Program Overview
We live in an exciting era of scientific revolution. The nation has devoted extensive resources to basic biomedical research which has led to many fundamental discoveries.
Unfortunately, significant barriers between clinical and basic research still exist and make it difficult to translate new knowledge into enhanced clinical care of the patient -- and back again to the bench.
Clinical and Translational Science is the emerging field that aims as closing the gap between basic discoveries in the laboratory to improved health and health care of the population.
The Institute for Clinical Research Education at the University of Pittsburgh has designed a doctoral program in Clinical and Translational Science to develop a new discipline of clinical and translational science and to re-engineer the way basic scientific discoveries are translated to improve health and healthcare.
The University of Pittsburgh doctorate of philosophy program in Clinical and Translational Science is a rigorous, advanced training program in clinical and translational science designed primarily for clinicians that aims to substantially enhance the capabilities of scientists to conduct high quality clinical and translational research.
The PhD program has several unique and important attributes:
- Is highly multidisciplinary, in that its faculty and students are expected to span not only departments, but multiple schools of the Health Sciences.
- Has a deep and diverse curriculum that draws upon biostatistics, clinical research methods, and laboratory and population-based sciences.
- Focuses on the conduct of clinical and translational research and requires the planning, execution and completion of an independent research project by each PhD candidate.
