2013 CTSI Retreat: Big Twitter at The Big Tent, Part 2

A few distinct themes emerged from #CTSI2013 tweets during the two lively panel sessions at the 7th Annual CTSI Retreat:

Themes from the 1st Panel:
-Getting out of research and academic silos
-Community & #CitizenScience
-Industry Innovation, Entrepreneurship & Academia
-CTSA Consortium, National Issues

Find below curated tweets by themes.

See Big Twitter at The Big Tent, Part 1 for visualizations and retreat tweets from ‘Setting the Stage’
& Big Twitter at The Big Tent, Part 3 for tweets during the second panel with UCSF Leadership.

1st Panel: Leveraging CTSI, UCSF and CTSA consortium to radically transform research

Getting out of the Silo

Panel w/ Tony Coles @OnyxPharm, @SharonTerry @GeneticAlliance, Regis Kelly @QB3, Keith Yamamoto @UCSF #CTSI2013 pic.twitter.com/jkud0y1Fd5

— CTSI at UCSF (@CTSIatUCSF) July 29, 2013

Keith Yamamoto (UCSF VIce Chance, Research) vision for biomed research: teams of 3-6. Each person on 4-6 of those teams at a time. #ctsi2013

— Greg Biggers (@bigs) July 29, 2013

CTSI can enable knowledge networks, self-assembled transnational teams – Keith Yamamoto, Vice Chancellor of Research @UCSF #CTSI2013

— CTSI at UCSF (@CTSIatUCSF) July 29, 2013

Yamamoto @ucsf -CTSA should facilitate multidisciplinary teams. Small self assembled teams 3-5 PIs, community industry partners #CTSI2013

— K Scholars at UCSF (@KScholarsatCTSI) July 29, 2013

Breaking down silos, from IRBs to duplicated sequencers is the theme of this panel #CTSI2013

— K Scholars at UCSF (@KScholarsatCTSI) July 29, 2013

Initial comments: 'De-silozation' – starting small, be successful then export – Gary Firestein, Director @UCSD @Research_SD #CTSI2013

— CTSI at UCSF (@CTSIatUCSF) July 29, 2013

.@sharonfterry vision: CTSAs more outward-facing. Shun not invented here syndrome. Big opty for community engagement & training #ctsi2013

— Greg Biggers (@bigs) July 29, 2013

CTSAs needs to be more OUTWARD FACING!! Yes!! @sharonfterry CEO @GeneticAlliance #CTSI2013

— K Scholars at UCSF (@KScholarsatCTSI) July 29, 2013

"Academic silos are the greatest impediment we have to transforming our research & translating it (for patients)." Firestein @UCSF #CTSI2013

— Kristen Bole (@KristenBole) July 29, 2013

Community & #CitizenScience

"UCSF had do something different with SFHIP; not lead, but be a partner at the table" Clay Johnston,, director of CTSI #ctsi2013

— Roberto Ariel Vargas (@RAVMPH) July 29, 2013

Tony Coles of Onyx Pharm & Sharon Terry of Genetic Alliance supporting diverse collaborations #CTSI2013 pic.twitter.com/b3etctfjcm

— LaunchPad at UCSF (@LaunchPadCTSI) July 29, 2013

.@sharonfterry: don't just invite me (community member) to table. Let me plan menu, arrange placecards, collaborate on the proectj #ctsi2013

— Greg Biggers (@bigs) July 29, 2013

Can't behave in the old way (re: budget cuts) -> new kind of energy: what can we keep? – @SharonTerry @GeneticAlliance #CTSI2013

— CTSI at UCSF (@CTSIatUCSF) July 29, 2013

#ctsi2013 @sharonfterry don't just invite the community to the table, let them plan the menu #applause

— Nick Anderson (@nick_r_anderson) July 29, 2013

.@sharonfterry says: embrace your fear. Build #TheNewWe #ctsi2013

— Greg Biggers (@bigs) July 29, 2013

Tony Coles of Onyx Pharm – focus on patient needs and beneficial innovation will follow #CTSI2013

— LaunchPad at UCSF (@LaunchPadCTSI) July 29, 2013

Partnership, transparency, &prioritization critical to transforming research to improve health of patients -Tony Coles @OnyxPharm #CTSI2013

— K Scholars at UCSF (@KScholarsatCTSI) July 29, 2013

Future of academics – increasing role of integrators! Great idea! Reg Kelly @QB3 @UCSF #CTSI2013

— K Scholars at UCSF (@KScholarsatCTSI) July 29, 2013

Sharon Terry @theIOM: improve partnerships, boundarylessness, citizenscience. Community shld set table, not just be invited to it #ctsi2013.

