General Clinical Research Center

超出空间 提供了 维克森林大学浸会医学中心（WFUBMC）综合临床研究中心于年开业。 1993年，进行了390多项协议，目前平均有100项有效协议。GCRC提供 为临床研究者提供高质量的住院、分散床位和门诊服务和设施，其服务包括 由多元化和优秀的专业医护人员参加。门诊病人预测数 2006年的访问量超过10 000次，这是一个逐步增长的指数。在过去五年中，GCRC增加了一个 老年亚单位，分子遗传学核心实验室，和研究主题倡导计划。本申请 寻求添加GCRC成像核心。 GCRC是一个广泛使用的机构资源，研究者来自每个临床部门，每个 临床连接的机构中心或研究计划，以及大多数基础科学部门。 跨学科和多学科的合作研究是WFUBMC GCRC的首要任务。领域 研究内容包括：高血压和动脉粥样硬化性心血管疾病;癌症生物学和治疗; 疼痛过程和管理;肌肉和心脏残疾的老年原因，以及认知丧失; 妇女健康;全身和局部炎症过程;流行病学和功能遗传学; 新生儿早产;糖尿病、肥胖和代谢综合征;再生医学;肾脏疾病; 神经系统退化过程;流行病学和卫生服务。教育是全球区域中心的另一个重点。的 GCRC临床研究系列是医学中心参加人数最多的定期会议，平均145人 的一年资助了专门的教育研讨会和博士前和博士后培训人员。GCRC收到 医学院和医院为教育活动和其他特别活动提供的机构财政支助 WFUHS GCRC将继续促进人类健康的进步。

EXCEED THE SPACE PROVIDED. The Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center (WFUBMC) General Clinical Research Center opened in 1993 and has conducted more than 390 protocois, currently averaging 100 active protocols. The GCRC offers quality inpatient, scatterbed, and outpatient services and facilities to clinical investigators, and its services are attended by a diverse and outstanding professional staff of health care providers. Projections for outpatient visits in 2006 exceed 10,000, an index of progressive growth. During the past five years, the GCRC added a Geriatric subunit, a Molecular Genetics Core Lab, and a Research Subject Advocate program. This application seeks to add a GCRC Imaging Core. The GCRC is a widely used institutional resource with investigators from every clinical department, every clinically connected institutional Center or Research Program, and most basic science departments. Collaborative interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary research is primary to the WFUBMC GCRC. Areas of investigation 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 of neonatal prematurity; diabetes, obesity, and the metabolic syndrome; regenerative medicine; kidneydiseases; neurologic degenerative processes; epidemiology and health services. Education is another GCRC focus. The GCRC Clinical Research Series is the best-attended regular conference of the Medical Center, averaging 145 per week. Special educatonal seminars and pre- and post-doctoral trainees are sponsored. The GCRCreceives institutional financial support from the medical school and hospital for educational activities and other special operating expenses.The WFUHS GCRCwill continue to promote advancesin human health.