Center for Translational Pharmacology (CTP) 

The CTP facilitates high-quality, competitively funded, peer-reviewed pharmacokinetic/pharmacodynamic translational research in clinical protocols. Its key functions include:

1. Implement trials with pharmacokinetic studies by assisting with study design, building of standards orders and laboratory test procedures, and education of nursing and other clinical staff.
2. Efficiently and properly collect, accession, process, and distribute pharmacokinetic samples for clinical trials.
3. Develop or implement bioanalytical methods and validate their performance to ensure high-quality data, assay sensitivity, and assay specificity per FDA guidelines.
4. Accurately analyze drug and metabolite concentrations or other relevant pharmacologic indices in biological samples.
5. Develop and apply state-of-the-art biomedical pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic modeling.
   

The CTP resources have been and will continue to expand research horizons and funding by providing outstanding expertise in conducting pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic studies, developing novel biomedical models, and providing the highest quality of data while performing these studies in a cost-effective manner.