Boilerplate summaries - GCRC / CTRU

The paragraphs below describe the patient interaction resources available through the GCRC/CTRU at Stanford. This can be used for grant proposal applications.
Note: This reflects the recent name change. (No longer "SCCTER" but "Spectrum.")

The Stanford Clinical and Translational Research Unit (CTRU) is supported by Spectrum, the Stanford Center for Clinical and Translational Education and Research, funded by the Stanford CTSA grant from the NIH, 1UL1 RR025744. The CTRU was formerly the General Clinical Research Center (GCRC), which has been in continuous operation since 1962, as an NIH-funded core facility for the School of Medicine.

The mission of the Stanford GCRC/CTRU is to facilitate high quality Clinical and Translational Research (CTR) in both pediatric and adult subjects. The CTRU program provides outstanding research nursing, laboratory, and bionutrition services to assist investigators in conducting and managing research studies.  These services include mentorship of junior investigators, outpatient and inpatient research nursing and clinical coordination, laboratory sample processing and specialized assays, and bionutrition research support. The CTRU provides these services to all clinical investigators at Stanford University, under the auspices of Spectrum, which is directed by the senior associate dean for research, Dr. Harry Greenberg. Branimir I. Sikic, MD, Professor of Medicine, is the Co-Director of SCCTER and Director of the CTRU.

Currently, the Stanford CTRU includes ~ 5,000 net sq. ft. of space located in Stanford Hospital. This space includes five examining rooms, three semi-private patient rooms, four private patient rooms, nurses station, administrative offices, laboratory, dietary kitchen, conference room, and investigators’ work room. A video/monitor room used for sleep and video studies. Both inpatient and outpatient studies are performed in this unit. The CTRU Pediatric Component utilizes beds at Lucille Packard Children's Hospital for its inpatient activities.  The facilities of the premature infant research program of the CTRU consist of the intensive care nursery and the intermediate intensive care nursery. The pediatric component also maintains administrative offices on Welch Road and a separate pediatric lab space above the CTRU.

The CTRU has supported many important clinical research accomplishments, including many significant medical advances. Selected highlights since 1962 include, Advances in the cure of Hodgkin’s disease and non-Hodgkin’s lymphomas, cardiac transplantation, dyslipidemias and glucose homeostasis, monoclonal antibody therapies, noninvasive detection of bilirubin production, noninvasive imaging of tissue structure and function and antiviral therapy.