U.S. Department of Health & Human Services
OFFICE OF CLINICAL RESEARCH EDUCATION AND COLLABORATION OUTREACH
Overview
Programs
Resources
Staff
Our Work
Clinical Research Training
One of NIH's goals is "to develop, maintain, and renew scientific, human, and physical resources that will ensure the Nation's capability to prevent disease." Training and education are the means to provide these capabilities. The Office of Clinical Research Education and Collaboration Outreach has the responsibility for courses which provide clinical research training for the spectrum of investigators and others involved in clinical research.
- Introduction to the Principles and Practice of Clinical Research
- Principles of Clinical Pharmacology
- Clinical Research Training On-Line Course for Principal Investigators
- Ethical and Regulatory Aspects of Clinical Research
- NIH Summer Course in Clinical and Translational Research
- NIH-Duke Master's Program
- Sabbatical in Clinical Research Management
Funding Opportunities
The Office of Clinical Research Education and Collaboration Outreach administers 2 funding programs: Opportunities for Collaborative Research at the NIH Clinical Center (U01) and the Bench-to-Bedside Program (BtB). The U01 is a mechanism to establish collaborations between extramural (Non-NIH) investigators and NIH intramural investigators and to take advantage of the unique research opportunities available at the NIH Clinical Center. Whereas the BtB Program funds research teams seeking to translate basic scientific findings into therapeutic interventions for patients and to increase understanding of important disease processes.
- Opportunities for Collaborative Research at the Clinical Center (UO1)
- NIH Bench-to-Bedside and Back Program
Scientific Review Process
Scientific Review includes the initial concept and full protocol review, annual and quadrennial review of the ongoing protocol, and review of substantive amendments to the protocol that pose new scientific questions. These reviews become a part of the protocol record, are made available to the IRB and NIH leadership. The policy may be obtained here [306KB PDF].
Biomedical Translational Research Information System (BTRIS)
The Biomedical Translational Research Information System (BTRIS) is a resource available to the NIH intramural community that brings together clinical research data from the Clinical Center and other NIH Institutes and Centers.
Searching the NIH Website
This 10 minute video, "Searching the NIH Website: How to Find Research, Researchers, Biospecimens, Unusual Resources, Training, Partnership Opportunities, and Clinical Studies in the Intramural Research Program," demonstrates how to locate various content applicable to the researcher or study subject using the NIH website.