General Clinical Research Centers Annual Meeting

描述（由申请人提供）：通过其使命，以支持研究基础设施，国家研究资源中心（NCRR）目前提供支持的79个GCRC是基于在全国各地的学术医疗中心。 如果没有这些GCRC，校外研究团体成员进行临床研究的费用将高得令人望而却步。 除了为开展人体研究提供机构场所外，GCRC计划还为下一代临床研究者的培训提供集中基地和实质性支持。 根据U13（合作协议）机制提交的这一提案要求为GCRC方案的五次年度会议提供支持。 这些会议的四个主要目标是：1）在全国范围内的GCRC网络内，加强、提高和刺激以患者为导向的/临床研究的科学卓越性; 2）实现有效的NIH-GCRC行政对话和信息交流，从而实现对公众和国会有关以患者为导向的研究的授权的响应的整合; 3）改进确保和监测参与GCRC网络支持的临床研究的所有受试者安全的方法;以及4）创造一个环境，使GCRC最优秀的初级研究人员有机会展示自己的研究，相互交流，并接触和学习人类调查领域的国家领导人。 为了确保GCRC计划年度会议的四个主要目标得以实现，建议成立一个指导委员会。 该委员会将由来自国家GCRC网络和NIH的代表组成，将通过每月电话会议举行会议。 委员会的组成将包括：每年由GCRC项目主任（PD）协会执行委员会选出的项目主席;来自生物营养学家、研究护士、信息学核心、实验室核心、研究主题倡导者（RSA）办公室和CAPS/MCAPS小组的指定代表;以及来自NIH GCRC工作人员的指定代表。 这些月度会议的其他参与者将包括GCRC PD协会主席和会议组织者Meetings Plus的项目代表。 根据过去的几次会议，研究者预计将有700多人出席，包括：PD和助理PD、护士经理、生物营养学家、行政经理、信息学经理、生物统计学家、核心实验室经理、RSA和CAPS/MCAP/K23。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Through its mission to support research infrastructure, the National Center for Research Resources (NCRR) currently provides support of the 79 GCRCs that are based at academic medical centers throughout the country. Without these GCRCs, the conduct of clinical research by members of the extramural research community would be prohibitively expensive. In addition to providing an institutional site for the conduct of human investigation, the GCRC program also provides a centralized base and substantial support for the training of the next generation of clinical investigators. This proposal, submitted under the U13 (Cooperative Agreement) mechanism, requests support for five annual meetings of the GCRC Program. The four major objectives of these meetings will be: 1) to reinforce, enhance, and stimulate scientific excellence in patient-oriented/clinical research within the nationwide GCRC network; 2) to achieve effective NIH-GCRC administrative dialogue and exchange of information, thereby effecting integration of their responses to public and congressional mandates concerning relevant patient-oriented research; 3) to improve methods of assuring and monitoring the safety of all subjects involved in clinical research supported by the GCRC network; and 4) to create an environment in which the GCRCs best junior investigators have an opportunity to present their own research, to interact with one another, and to gain exposure to and learn from national leaders in the field of human investigation. To assure that the four main objectives of the annual meeting of the GCRC program are accomplished, a Steering Committee is proposed. This committee, which will be composed of representatives from both the national GCRC network and from the NIH, will meet via monthly conference calls. The make-up of the Committee will include: the Program Chairperson who will be selected each year by the Executive Committee of the GCRC Program Directors (PDs) Association; a designated representative from Bionutritionist, Research Nurses, Informatics Core, Laboratory Core, Research Subject Advocate (RSA) Office and CAPS/MCAPS groups; and a designated representative from the NIH GCRC staff. Additional participants in these monthly meetings will include the president of the GCRC PDs Association and the program representative from Meetings Plus, the conference organizer. Based on the past several meetings, the investigators anticipate attendance by over 700 individuals including: PDs and Associate PDs, Nurse Mangers, Bionutritionists, Administrative Managers, Informatics Managers, Biostatisticians, Core Laboratory Managers, RSAs, and CAPS/MCAPs/K23s.