General Clinical Research Center (GCRC)
The Winnick Family General Clinical Research Center (GCRC), a program funded by the National Institutes for Health's National Center for Research Resources, has aided clinical investigators at Cedars-Sinai since 1994. The GCRC provides clinical research infrastructure for investigators who receive their main research support from federal and other national/international agencies. The GCRC supports more than 100 research protocols and aids in producing 125 scientific publications per year.
Clinical Research Services
Cedars-Sinai's GCRC program supports:
- Protocols with patients undergoing provocative testing, sample collections, and drug/hormone administration
- Research nursing support for inpatient/outpatient studies. A 'mobile' unit that collects biological samples and supports investigators both in the field and in the hospital
- Research subject screening, recruitment & education
- A Sample Processing Laboratory to speed the collection, handling and triage of samples and clinical data
- Bio-Nutrition research support (including DEXA scans)
- Clinical rooms for research encounters, infusions, phlebotomy & testing
- Research sample storage
- Trial design and biostatistics support
- Bioinformatics Support
- A Genotyping/Phenotyping core which is equipped for high throughput genotyping (including genome scans), as well as candidate gene studies
- A Human Tissue Repository that establishes and stores lymphoblastoid cell lines for use in genetic studies of a variety of diseases
- Genomics Expression (mRNA & miRNA)
- A Perinatal Clinical Research Center specifically designed for mother-newborn clinical projects
Clinical Research Training and Education
The GCRC also offers a variety of clinical research training and recognition programs designed to encourage participation in biomedical research. These programs begin as early as high school and extend to the junior faculty level
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