EXCEED THE SPACEPROVIDED.The Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center (WFUBMC) General Clinical Research Center opened in1993 and has conducted more than 390 protocois, currently averaging 100 active protocols. The GCRC offersquality inpatient, scatterbed, and outpatient services and facilities to clinical investigators, and its services areattended by a diverse and outstanding professional staff of health care providers. Projections for outpatientvisits in 2006 exceed 10,000, an index of progressive growth. During the past five years, the GCRC added aGeriatric subunit, a Molecular Genetics Core Lab, and a Research Subject Advocate program. This applicationseeks to add a GCRC Imaging Core.The GCRC is a widely used institutional resource with investigators from every clinical department, everyclinically connected institutional Center or Research Program, and most basic science departments.Collaborative interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary research is primary to the WFUBMC GCRC. Areas ofinvestigation include: hypertensive and atherosclerotic cardiovascular diseases; cancer biology and treatment;pain processes and management; geriatric causes of muscular and cardiac disability, and loss of cognition;women's health; systemic and local inflammatory processes; epidemiologic and functional genetics; diseases ofneonatal prematurity; diabetes, obesity, and the metabolic syndrome; regenerative medicine; kidneydiseases;neurologic degenerative processes; epidemiology and health services. Education is another GCRC focus. TheGCRC Clinical Research Series is the best-attended regular conference of the Medical Center, averaging 145per week. Special educatonal seminars and pre- and post-doctoral trainees are sponsored. The GCRCreceivesinstitutional financial support from the medical school and hospital for educational activities and other specialoperating expenses.The WFUHS GCRCwill continue to promote advancesin human health.
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