— CE and HP UCSF CTSI (@CE_HPatCTSI) July 29, 2013

It strikes me that #CitizenScience is loudly missing from today's 10 'think big' proposals. #ctsi2013 /cc @nick_r_anderson @engagedethics

— Greg Biggers (@bigs) July 29, 2013

.@CE_HPatCTSI @nick_r_anderson @engagedethics AND, how to seize opty to add #CitizenScience-FOCUSED infrastructure/model #ctsi2013 proposal?

— Greg Biggers (@bigs) July 29, 2013

@nick_r_anderson @bigs @engagedethics let's infuse proposals w/ #citizenscience. All wld benefit! Hope you're @ open data tables. #ctsi2013

— CE and HP UCSF CTSI (@CE_HPatCTSI) July 29, 2013

@bigs @engagedethics it is indeed – closest was nod to non academic entrepreneurs #ctsi2013

— Nick Anderson (@nick_r_anderson) July 29, 2013

Gary Firestein says we need new structures of success evaluation that include service to others #ctsi2013

— Greg Biggers (@bigs) July 29, 2013

#CTSI2013 : UC-BRAID seen as an example of community based success story

— Sorena (@Sorena997) July 29, 2013

.@sharonfterry on Community & Metrics, Clay Johnston, CTSI Director to panel – 'How does one better engage community?' #CTSI2013

— CTSI at UCSF (@CTSIatUCSF) July 29, 2013

#ctsi2013 @bigs @nick_r_anderson: NIH has a learning curve with #citizenscience. This new infographic could help! http://t.co/Fp3PWMltfR

— Kelly Edwards (@engagedethics) July 29, 2013

Industry Innovation, Entrepreneurship & Academia

Should look at a continuum – students who go onto companies, startups looked up to as much as research, academia -Regis Kelly @QB3 #CTSI2013

— CTSI at UCSF (@CTSIatUCSF) July 29, 2013

Regis Kelly @QB3 views integration with @CTSIatUCSF as critical to long term translational research success #CTSI2013

— LaunchPad at UCSF (@LaunchPadCTSI) July 29, 2013

#CTSI2013 Forward thinking panel at 7th annual CTSI Retreat. Great ideas and innovating ideas paving the future road

— Sorena (@Sorena997) July 29, 2013

Mistrust of industry created enormous barriers -> Stewardship, collaborative convo respecting pts of view -Tony Coles @OnyxPharm #CTSI2013

— CTSI at UCSF (@CTSIatUCSF) July 29, 2013

Tony Coles: @OnyxPharm execs will visit @UCSF to learn how translational research is catalyzed #CTSI2013

— LaunchPad at UCSF (@LaunchPadCTSI) July 29, 2013

My creative life is connecting people. Reg Kelly @QB3 @ucsf. We need more academic generalists to make connections across silos #CTSI2013

— K Scholars at UCSF (@KScholarsatCTSI) July 29, 2013

#ctsi2013 – yes – count entrepreneurship for academic incentive is critical. #umichigan does this.

— Nick Anderson (@nick_r_anderson) July 29, 2013

Break down the Silos (again)! #silobusting

#CTSI2013 How do we address the NIH regarding these silos?

— ETRatCTSI (@ETRatCTSI) July 29, 2013

#CTSI2013 : "Academic Silos" seen as a significant barrier to success

— Sorena (@Sorena997) July 29, 2013

@sharonfterry #communityengagement best practices must incl. training for academics & community, shifting incentives. #CTSI2013 #silobusting

— CE and HP UCSF CTSI (@CE_HPatCTSI) July 29, 2013

Panel agrees, siloed nature of academic research is biggest I pediment to reaching goals. #ctsi2013

— CSatUCSF (@CSatUCSF) July 29, 2013

Q&A audience: 'What other examples show us how to break silos between disciplines? Job CTSI can take on.' #CTSI2013 pic.twitter.com/TYJ1FaQBWW

— CTSI at UCSF (@CTSIatUCSF) July 29, 2013

To break down silos and integrate research programs, recommend staff "navigators" whose job is to foster linkages as done in CE #ctsi2013

— UCSF FCM (@kgrumbach) July 29, 2013

Big audacious goal: break down silos! MT:@Sorena997: #CTSI2013 : "Academic Silos" seen as a significant barrier to success. #TheNewWe

— Kelly Edwards (@engagedethics) July 29, 2013

From the audience: 'I think CTSI can push hard at the structure to make it more multidisciplinary.' – Dan Lowenstein @UCSF CTSI #CTSI2013

— CTSI at UCSF (@CTSIatUCSF) July 29, 2013

@nick_r_anderson: count community engagement and communication toward promotion too! Michigan State and @UW_CoEnv does this. #ctsi2013

— Kelly Edwards (@engagedethics) July 29, 2013

Academic generalists to strengthen multidisciplinary collaboration? Sounds like a job for a #Navigator #ctsi2013

— Roberto Ariel Vargas (@RAVMPH) July 29, 2013