Many UCSF cores provide expertise in designing and conducting clinical research studies in addition to supplying equipment, technical services, and, in some cases, pilot grants. Contact the cores to find out what they offer. Below is a list of cores with services primarily focused on supporting clinical and translational research. To find other cores that support clinical research, contact the Research Resource Program.
Study Design
Clinical and Translational Science Institute
- Consultation Services: Comprehensive, integrated consultations in diverse research fields for every stage of a study -- from study design through publication, biostatistics and data management.
- Regulatory Knowledge and Support: Navigate regulatory approvals, including submissions to UCSF Institutional Review Board
- Community Engagement: Engage with communities and inform public health policies, from recruitment to identifying community-based issues and developing community-supported solutions.
Premier Human Subjects Core
- Consultation on human subjects study design, data collection form development, outcome measures, and research ethics
- Facilitate identification of human clinical phenotypes
Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center (HDFCCC) Clinical Research Support: Protocol Development and Regulatory Unit
Recruitment
Clinical and Translational Science Institute, Recruitment Services: Meet recruitment goals with resources that include consultation, social media design, advertising, EHR-based recruitment, budgeting, and techniques for recruiting minority populations.
Premier Human Subjects Core: Create system-wide EHR queries to generate cohort counts by phenotype; generate patient lists for recruitment; recruitment of human subjects.
Administration -- Clinical Research Coordinators, Finance, and Nursing
- Clinical Imaging Core Services: Clinical Research Coordinators
- Clinical and Translational Science Institute, Clinical Research Services: Nursing
- HDFCCC Clinical Research Support: Early Phase Clinical Trials Unit
- HDFCCC Clinical Research Support: Finance Unit
- HDFCCC Clinical Research Support: Research Personnel Unit
Clinical Research Services
- Whole body
- Clinical Imaging Core Services
- Clinical and Translational Science Institute, Clinical Research Services: Body Composition, Exercise Physiology, and Energy Metabolism Core
- Assays
- Sample acquisition, processing, and storage
- Clinical and Translational Science Institute, Clinical Research Services: Phlebotomy, Sample Processing Laboratory
- Diabetes Center Islet Production Core
- CTSI Biospecimen Processing Lab
- Cell and Genome Engineering Core
- Neurosurgery Tissue Core
- Premier Human Subjects Core
Data management and analysis, including EHR
See the Computation and Informatics Cores Family
Therapeutics development