The CTSA consortium, a group of medical research institutions working together to improve the way biomedical research is conducted across the country, is funded by the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS), a component of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The consortium shares a common vision of accelerating discoveries and engaging communities in clinical and translational research efforts, and is focusing on the crucial step of training the next generation of investigators. To learn more about the CTSA consortium, please visit the NCATS home page. Our CTSA is embedded within the Harold and Muriel Block Institute for Clinical and Translational Research (ICTR).