Johns Hopkins University Institute for Clinical and Translational Research (ICTR)

What Johns Hopkins University Institute for Clinical and Translational Research (ICTR) does

Johns Hopkins University Institute for Clinical and Translational Research (ICTR) is a non-profit academic research institute within Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, founded in 2007 as part of the NIH Clinical and Translational Science Awards (CTSA) program and funded by NCATS under grant UM1TR004926. The institute operates an integrated translational research infrastructure serving Johns Hopkins investigators, with clinical research units across Baltimore (Bayview Adult, East Baltimore Adult Outpatient and Inpatient, East Baltimore Pediatric, West Baltimore ProHealth) and St. Petersburg, Florida (All Children's Hospital), plus informatics platforms including REDCap, Epic for Research, OnCore CTMS, OpenSpecimen, CCDA, PMAP, and CRISP health information exchange, supporting study design, data capture, biospecimen management, participant recruitment, and precision medicine analytics.

ICTR's revenue model combines NIH CTSA core funding with a fee-for-service structure across its platforms and core labs: CCDA data extraction at $130/hour, REDCap Silver at $50/month, MyChart recruitment messaging at $13/batch, and the Advanced Topics in Clinical Research course at $2,250 per attendee. The institute serves multiple customer segments including the Johns Hopkins University research community, pre-doctoral and post-doctoral trainees, BIRCWH K12 scholars, regional partner institutions (University of Maryland Baltimore ICTR, Morgan State University, Kaiser Permanente Mid-Atlantic), and multi-site networks such as JHCRN (5+ million potential research participants), CAPRES, the Trial Innovation Network, and PCORnet/PaTH. Key leadership includes Director Daniel Ford, MD, MPH, with dedicated directors for each core unit spanning informatics, laboratory, nutrition, recruitment, and multi-site research operations.

Name

Johns Hopkins University Institute for Clinical and Translational Research (ICTR)

Legal name

Johns Hopkins Institute for Clinical and Translational Research

Website

https://ictr.johnshopkins.edu

Company type

Private

Founded year

2007

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Johns Hopkins ICTR is a non-profit academic research institute providing integrated clinical and translational research infrastructure—including informatics platforms, clinical research units, laboratory cores, and recruitment services—to Johns Hopkins investigators and regional partner institutions, funded primarily by NIH NCATS CTSA grants.

Ownership category

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Headquarters

HQ city

Baltimore

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices7 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Infrastructure, Technology or R&D, Operations, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. NIH CTSA Grant Funding: ICTR is funded by the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS) through the Clinical & Translational Science Awards (CTSA) Program, grant number UM1TR004926. This provides core funding for translational research infrastructure and services.
2. Fee-for-Service Research Support: Various services charge fees including CCDA data extraction at $130/hour, REDCap Silver version at $50/month, MyChart recruitment batch messaging at $13/batch, and custom messaging at $26/hour. Services include Clinical Research Units, laboratory cores, and informatics platforms.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion3 records

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels7 records

Core offering

ICTR is an NIH-funded institute within the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine that provides integrated clinical and translational research infrastructure and services across the full research lifecycle. It operates informatics platforms (REDCap, OnCore, Epic for Research, OpenSpecimen, PMAP), Clinical Research Units across multiple Baltimore and Florida locations, biostatistics, regulatory and recruitment support, laboratory and nutrition cores, and multi-site research networks (JHCRN, CAPRES, Trial Innovation Network, PCORnet/PaTH) to support investigators at Johns Hopkins and partner institutions.

