What is RTRN and how does it operate?
RTRN stands for Research Centers in Minority Institutions (RCMI) Translational Research Network. RTRN or the Network represents a groundbreaking effort to integrate clinical, biomedical and behavioral researchers from RCMI institutions across the United States and Puerto Rico working together with providers and community leaders in novel geographic and ethnically diverse research partnerships aimed at improving patient outcomes identified as key national public health priorities. RTRN is designed to facilitate multi- and inter-disciplinary translational research teams to create evidenced-based knowledge and techniques to diagnose, prevent, and treat those diseases that are Healthy People 2010’s priorities for improving the nation’s health. The Network encompasses a cluster system (a geographically diverse working group linked by cyber workspaces) which promotes intellectual exchange and generates inter- and multi-disciplinary research, thus translating research from phase to phase. In
