Advance RI-CTR celebrates 10 years

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.

This special opportunity award has been created in honor of the 10-year anniversary of Advance RI-CTR and to celebrate our collective Decade of Discovery. We are pleased to announce that we will be awarding $10,000 to an early career investigator who embodies clinical and translational research excellence in the state of Rhode Island.

In year 10 of our program, The Survey, Qualitative and Applied Data (SQuAD) Research Core will play an integral role in Advance RI-CTR’s consultation services, with Drs. Clark and Dunsiger serving as co-Leads of Advance RI-CTR’s Biostatistics, Epidemiology, and Research Design (BERD) Core.

Register for the Clinical and Translational Research seminar series now to join us virtually from noon to 1pm ET on the second Thursday of each month, September-May.

Strengthen Your Proposal Before You Submit

Ready to Launch Your Research Career? The Advance-K Scholar Career Development Program could be your next big step.

Improve Your Mentoring Skills and Make a Difference

In collaboration with all of Rhode Island's IDeA funded programs, Advance RI-CTR welcomes investigators, research staff, stakeholders and community members to attend the 2025 Emerging Areas of Science Rhode Island IDeA Symposium on June 17th!

Learn to use the powerful statistical capabilities of R which enable complex analysis and visualization of medical data with Advance RI-CTR’s training in the R programming language. This virtual course will be held asynchronously from the week of January 27th, 2025 through the week of May 12th, 2025.

Maya Vadiveloo, PhD, RD, has been awarded a K01 Mentored Research Scientist Development Award from the National Heart Lung and Blood Institute.

Register now for a proposal development workshop for federal funding targets (NIH, NSF, & more).

Ruben Martinez, PhD, has joined the Advance RI-CTR Biostatistics, Epidemiology, and Research Design (BIBCE) Core as a Co-Lead.

Apply now for up to $100K in seed funding to support your clinical and translational research.

Engage with the Community through Advance RI-CTR's Community Engagement Studios. As part of the services available to Rhode Island researchers through its Community Engagement and Outreach Core, Advance RI-CTR now offers Community Engagement Studios. 

Are you ready to win your first R Award?

Spend one lunchtime a month with distinguished speakers and Advance RI-CTR Awardees

Ready to revolutionize your research?

July 15, 2024: Call for applications for the 2024 Advance-K Scholar Career Development Program from Advance RI-CTR and the Division of Biology and Medicine at Brown University. Apply and learn what it takes to win an NIH K award and jumpstart your research career.

Over 1200 people attended the National Symposium of Biomedical Research Excellence (NISBRE) in Washington, DC last week, and Rhode Island investigators were there in force. Some highlights.

Advance RI-CTR's Community Engagement and Outreach (CEO) Core seeks to build a network of Rhode Island-based Community-Engaged Researchers with interest in collaborating on grants and other community-engaged efforts.

Interested in pursuing an SBIR/STTR grant and want to get some feedback on your proposal? 

Advance RI-CTR is thrilled to announce that a very special new instrument will soon take up residence at the Genomics Research Core Facility at 70 Ship Street.

This series features outstanding science from expert investigators alternating with Advance RI-CTR Pilot Projects awardees sharing their early research. Seminars are held virtually on the second Thursday of each month.

Our colleagues at the Great Plains IDeA-CTR are hosting "Pragmatic Trial Designs for Community-Based Studies" both in person and virtually.

Rhode Island Hospital and Advance Rhode Island-Clinical and Translational Research, from The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, join national clinical trials resource center spearheaded by West Virginia Clinical and Translational Science Institute (WVCTSI)

Be sure to save the date (Thursday, February 29th and Friday, March 1st, 2024) for a Proposal Development Workshop for Federal Funding Targets (NIH, NSF & More)

Providence, RI – Advance Rhode Island Clinical and Translational Research (Advance RI-CTR) is pleased to share that Judy Kimberly, Evaluation Director at Brown University, is stepping up to the role of Co-Lead of our Tracking and Evaluation (T&E) Core.

Providence, RI – Advance Rhode Island Clinical and Translational Research (Advance RI-CTR), a pioneering force in clinical and translational research in Rhode Island, is delighted to welcome two distinguished leaders as Co-Leads of its Professional Development (PD) Core.

Improve Your Mentoring Skills and Make a Difference

This series features outstanding science from expert investigators alternating with Advance RI-CTR Pilot Projects awardees sharing their early research. Seminars are held virtually on the second Thursday of each month.

Portia Cornell, PhD, has been awarded a VA Health Services Research & Development (HSR&D) Career Development Award (CDA-2) from Veterans Affairs

This series features outstanding science from expert investigators alternating with Advance RI-CTR Pilot Projects awardees sharing their early research. Seminars are held virtually on the second Thursday of each month.

Improve Your Mentoring Skills Through Our Fall 2023 Mentoring Training

Providence, RI – Advance Rhode Island Clinical and Translational Research (Advance RI-CTR) is pleased to announce that two distinguished researchers will play a pivotal role in advancing the program’s commitment to community-based research and engagement.

Are you ready to level up your research career?

This series features outstanding science from expert investigators alternating with Advance RI-CTR Pilot Projects awardees sharing their early research. Seminars are held virtually on the second Thursday of each month.

More funding is available. Apply now for the 2024 Advance RI-CTR Pilot Projects Program.

Manshu Yang, PhD, has been awarded a K01 Mentored Research Scientist Development Award from the National Institute on Drug Abuse.

We're excited to announce the second RFA for the Advance-R Program. We are now accepting applications for an internal study section opportunity for those looking to submit applications for their first R Award (or similar awards). Scholars will also attend didactic sessions on topics related to R-award preparation. This program is open to those submitting for the first time, and those resubmitting applications for funding.