Research Consortia

Message from the Director of Research Programs and Strategic Initiatives

From its earliest beginnings, the GCC has been a pioneer in deploying processes and mechanisms to forge research collaborations and high impact research initiatives that cross both institutional and geographic boundaries.  It has been my absolute pleasure to work with >4,000 research faculty, clinicians, postdoctoral and doctoral trainees, and research scientists across our member institutions and beyond, who jointly develop and deploy so many innovative programs that leverage the vast resources and infrastructure that exist across our collaborating institutions that vastly surpass the resources available within any single institution alone.

Our inclusive collaborative environment is open to any researcher, and we fully embrace that our diversity (institutional, geographic, race/ethnicity, gender, etc.) is the foundation for why our programs are so impactful.  I am extremely grateful to our GCC Research Team and all of the programmatic and the Steering Committee leaders of our many multi-institutional research and training programs that work tirelessly to ensure their success.

We are fortunate to have a seemingly endless supply of talented new and Junior investigators who move into the region, and we invite you to reach out to learn more.

Suzanne Tomlinson, PhD, MBA
Director of Research Programs and Strategic Initiatives

One of the GCC’s most essential functions is bringing multiple institutions together to form powerful, domain-specific research consortia.