About Us
The Georgetown University Medical Center General Clinical Research
Center (GCRC) was established in June 1999 through a grant from
the National Center for Research Resources of the National Institutes
of Health, Department of Health and Human Services. Its design is
to further biomedical research by aiding clinical research investigators
at Georgetown, as well as investigators from the surrounding District
of Columbia hospitals who hold peer-reviewed research support, the
access to resources and technologies needed to conduct research
that improves human health. The GCRC also serves to enhance career
development through mentored training of clinical research skills
to medical students, resident physicians, fellows, clinical associate
physicians (CAPs), K23 awardees, and other junior faculty members.
The mission of the GCRC is to:
- Provide an optimal setting for investigator-initiated, peer-reviewed,
patient-oriented research.
- Encourage and foster collaboration among expert scientists.
- Provide the infrastructure for discoveries in basic science
that will be translated into advances in clinical areas.
The GCRC program supports the components essential to clinical
research providing operating expenditures, hospitalization and ancillary
laboratory costs, nursing, research bionutritionists, administrators,
core laboratory staff, biostatisticians, and informatics personnel.
Biomedical investigators supported by the disease-oriented institutes
of the National Institutes of Health may access these resources
and technologies based on need and merit. Industry-sponsored studies
are accepted to the GCRC based on their scientific advancement;
all costs are borne by the sponsor.
The Georgetown Institutional Review Board's (IRB) and GCRC Advisory
Committee's approval are required for the use of GCRC resources
and services.
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