Clinical Research Core, Diabetes Endocrinology Research Center

The Clinical Research Core (CRC) offers assistance to Diabetes Endocrinology Research Center Affiliate investigators who are involved in clinical research or who need clinical specimens in their basic science work. The primary goal of the Clinical Research Core is to provide Affiliate Investigators with access to human volunteers, with and without diabetes, for clinical research. The Core maintains a Diabetes Registry database that contains subjects with and without diabetes who have expressed interest in participating in clinical research. Additional specific services which the Core provides include recruitment of volunteers for research studies, and obtaining serum, plasma, blood, questionnaire data or other research specimens. These specimens can be delivered to the investigator or to other sites. In addition, the Core Director serves as a resource in the general area of clinical research by providing formal and informal consultation to investigators on clinical research methods, clinical epidemiology, and applied statistical analysis. The Clinical Research Core now includes self-help web pages to guide investigators to resources that will provide assistance with several pertinent subject areas, including clinical research design, sample size and power calculations, free statistics software, and a listing of public databases of potential use in clinical and epidemiologic diabetes research.

• Consultations (i.e. study design, experiment design)
• Professional service (i.e. analysis, report writing, manuscript review)
• Other