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The Tufts Clinical and Translational Science Institute (CTSI) is responsible for CTRC business management, including operations, personnel, research administration, facilities and finance.

The COVID-19 biorepository and comprehensive database have been created to accelerate a wide variety of research efforts including characterizing the basic pathophysiology of the disease, its clinical outcomes as well as the development of diagnostic tests, vaccines and treatments.

Our mission at the Institute for Clinical Research and Health Policy Studies (ICRHPS) is to research and develop solutions for delivering better medical care and health services. This includes doing our own projects and teaching and assisting others in similar and related research.

The Institute for Clinical Research and Health Policy Studies (ICRHPS) at Tufts Medical Center (Tufts MC) offers validated questionnaires, manuals and toolkits to assist and support Tufts-affiliated researchers. Our products are also available for use by global healthcare research community members.

The faculty and team of the Institute for Clinical Research and Health Policy Studies (ICRHPS) at Tufts Medical Center regularly present their research in articles published in the world’s most prestigious, peer-reviewed journals and by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.

Exceptional healthcare depends on an outstanding team of practitioners—and nurses are an integral aspect of that care.

During Nurses Week each year, Tufts Medical Center honors excellence in nursing with an awards ceremony and reception. Nurses are nominated by their peers, leadership and patients, with a committee choosing the recipients. We are fortunate to have generous donors who sponsor two very special awards: The Ryan Compassionate Care Award and the Edward and Sylvia Jaye Excellence in Nursing Clinical Practice Award.

Tufts Medicine is home to academic departments and specialty centers that redefine what's possible in research, innovation and care. Each are difference makers. And together, we make healthier possible for our colleagues and patients.

As an academic medical center and a teaching hospital, we pride ourselves not only in the sophistication of the care we provide but also in the compassionate way in which we provide it. We care for all — from the tiniest newborns to centenarians.

Our faculty actively participates in clinical and basic sciences research on urological oncology, benign prostate hyperplasia (BHP) and minimally invasive surgical procedures. Basic laboratory research is focused on prostate cancer and BPH.

The members of the Division of Colon and Rectal Surgery have a wide number of research interests including complications of ostomies, inflammatory bowel disease, pathogenesis of colorectal and anal cancer and treatment of early rectal cancer.

The Department of Ophthalmology’s research portfolio is robust.

The Buchsbaum Laboratory focuses on studying signal transduction pathways underlying cancer cell growth and metastasis. In particular, we are interested in pathways involving the Rac protein, a member of the Ras superfamily that is a central player in multiple signaling pathways affecting malignant cell behavior.

In the Covic laboratory, we study a novel class of cell surface proteins known as protease-activated receptors.

Physician-researchers in the Tufts Medical Center William B. Schwartz Division of Nephrology lead the way in conducting clinical research to define chronic kidney disease and have written the guidelines for its medical management.