Establishment of the Collaborative Tools Resource Network Posted By: Nina Preuss - Nov 4, 2009Tool/Resource: NITRC Community The National Center for Research Resources (NCRR), a unit of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), today announced the establishment of the Collaborative Tools Resource Network (CTSN). The CTSN is comprised of current and past members of Biomedical Informatics Research Network (BIRN) testbed consortia. The testbeds include Function BIRN and Morphometry BIRN, both focused on developing best practices and data sharing for MRI-based human neuroimaging, as well as Mouse BIRN, which develops atlas tools for accessing and visualizing animal research data sources. The CTSN works from within BIRN to extend BIRN services to research communities outside of the original BIRN testbeds. The CTSN is charged with ensuring the smooth integration of tools developed within the BIRN testbeds to BIRN’s evolving data management and infrastructure capabilities. Through this grant, the expertise gained by the testbeds will provide support for other groups wishing to establish a research network. The co-principal investigators of the CTSN are: Steven G. Potkin, M.D., professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior at the University of California at Irvine and the principal investigator of the Function BIRN testbed; Bruce R. Rosen, M.D., Ph.D., professor of radiology at Harvard Medical School and of health sciences and technology at the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology, as well as principal investigator of the Morphometry BIRN testbed; and Arthur W. Toga, Ph.D., professor in the Department of Neurology, associate vice provost at the University of California at Los Angeles, and an associate dean of the UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine and principal investigator of the Mouse BIRN testbed. |
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