By
Jennifer
Bonck

UKCRO
continues the mission of KCRISS, to increase the University
of Kentucky research portfolio by providing faculty
and staff with integral support for clinical research
projects.
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Aug.
9, 2002 (Lexington, Ky.) -- The
Kentucky
Center for Clinical Research and Investigator Services
(KCCRIS) has officially been dissolved and renamed
the University of Kentucky Clinical Research Organization
(UKCRO).
UKCRO continues
the mission of KCRISS, to increase the University
of Kentucky research portfolio by providing faculty
and staff with integral support for clinical research
projects.
The department
offers regulatory and institutional assistance with
grants and clinical trials, and holds brown bag research
education seminars for UK faculty and staff. It also
provides research space for clinical trial administration
and patient examinations.
UKCRO will have an official open house in late September.
For more
information on the mission of UKCRO, click
here. go to www.mc.uky.edu/ukcro/.
GCRC
The University
of Kentucky General Clinical Research Center (GCRC)
has been awarded $11.6 million for the next five years
to provide clinical scientists the essential resources
necessary to conduct patient-oriented research.
The GCRC
has had continued funding from the National Institutes
of Health (NIH) National Center for Research Resources
since 1985. The most important purpose of the GCRC
is to provide the clinical research infrastructure
to investigators who receive their primary research
funding from other institutes of the NIH. The Center
strongly encourages collaboration among basic and
clinical scientists -- to develop, promote, and maintain
a national core of expert clinical investigators,
to train other health professionals in clinical research,
and to provide resources in which advances in basic
scientific knowledge may be translated into new or
improved methods for patient care. The GCRC in-patient
facility is located in the 5 North wing of UK Hospital
and the outpatient facility shares the space with
UKCRO in the second floor of the Kentucky Clinic.
The Center's resources are available to all clinical
investigators.
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