Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H)<\/a>, an agency within HHS created under the Biden administration that invests in innovative research and \u201cbreakthrough technologies.\u201d With this initiative, the agency hopes to speed up the development of new disease treatments.<\/p>\n\u201cToday\u2019s clinical trial system often requires too many stops, too much duplicated infrastructure, and too much time before researchers can understand whether a trial is on the right track,\u201d said Daria Fedyukina, program manager for SURPASS, in a news release.<\/p>\n
Dell Medical School will be the “key academic partner” for two major projects announced as part of the SURPASS initiative. The first, known as STACK, intends to equip more research sites to take on clinical trials and make them more accessible to patients where they live, including in rural areas. The second, the COMMONS project, will develop a \u201cnational research data resource\u201d which institutions across the country can access and contribute to. In addition to sharing data useful for future clinical trials, it aims to help institutions identify patients who might be a good fit for a project. Dell Medical School will be the first institution to contribute to and test COMMONS.<\/p>\n
Dell Medical School will dedicate resources from across UT to the efforts, including contributions from experts in computing, engineering and data science.<\/p>\n
Claudia Lucchinetti, the dean of Dell Medical School, said the projects align with the university\u2019s goals in opening the forthcoming Dell Medical Center \u2014 \u201cbringing research closer to patients and making learning part of everyday care.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThese projects will help build a lasting foundation for that work by connecting patients with appropriate trials, bringing participation closer to home and using real-world and digital data to better understand what works and for whom,\u201d Lucchinetti said in a news release.<\/p>\n
Support for KUT’s reporting on health news comes from St. David\u2019s Foundation<\/a>. Sponsors do not influence KUT’s editorial decisions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"UT Austin’s Dell Medical School will have a key role in new projects aimed at improving and expanding…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":455154,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133,1147,97386,13177,156245,57235,82728,27653,11564,4778],"class_list":["post-455153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news","tag-clinical-trials","tag-dell-medical-center","tag-dell-medical-school","tag-dr-oz","tag-hhs","tag-mehmet-oz","tag-rfk","tag-rfk-jr","tag-ut"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=455153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455153\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/455154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=455153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=455153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=455153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}