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Clinical & Translational Research (CTR) Resources

Clinical Trials & Human Subjects


SPCTRM – Stanford/Packard Center for Translational Research in Medicine

SPCTRM serves faculty and clinical research personnel at Stanford in the School of Medicine, SUMC, LPCH and VAPAHCS. Summary of Services:

  • Protocol development through biostatistics and informatics consultation services
  • Study budgeting
  • Contracts with industry and grant sources
  • Automated billing, accounting, and internal financial auditing
  • Sponsor billing and study closeout
  • Internal compliance monitoring
  • Outpatient clinic space
  • Clinical laboratory consultation and samples processing
  • Study source document archiving
  • Research coordinator services: education, orientation & training; health screening; competency testing
  • Faculty investigator education and training
  • External audit and review support
  • Stanford Clinical Trials Website
  • Single point of contact for clinical research issues

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Clinical Trial RPMs

Research Process Managers (RPMs) for clinical trials, listed by Department. More »

CTRU – Clinical and Translational Research Unit (currently the GCRC)

The Clinical and Translational Research Unit (CTRU), currently the General Clinical Research Center (GCRC), is the major clinical research facility for Stanford University School of Medicine. With patient care units in Stanford University Hospital and Lucile Packard Children's Hospital, the center plays a crucial role in the school's bench-to-bedside research mission.  The goals of the CTRU are to provide an optimal facility for the conduct of patient-oriented research, to translate basic scientific knowledge into a better understanding and treatment of human diseases, and to train health professionals in clinical research. More »

GCRC

See CTRU - Clinical and Translational Research Unit. More »

HIPAA

The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 ("HIPAA") and its regulations (the "Privacy Rule" and the "Security Rule") govern the way certain health information is collected, maintained, used and disclosed by Stanford University, Stanford Hospitals, and their benefits plans. More »

Human Subjects Research

Stanford University Research Compliance Office  and IRB website. Includes definitions, IRB meeting schedule, IRB members, eprotocol link, medical and non-medical consents, policies, Stanford Human Research Protection Program (HRPP), HIPAA. More »

Industry-Sponsored Clinical Trials

Definition of Industry-Sponsored Trials, Process, IRB Review fees. More »

Stanford Clinical Trials Website

SPCTRM provides a single, comprehensive and publicly accessible database of trials being performed at Stanford, or where Stanford University is the lead sponsor. More »

Stanford Cancer Clinical Trials Office

Help for cancer-related trials: writing protocols, contracts, budgets, research coordinators. More »