Our Lady of the Lake and Children’s Hospital New Orleans to Partner to Improve Pediatric Health Services and Outcomes

LA CaTS Center Leaders at Partner Institutions Named to Healthy State Advisory Board

N3C Announcements: Call for Proposals & CMS Data Training

The LA CaTS Center Welcomes New Core Faculty-Dr. Kimberly Drews & Dr. Jennifer Caldwell

LSU Health New Orleans Researcher Dr. Suresh Alahari Discovers New Drug Target for Triple-Negative Breast Cancer

LSU Health Shreveport’s Dr. Terry Davis Receives 2022 Community Hero Award from LSU Health Sciences Foundation

LA CaTS Annual External Advisory Committee Meeting

New Louisiana Center Focused on Advancing Underrepresented Scientists (LAUNCHED) Announces Call for Pilot Grants

LSU Health-New Orleans’ Ochoa receives Prestigious Award from NCI

LA CaTS Team Celebrates IDeA-CTR renewal

Pennington Biomedical Announces Renewal of LA CaTS Center $20M NIH Grant

Major Louisiana Research Institutions Will Focus on Combating Chronic Diseases, Recruiting Scientists, and Boosting Community Involvement.

Professional Development Core Welcomes New Roadmap Scholars

Each year the Professional Development Core selects qualified Scholars into the program. The Roadmap Scholars are junior faculty members whose goals are to become sustainable independent researchers. This year, in addition to a submitted application, Scholars were interviewed by all three Co-Directors and the Research Navigator. Please join us in welcoming the 11th Cohort of Roadmap Scholars: Michael Celestin, PhD (LSUH-New Orleans, Jacob Mey, PhD (Pennington Biomedical), and Rhea Bhargava, MD (Tulane).

2022 Translational Science Showcased LA CaTS Scholars' Research

Special acknowledgement given to our Roadmap Scholars and Professional Development Core for attending the 2022 Translational Science (ACTS) Meeting on April 20-22nd in Chicago, Illinois.

Louisiana COVID Publications Break 1000!

LA CaTS Announces New Monthly Louisiana Lagniappe Series

The LA CaTS Center Professional Development Core is introducing the new “Louisiana Lagniappe Series” beginning May 2022 on Zoom. Each month will feature a 30 minute talk from researchers and early career scientists in Louisiana, showcasing their work on a variety of chronic disease and health-related topics.

LA CaTS Scholar Dr. Robert Newton’s Community Engagement Work Highlighted

Pennington Biomedical Research Foundation highlights Dr. Robert Newton's Community Engagement work in the monthly snapshot.

LA CaTS 2022 Professional Development Plenary Talk

Plenary talk on “Racial Inequities in Health: What We Know and What We Think We Know” by Dr. Thomas A. LaVeist, PhD, Dean and Weatherhead Presidential Chair in Health Equity, Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine.

LA CaTS Announces Level 3 Research Coordinator's Training on May 20, 2022

The LA CaTS Clinical Research Resources Team announced the next Level 3 Research Coordinator Training, planned for Friday, May 20th from 8 a.m. – 4 p.m. This event will be person at Tulane School of Medicine. All LA CaTS institutions are invited to attend. There will be no cost to attend the training and all attendees will receive a certificate of completion.

LA CaTS Announces Level 2 Research Coordinator's Training on April 1, 2022

The LA CaTS Clinical Research Resources Team announced the next Level 2 Research Coordinator Training, planned for Friday, April 1st from 8 a.m. – 4 p.m. This event will be person at Tulane School of Public Health building and via Zoom. All LA CaTS institutions are invited to attend. There will be no cost to attend the training and all attendees will receive a certificate of completion.

LA CaTS Announces 2022 Professional Development Speaker on “Racial Inequities in Health: What We Know and What We Think We Know”

Plenary talk on “Racial Inequities in Health: What We Know and What We Think We Know” by Dr. Thomas A. LaVeist, PhD, Dean and Weatherhead Presidential Chair in Health Equity, Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine.

IDeA-CTR Sites to Host National COVID Cohort Collaborative (N3C) Investigator Event on 2/17/22

This event will demonstrate IDeA-CTR members to the National COVID Cohort Collaborative (N3C). The N3C Data Enclave is a secure platform through which harmonized clinical data provided by our contributing members are stored. The Enclave includes demographic and clinical characteristics of patients who have been tested for or diagnosed with COVID-19, and further information about the strategies and outcomes of treatments for those suspected or confirmed to have the virus. This event will feature a keynote presentation by Dr. Chris Chute, Co-PI for N3C, and presentations by IDeA-CTR N3C leadership and investigators, including Drs. Sally Hodder and Clifford Rosen.

Xavier University has been awarded extended funding in partnership Tulane University for LA-CEAL 2.0

Xavier University of Louisiana's Center for Minority Health and Health Disparities Research & Education (CMHDRE) has been awarded extended funding in partnership Tulane University for LA-CEAL 2.0 (Louisiana Community Engagement Alliance Against COVID-19)

Message from the Director

LA CaTS in the Community

We invite LA CaTS junior, senior, and all other investigators to utilize the SparcRequest platform to request to share their research with the CEO Core's standing Baton Rouge and New Orleans Community Advisory Boards (CABs).

LA CaTS Announces Level I Research Coordinator Training (Virtual)

Please join us for the LA CaTS Level I Research Coordinator Training on Friday, January 28, 2022 from 8 a.m.- 3:30 p.m. This is a free training will be a fully virtual event, open to research coordinators of all levels at all LA CaTS institutions. Participants will receive an LA CaTS Research Coordinator Training Certificate for participation in the program.