielo, UIC Paul Duguid, Arkansas Mendy Dunn, Florida Maryam Gholami, UCSD Kristi Holmes, Northwestern Joe Hunt, Indiana Patricia Moussatche, Stanford Christy Navarro, UC Davis Brittney Jackson Patterson, Wake Forest Alfred Vitale, Mayo Jennifer Croker, UAB – confirmed. Objectives/Goals: Over the past few years, there has been debate and confusion about the definition of Translational Science (TS) versus Translational Research (TR). The CTSA Administrators met in 2024 to discuss how to better define TS versus TR and create a useful product for the consortium. Methods/Study Population: The Administrators brainstormed best practices and discussed what products could be developed to clarify these concepts. A committee formed to create a useful product for the consortium. An editable document was shared by email and discussed at the December 2024 and February 2025 Administrators meeting to crowdsource existing assets. This process was repeated with the NCATS QA/QC Group, CTSA Evaluators, Workforce Development Enterprise Committee, and Communications Consortium Committee between May and July 2025. The team collects 87 entries from 31 CTSA hubs. Members of the committee reviewed and curated the entries for relevance, accuracy, duplication, and completeness. Results/Anticipated Results: The final work product will be deposited on the Coordination, Communication, and Operations Support (CCOS) website for long-term storage. This site provides a password-protected, stable home for this resource. To help improve the usefulness of this resource, documents available as pdfs are downloaded into a database, so they can be found even if their URLs change. In addition, the name of the institution, person, and email address contributing the resource was included with each item. Discussion/Significance of Impact: The authors’ hope this resource will provide the clinical and translational science community with materials to educate and clarify the meaning of TS and TR, and how each contributes to scientific advances that improve health for everyone.
Nate Hafer (2026) studied this question.