Product overview

ICTR is a research institute providing an integrated suite of clinical and translational research services rather than a single product. The core informatics infrastructure includes REDCap for data capture, Epic for Research for EHR integration and MyChart recruitment, OnCore as the clinical trials management system, OpenSpecimen for biospecimen management, CCDA for clinical data acquisition with NLP capabilities, and PMAP for precision medicine analytics. Supporting services include Clinical Research Units for study conduct, Research Laboratory Core for assays, Research Nutrition Core, Recruitment Innovation Unit, and multi-site research networks (JHCRN, CAPRES, Trial Innovation Network, PCORnet/PaTH). These services connect through Epic, SlicerDicer, TriNetX, CRISP health information exchange, and DocuSign for electronic consent.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• REDCap (Research Electronic Data Capture) Secure, HIPAA-compliant web application for online and offline research data collection and management, offering comprehensive user access controls, eConsent, randomization, multi-site study support, EPIC integration, and exports to Excel, SPSS, SAS, Stata, and R. Targeted at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine faculty, students, and staff conducting clinical research.
• Epic for Research Suite of Epic medical record features supporting clinical research, including MyChart-based study recruitment, best practice advisories to identify candidates, custom data collection forms, research data extraction via CCDA, and integration with OnCore. Targeted at Johns Hopkins investigators conducting EHR-enabled research.
• OnCore Clinical Trials Management System (CTMS) Web-based clinical research management tool that organizes and streamlines clinical research operations, offering enrollment tracking, robust reporting, and accurate clinical research billing. Required for all studies with prospective reimbursement analysis at Johns Hopkins.
• OpenSpecimen Biospecimen Information Management System for biorepositories providing annotation of research and clinical data, specimen and derivative tracking, Epic patient lookup integration, bulk load capability for legacy data, and open-source architecture. Designated Tier A best practice for storing biospecimen metadata by the Data Trust.
• Core for Clinical Research Data Acquisition (CCDA) Assists researchers with accessing clinical data for research, providing preliminary anonymous data for feasibility, IRB-approved case-finding, Natural Language Processing services, research data extracts, data de-identification, and honest broker services. Charges $130/hour with first 2 hours free for new IRB-approved projects.
• Precision Medicine Analytics Platform (PMAP) Dual-nature resource comprising a large-scale data repository hosted on Microsoft Azure cloud and a cloud-based analytics and knowledge delivery component. Pulls data from Epic Medical Record and other sources into a Data Commons format operable by machine learning and natural language processing technologies for precision medicine research.
• Qualtrics Survey Platform Enterprise survey platform provided free to School of Medicine faculty, students, and staff for research surveys, evaluations, event registration, experimental design, academic survey outreach, alumni outreach, and course evaluations. Recommended over SurveyMonkey for sensitive data.
• Clinical Research Units (CRUs) Dedicated clinical research facilities across five Baltimore-area locations and one Florida location (Bayview Adult, East Baltimore Adult Outpatient, East Baltimore Adult Inpatient, East Baltimore Pediatric, West Baltimore ProHealth, and Johns Hopkins All Children's). Provide outpatient/inpatient care, sample processing, pharmacy, infusion, nutrition, and specialized nursing for research participants.
• ICTR Research Laboratory Core Performs approximately 160 different immunoassays for proteins, peptides, hormones, and biochemical markers and offers 87 distinct clinical assays. Provides sample processing, point-of-care testing, and quality control for blood, saliva, CSF, and urine analyses with direct manufacturer pricing to reduce investigator costs.
• Research Nutrition Core Provides nutrition assessments, diet intake analysis, nutrition counseling, anthropometric and body composition measurements, energy expenditure assessments, and protocol-specific meal preparation for adult and pediatric research participants across all Baltimore ICTR Clinical Research Units.
• Recruitment Innovation Unit (RIU) Supports research teams with MyChart recruitment via Epic, email and bulk postal outreach, recruitment materials design, and Baltimore Farmer's Market community engagement. Achieves average 7.04% response rate with 100% study team satisfaction for MyChart messaging.
• Johns Hopkins Clinical Research Network (JHCRN) Alliance of academic and community health systems providing multi-site collaborative research infrastructure. Offers access to over 5 million potential research participants across sites including Luminis Health, TidalHealth, Reading Hospital, and WellSpan.
• Capital Region Research (CAPRES) Provides research management and support infrastructure to Johns Hopkins-owned hospitals in the National Capital corridor. Supports Howard County General, Sibley Memorial, Suburban, and Johns Hopkins Community Physicians sites with full Epic integration and centralized research resources.
• Trial Innovation Network (TIN) National collaborative network supporting multi-center clinical trials. Features single IRB system, master contracting agreements, quality-by-design approaches, and evidence-based recruitment strategies. Operates through the Johns Hopkins-Tufts Trial Innovation Center formed with Tufts University School of Medicine.
• PCORnet PaTH Network Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute-funded research network using EMR data across multiple sites. Johns Hopkins is a member institution of the PaTH Clinical Data Research Network partnering with UPMC, Temple, Penn State, Ohio State, Michigan, and Geisinger to maintain EMR data in the PCORnet Common Data Model.
• CRISP (Chesapeake Regional Information System) Regional health information exchange serving Maryland and DC, formally designated as Maryland's statewide HIE. Enables collection of medical records from outside organizations such as MedStar facilities with participant consent for research data collection.
• Advanced Topics in Clinical Research Course Two-day virtual course offering advanced training in clinical research methodology, offered annually in September. Two-day virtual course fee of $2,250; tuition remission accepted for Johns Hopkins employees; qualifies as continuing education for SOCRA and ACRP.

Quantifiable outcome

• 100% study team satisfaction rate for MyChart Recruitment Service
• +3 more outcomes

