Clinical Core

临床核心将通过扩展现有的 三个D-CFAR机构的专业知识和合作，拉什大学，伊利诺伊大学 在芝加哥（UIC）和库克县卫生服务局。临床核心的主要优势 现有研究人员的素质，对艾滋病毒/艾滋病研究感兴趣的新研究人员的数量， 广泛的临床研究活动，在DCFAR中已经存在的特征良好的队列数量 机构和国际上以及由三个代表的大量不同的患者人群 机构及其国际附属机构。该核心有以下具体目标：1）增加深度 通过促进临床研究人员、社会和 D-CFAR机构和国际上的行为科学家和基础科学家。2)协助 研究人员在设计和D-CFAR支持的临床研究项目的进行。3)增加 * 通过促进年轻人的发展，增加D-CFAR机构中艾滋病毒/艾滋病临床研究人员的人数 少数民族研究者和艾滋病研究新手。4)提高艾滋病毒研究能力， 加强和整合现有的数据库和标本库， 供D-CFAR调查人员使用。5)增加转化研究的数量和影响 在芝加哥D-CFAR调查员中，达到支持竞争性申请全面CFAR的水平。 临床核心将由Stroger（库克县）医院的Audrey French博士指导，并将共同指导 理查德·诺瓦克博士的演讲弗伦奇博士是传染病科的成员， 斯特罗格医院和拉什医学院的副教授。她曾担任 CORE中心自1998年成立以来一直从事研究工作。理查德·诺瓦克博士是一位教授， 传染病在UIC他是UIC艾滋病毒/艾滋病项目的主任和NIAID的网站PI HIV疫苗试验网络（HVTN）核心部分将主要通过核心资源管理 中心，库克县卫生服务局的艾滋病毒预防，护理和研究中心和 最大的艾滋病毒护理提供者在中西部，虽然临床资源将可从所有的D-CFAR 机构和国际合作。

The Clinical Core will facilitate high impact translational HIV/AIDS research by expanding upon the existing expertise and collaborations across the three D-CFAR institutions, Rush University, the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) and the Cook County Bureau of Health Services. The primary strengths of the Clinical Core are the quality of existing investigators, the number of new investigators interested in HIV/AIDS research, the sroad range of clinical research activities, the number of well-characterized cohorts already in place across DCFAR institutions and internationally and the large diverse patient population represented by the three institutions and their international affiliates. This Core has the following specific aims: 1) Increase the depth and breadth of translational research by facilitating interactions between clinical researchers, social and behavioral scientists and basic scientists across the D-CFAR institutions and internationally. 2) Assist investigators in the design and conduct of clinical research projects supported by the D-CFAR. 3) Increase the number of HIV/AIDS clinical researchers in the D-CFAR institutions by fostering the development of young and minority investigators and those new to AIDS research. 4) Increase capacity for HIV research by enhancing and integrating existing databases and specimen repositories and establishing a specimen repository for use by D-CFAR investigators. 5) Increasing the quantity and impact of translational research among Chicago D-CFAR investigators to a level that will support a competitive application for a full CFAR. The Clinical Core will be directed by Dr: Audrey French of Stroger (Cook County) Hospital and will be codirected by Dr. Richard Novak of UIC. Dr. French is a member of the Division of Infectious Diseases at Stroger Hospital and an Associate Professor at Rush Medical College. She has served as the Director of Research at the CORE Center, since it opened in 1998. Dr. Richard Novak is a Professor in the Division of Infectious Disease at UIC. He is the Director of the UIC HIV/AIDS project and the site PI for the NIAID funded-HIV Vaccine Trials Network (HVTN). The Core will be managed primarily through the CORE Center, the Cook County Bureau of Health Services' center for HIV Prevention, Care and Research and the largest provider of HIV care in the Midwest, although clinical resources will be available from all D-CFAR institutions and through international collaborations.