Clinical Core

临床核心将通过扩大现有的基础上，促进高影响的翻译艾滋病毒/艾滋病研究 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 是现有调查人员的素质，对艾滋病毒/艾滋病研究感兴趣的新调查人员的数量， 广泛的临床研究活动，DCFAR中已经到位的特征良好的队列的数量 机构和国际上以及以三个人为代表的庞大而多样的患者群体 各机构及其国际附属机构。这一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 在D-CFAR支持的临床研究项目的设计和实施中的调查人员。3)增加 通过促进年轻人的发展来促进D-CFAR机构艾滋病毒/艾滋病临床研究人员的数量 少数族裔调查人员和艾滋病研究新手。4)通过以下方式提高艾滋病毒研究能力 加强和整合现有数据库和标本储存库，建立标本 供D-CFAR调查人员使用的存储库。5)增加翻译研究的数量和影响 在芝加哥D-CFAR调查人员中，达到了支持完整CFAR的竞争性申请的水平。 《临床核心》将由斯特罗格(库克县)医院的奥黛丽·弗兰奇博士执导，并将联合执导 由UIC的理查德·诺瓦克博士撰写。弗兰奇博士是传染病科的一名成员， 斯特罗格医院和拉什医学院副教授。她曾担任世界卫生组织 核心中心自1998年开放以来，一直在进行研究。理查德·诺瓦克博士是麻省理工学院 UIC的传染病。他是UIC艾滋病毒/艾滋病项目的主任，也是NIAID的现场PI 资助艾滋病毒疫苗试验网络(HVTN)。核心将主要通过核心进行管理 库克县卫生服务局艾滋病毒预防、护理和研究中心以及 中西部最大的艾滋病毒护理提供者，尽管所有D-CFAR都将提供临床资源 通过机构和国际合作。

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.