Clinical Research Resources

The General Clinical Research Center (GCRC) supports investigator initiated, human based research and is open to all UM, Miami VA Medical Center and Jackson Medical Center investigators.

Contact:
Dr. Rodolfo Alejandro

The Family Medicine Center for Clinical Research facility is available for the Department of Family Medicine faculty physicians.

The new Clinical Research Initiation Services (CRIS) office has been created to serve all of our campuses in the creation and initiation of clinical trials. All new clinical research projects, funded and unfunded, should be submitted to the Clinical Research Initiation Services Office (CRIS) for handling. CRIS will negotiate and sign the contract, build and negotiate the budget, and prepare a Medicare coverage analysis to ensure compliant billing. For information on engaging CRIS, please go to www.med.miami.edu/cris.

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The Biostatistics Core at the UM/ Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center serves as resource for Cancer center members.

Contact:
Dr. Isildinha Reis
or
Dr. Gail Walker

• Statistical Programming Core

• Genetic Epidemiology Core

Susan Slifer

The Biostatistics Center (BSC) at Bascom Palmer Eye Institute provides assistance with ocular associated research and clinical study design, data management and analysis.

Additional Biostatistics and data management relevant resources are also available through the Department of Epidemiology and Public Health.

A new university wide Biostatistics Core resource is in the planning stages as well.

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The newly created Center for Computational Sciences (CCS) is a university-wide enterprise that is committed to working with you to advance your research. CCS focuses its efforts on catalyzing interdisciplinary computational science among all divisions, departments, schools and colleges involved in the research sciences and engineering.

CCS is developing several initial cross-disciplinary programs that together span the life sciences, earth sciences and the high tech world.  These are in Bioinformatics, Physical Sciences, Engineering, Chemoinformatics, Data Mining, and Visualization.

The infrastructure for these programs is provided via:

• High Performance Computing Core, and
• Scientific Software Engineering Core

The mission of the Bioinformatics Program of CCS is to spearhead bioinformatics capacity at the University of Miami for all biological and medical applications.  CCS is setting up a Bioinformatics Toolkit (website in the works) which will house almost all freely available genomic and genetic databases and web tools, as well as several licensed tools that will be made available to users under a Software Access Policy.

The Informatics Core at the UM/Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center provides its members and affiliates with Systems Development and Support as well as Network Management and Personal Computing services.

The new Genomic Medicine Registry assists researchers to get collections started by providing help with informatics, logistics and funding. This resource accelerates or jump starts the process by providing the necessary tools, methods and expertise to get collections going.

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