The Office of Clinical Trials




Last Updated 5/3/02 Email the Office of Clinical Trials			Infrastructure Projects The Office of Clinical Trials, a joint venture of Columbia University¹s Health Sciences Division, New York Presbyterian Hospital, and the New York Presbyterian Healthcare Network, manages a fund used to enrich our clinical research infrastructure. Applications for support are reviewed and recommended for funding by the Clinical Trials Advisory Committee. All projects receive final approval from Columbia¹s Dean of Health Sciences and the President of New York Presbyterian Hospital. The awarded funds provide total or partial support for intramural projects or programs that reinforce research, education, and patient care. CT Advisory Committee Application for Financial Support Projects supported during the past eight years have included: The Hilal/Hatch Magnetic Resonance Imaging Facility PET Scanning Pilot Feasibility Study CPMC P3 Biocontainment Virology Facility Slit Lamp Imaging System Clinical Data Scanning Facility Clinical Event Monitoring MEDS: Centralized Research Database for Clinical Research Laser Surgery Revascularization Project Biostatistics and Epidemiology Consultation Project Oncology Data Management and Biostatistics Program Embryonic Dopamine Cell Implants for Parkinsonism Improvement of HIV Health Care Delivery in New York City IAMS Network for the New York State Psychiatric Institute Support for Psychiatric Institute Satellite Research Clinic Central Station Computer for Clinical Research at the Irving Center The Center for Intestinal Dysfunction Computerized Database for the CPMC AIDS Program 3-D Reconstruction of Positron Emission Tomography (PET) Images Vitamin and Antioxidant Research Center Center for Women's Health: Education and Research Mission Department of Surgery Clinical Trials Unit Molecular Biology Core Facility at the Irving Center for Clinical Research Expansion of the Dermatology Clinical Research Unit The Center for Advanced Laboratory Medicine Non-Invasive Assessment of Nitric Oxide Production Ambulatory Measurements of Blood Pressure Variability Studies on Varicella-Zoster Viral Infections by the Pediatric AIDS Clinical Trials Unit Support for the Merritt Clinical Research Center Night and Weekend Coverage for the Irving Center for Clinical Research Functional Brain Imaging with Echo-Planar Magnetic Resonance Imaging Hispanic Recruitment and Research Center Good Clinical Practices Training Seminar Irving Center Mass Spectrometry Core Facility Predicting and Modeling the Development of Central Post-Stroke Pain Research Subject Recruitment Unit for Psychotic Disorders Arginine Metabolism Laboratory Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center Clinical Outcomes Research Program Establishment of an Asthma Center for Clinical Research The Naomi Berrie Diabetes Center Wave Form Detection and Analysis Software Infrastructure Support for High-Resolution Carotid Duplex Doppler System Development of a Human Islet Isolation Center for Islet Transplantation The Comprehensive Evaluation of Cardiac Repolarization Infrastructure Support for Xenon-133 Cerebral Blood Flow Measurement Technology Infrastructure Support for Advanced Echocardiography Equipment The Clinical Cardiovascular Research Laboratory for the Elderly Dense Array EEG Collection, Archiving, and Processing System Specialized Microscopy Suite for High-Resolution Analysis of the Skin and Epithelial Structures Infrastructure for the Columbia Colon Cancer Prevention Project Effective Training in the Practice of Informed Consent

Infrastructure Projects