This application requests continued support for the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's (MIT) Clinical Research Center (CRC), the prinicipal locus for MIT's research programs involving human subjects. Ongoing and projected research projects described in this application involve 24 protocols directed by 43 principal and co-investigators. Major areas currently under investigation include the clinical neurosciences (neurology; sensorimotor physiology; autonomic nervous system; neuroendocrinology; neuropsychology and the behavioral neurosciences; neuropsychopharmacology); metabolism (amino acid metabolism; obesity); biomedical engineering (cardiovascular physiology); and experimental pharmacology and therapeutics, including imaging. This constellation of interests and expertise facilitates collaborative research at the CRC on processes or diseases which involve both neuro behavioral and metabolic phenomena such as obesity or the effects of drugs and nutrients on behavior. It also allows the CRC to serve as the locus of a new post-doctoral training program in clinical research. While much of the CRC's growth in recent years has been in the neurosciences, the CRC remains MIT's major component undertaking research on human nutrition and metabolism. Three of the major CRC users Professors Suzanne Corkin, Richard Wurtman and Vernon Young are recipients of seven to ten year NIH or NIMH Merit Awards. Science 1990 the CRC has reported on academic and research matters to the joint Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology (HST); as a patient-care entity it continues to report to the MIT Medical Department. MIT intends to renovate the CRC's Facility.

Agency
National Institute of Health (NIH)
Institute
National Center for Research Resources (NCRR)
Type
General Clinical Research Centers Program (M01)
Project #
3M01RR000088-37S1
Application #
6430692
Study Section
General Clinical Research Centers Committee (CLR)
Program Officer
Knazek, Richard
Project Start
1975-10-01
Project End
2001-11-30
Budget Start
1999-12-01
Budget End
2001-11-30
Support Year
37
Fiscal Year
2001
Total Cost
$1,092,515
Indirect Cost
Name
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Department
Other Health Professions
Type
Schools of Arts and Sciences
DUNS #
City
Cambridge
State
MA
Country
United States
Zip Code
02139
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