NC State received a sub-award from the North Carolina Translational and Clinical Sciences Institute (TraCS) at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine. NC TraCS is an NIH grant-funded institute founded as a service to the translational medical research community— guiding clinical researchers, particularly those at UNC Chapel Hill, through clinical trials and regulatory approval, all the way to implementation in patient care.

As part of the TraCS grant, the NC State Data Science and AI Academy (DSA) will replicate work done by its joint consulting program with the Data Science Services in the Libraries by leveraging expertise provided by graduate research assistants. Because NC State has extensive experience with helping support data science research through the DSA and NC State University Libraries’ Data Science Services data science consulting program, we are excited about the opportunity to develop a similar program focused on supporting NC TraCS clinical researchers.

The goals of the DSA portion of this project are:

1. Support clinical research within the NC TraCS program by creating useful and targeted programming that fills the identified gap.
2. Train graduate students at NC State in collaborative biostatistics, data-intensive clinical research and communication skills.
3. Develop a support model that could be replicated at NC State and other institutions.