Named customers15 records

Segments5 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed Yes

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Integration10 records

AI capability5 records

Feature6 records

Partnerships

Eleven partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• University of Maryland Baltimore Institute for Clinical and Translational Research (UMB ICTR)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2007ICTR partners with UMB ICTR to pool resources and improve the translational research process to get more treatments to patients more quickly. The partnership addresses obstacles in translating basic science discoveries into human research, translating clinical discoveries into the community, and communicating experience from clinical practice back to researchers. Combined schools and hospitals aim to impact research across the state of Maryland.
• Morgan State UniversitycoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2007Johns Hopkins University partners with Morgan State University to provide additional training opportunities for doctoral students to become experts in translational research. Morgan State also works with the ICTR Community Collaboration Core to strengthen partnerships between the Baltimore community and research communities, and with the Predoctoral Clinical Research Training Program (PCRTP).
• Kaiser Permanente Mid-Atlantic StatescoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2007Johns Hopkins University works with Kaiser Permanente Mid-Atlantic States to advance each organization as a Learning Health Care System. Both organizations have funded a series of collaborative pilot studies supporting research teams working in areas that benefit both organizations and present broader opportunities to change how research leads to improvements in health care delivery.
• National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS)coreOthersNCATS funds the ICTR through the Clinical & Translational Science Awards (CTSA) Program, grant number UM1TR004926. ICTR is one of more than 60 medical research institutions in this national consortium working to improve the way biomedical research is conducted.
• PCORI (Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute)coreOthersPCORI funds PCORnet, the infrastructure supporting patient-centered research with emphasis on EMR data across multiple sites. Johns Hopkins participates as a member institution of the PaTH Clinical Data Research Network within PCORnet.
• Johns Hopkins Clinical Research Network (JHCRN)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerJHCRN is an alliance of academic and community health systems including Luminis Health, TidalHealth, Reading Hospital (Tower Health affiliate), and WellSpan. The network provides access to over 5 million potential research participants and enhances the flow of scientific information by supporting multi-site clinical, translational, and pragmatic research.
• Capital Region Research (CAPRES) PartnerscoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerCAPRES is a JHM effort providing research management and support infrastructure to Johns Hopkins-owned hospitals in the National Capital corridor including Sibley Memorial Hospital, Suburban Hospital, Howard County General Hospital, and Johns Hopkins Community/Regional Physicians. Full Epic integration and centralized resources support research at each hospital.
• Trial Innovation Network (TIN)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerTIN is designed to support innovation in multi-center clinical trials. The Johns Hopkins-Tufts TIC received a seven-year, $25 million NIH NCATS grant to form the Trial Innovation Center. TIN features single IRB system, master contracting agreements, quality-by-design approaches, and evidence-based strategies for recruitment and patient engagement.
• PCORnet PaTH Network PartnerscoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPaTH is one of eight Clinical Data Research Networks (CDRNs) within PCORnet, based at University of Pittsburgh and including Johns Hopkins, Temple, Penn State, Ohio State, Michigan, and Geisinger. Partners maintain EMR data in PCORnet Common Data Model standardizing millions of data points for collaborative research.
• Morgan CARES ProgramminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerHealth Research Day 2026 was organized in partnership with the University of Maryland Baltimore ICTR Community Engagement Team and Morgan State University's Morgan CARES program, reflecting shared commitment to fostering community engagement and increasing awareness of health research opportunities.
• Tufts University School of MedicinecoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerTufts University School of Medicine partners with Johns Hopkins in the Johns Hopkins-Tufts TIC to form one of three Trial Innovation Centers in the TIN, backed by a $25 million NIH NCATS grant.

Scale indicators10 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Direct peers

• Columbia University Irving Institute for Clinical and Translational Research: Columbia's CTSA-funded translational research institute. Provides similar integrated services — biostatistics, clinical research units, recruitment, and community engagement — to investigators across the Columbia/NYP system.
• Harvard Catalyst: Harvard University's CTSA-funded clinical and translational research center. Operates with the same NIH CTSA model, providing biostatistics, informatics, recruitment, and CRU services to Harvard investigators and partner hospitals.
• Duke Clinical and Translational Science Institute (CTSI): Duke's CTSA-funded institute offering translational research infrastructure, training, and pilot funding. Direct comparable in scope, funding model, and service portfolio.
• Vanderbilt Institute for Clinical and Translational Research (VICTR): Vanderbilt's CTSA hub providing biostatistics, bioinformatics, recruitment, and research support services. Notable for its synthetic derivative and BioVU biobank — analogous to ICTR's PMAP and OpenSpecimen capabilities.
• Yale Center for Clinical Investigation (YCCI): Yale's CTSA-funded clinical research center. Provides similar integrated research infrastructure including biostatistics, CRUs, training, and pilot funding for Yale investigators.
• University of Pennsylvania ITMAT: Penn's Institute for Translational Medicine and Therapeutics, also a CTSA-funded translational research hub. Comparable scope spanning preclinical-to-clinical translation, training, and informatics infrastructure.
• UCSF Clinical and Translational Science Institute: UCSF's CTSA-funded institute offering translational research support, training, and informatics services across UCSF and affiliate health systems. Comparable in structure and program design.
• Northwestern University Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute (NUCATS): Northwestern's CTSA institute offering comparable translational research services, training, and informatics support across the Northwestern Medicine system.
• University of Pittsburgh CTSI: Pitt's CTSA hub and lead institution of the PaTH Clinical Data Research Network — already a direct partner of ICTR. Comparable scope, and the PaTH network linkage makes it both a peer and collaborator.

Emerging players

• REDCap Consortium (Vanderbilt): Vanderbilt-developed, multi-institution consortium for the REDCap EDC platform that ICTR helps operate and extend at Johns Hopkins. Comparable on the EDC technology layer that anchors ICTR's informatics portfolio.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat6 records

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