For over 40 years, the General Clinical Research
Center (GCRC) has been the place for Johns Hopkins faculty to do
their patient-oriented research. Many of the most important clinical
investigators in the world have worked on the Hopkins GCRC or its
predecessor units-names like George Thorn, Fuller Albright, Helen
Taussig, Victor McKusick, Saul Brusilow and Richard
Ross.
Today's faculty continues to have at their disposal one of the best
GCRCs in the nation. Our goals are to help
investigators write the soundest research protocol and to provide
the infrastructure that makes conducting research as streamlined and
easy as possible. We provide support all the way from planning through
data analysis. Our product is excellent clinical research.
The GCRC grant covers the nuts and bolts. To mention just a
few of our services, we have M.D./Ph.D.
biostatisticians who can help with study design and planning beforehand; we pay
for patient bed days, clinic space, many ancillary tests, database assistance
and data storage, functional MRIs; we support
specialized bio-nutritionists, a Research Subject Advocate, and quality
research nursing. The primary role of the GCRC staff is to work with
investigators, to help them accomplish the most ethical and scientifically
sound research. Whether you are pursuing studies of one unique patient, a
population-based epidemiologic study, pilot project or multicenter
trial, we want you to look at the GCRC to find out how we can help.
So, on behalf of the GCRC at Johns Hopkins, I invite
you to come talk with us about your current or future research ideas.
Join us as we fulfill our mission of achieving the highest quality
clinical research and advancing the science that underlies good
patient care.
Christopher D. Saudek,
M.D.
Professor of Medicine
Program Director, General Clinical Research Center
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