The mission of the Clinical and Translational Research (CTR) Program is to accelerate the progression and prevalence of clinical and translational research at Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago and speed the delivery of new therapies and cures to our patients. The CTR Program provides support to ALL departments and divisions of Lurie Children’s and Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago Research Center, with the goal of developing a culture of research by fostering collaboration, training researchers, providing institutional support, expanding resources and coordinating services for both sponsored and investigator-initiated research.