Advance-CTR

Advance Rhode Island Clinical and Translational Research

Advance RI-CTR supports Rhode Island investigators through funding, research resources and services, and professional development offerings.

Advance Rhode Island Clinical and Translational Research

Advance RI-CTR supports Rhode Island investigators through funding, research resources and services, and professional development offerings.

A Statewide Hub for Translational Research

Our awards, services, and resources are tailor-made to help investigators turn scientific discoveries into solutions that get to the heart of RI's community health priorities.

News From Advance-CTR

Advance RI-CTR Celebrates 10-Year Anniversary and Names Dr. Chathuraka Jayasuriya as Inaugural Research Excellence Award Winner

PROVIDENCE, R.I. – November 7, 2025 – Advance RI-CTR, the leading collaborative for clinical and translational research in Rhode Island, today announced that Dr. Chathuraka Jayasuriya, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Orthopaedics at The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University and Rhode Island Hospital, is the recipient of the inaugural Award for Clinical and Translational Research Excellence.

Resources for Investigators

Core Offerings

We designed our award, service, and professional development cores to meet the needs of Rhode Island's investigator community.
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Advancing Discovery

Two annual award programs aim to train the next generation of health researchers to translate their findings from the bench and bedside to the larger community.

Award Programs

Two annual award programs provide funding for research that spans the translational spectrum.

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Research Services

Consult with our experts during all stages of the research process, from preparing an application and planning your project, through to project implementation and analyzing your results.

Advance-K Scholar Successes
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Advance-K Scholar Spotlight: Amy Stamates, PhD

Amy Stamates, PhD, has been awarded a 5-year K01 Mentored Research Scientist Development Award from the National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism
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Advance RI-CTR by the Numbers

1,889

Service Consultations

590

Service Users

135

Awarded Investigators

97

Projects Launched

166

Extramural Awards to CTR Investigators

271

Trained Faculty Mentors

17

Mentoring Training Sessions Held

8

NRMN-Trained, Advance RI-CTR Mentor Facilitators

Awardees in Action

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Awardee Spotlight: Orestis Panagiotou, MD, PhD

Dr. Panagiotou was recently published in JAMA Oncology on the statistical challenges of using administrative claims data for answering clinical and policy questions.
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Awardee Spotlight: Nisanne Ghonem, PharmD, PhD

Advance-CTR awardee Nisanne Ghonem, PharmD, PhD, recently received funding from United Therapeutics to move her research from the bench to the bedside.
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Connecting Investigators with Experts

Our service cores support RI investigators in the areas of biostatistics and research design, qualitative methods, biomedical informatics, and community-engaged research.

Service Core Successes

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Training RI's Research Workforce

Explore career development opportunities, technical trainings, and more from Advance RI-CTR and our partners.

A Statewide Partnership

Our academic, hospital, and community partners make our work possible.