CTSA-VA Collaboration and Resources

The CTSA consortium, in partnership with the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), recently hosted a meeting, Opportunities for Collaborative Clinical and Translational Science: Enhancing Clinical Phenotyping. The meeting summary and materials are available online and future CTSA – VA collaboration opportunities/resources include –

the VA Genomic Medicine Program, serves as a national resource for genomic research initiatives to improve health care to veterans;
ResearchMatch, a volunteer recruitment registry designed to provide individuals with ways to participate in research studies;
VA Pharmacogenomics Analysis Laboratory (PAL), which supports ongoing and future pharmacogenomics observational studies and clinical trials to improve the treatment of many illnesses by reducing toxicity, and increasing efficacy of drugs;
eMERGE Network, a consortium comprised of CTSA institutions and DNA Biobanks, links electronic medical record (EMR) data to assess the utility of EMR as resources for genome science; and
VA Information Resource Center (VIReC), which provides researchers with detailed and summarized information on the data sources most used by VA researchers.