Understanding and responding to the complex threats to health posed by climate change requires collaboration across disciplines and communities.
To fast-track those collaborations, on November 8, Tufts Clinical and Translational Science Institute (CTSI) and the Office of the Vice Provost for Research sponsored the Team Science Summit, the first convening of its kind at Tufts.
The day-long event featured presentations of ongoing and emerging work in multiple departments and centers at Tufts, Tufts Medicine, and a broad group of CTSI partner institutions, all in service of expanding the university’s response to the existential threat to environmental, animal, and human health posed by climate change.
Team science summits are designed to increase awareness of translational research and opportunities for collaboration across scientific, engineering, and clinical research communities. That objective made CTSI a logical partner for the summit, according to event organizer Cheryl London, given CTSI’s mission of stimulating innovative, broadly engaged team science across the translational research spectrum. London is the director of Tufts CTSI’s research collaboration team and associate dean for research and Anne Engen and Dusty Professor of Comparative Oncology at Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine.
Bernard Arulanandam, vice provost for research, offered his hope that the event would facilitate new connections for attendees in service of strategies for adaptation and resilience to benefit communities locally and globally. Arulanandam is also a professor of immunology at the School of Medicine.
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