In 1959 Congress directed the National Institutes of Health to establish clinical research centers
throughout the United States to launch an all-out attack on human diseases. It was through this
Congressional mandate that the General Clinical Research Center (GCRC) program was begun. The GCRC
at the University of Florida has been in continuous operation since 1962 and currently
occupies over 9,700 sq. ft. on the third floor of Shands Hospital. It is one of over 70 GCRCs in
major teaching centers throughout the country, where highly qualified investigators have the
opportunity to advance medical knowledge in a clinical setting.
The GCRC is available to all University of Florida faculty members who wish to conduct clinical
research. Each project conducted on the Center must include at least one full-time faculty
physician who assumes overall patient responsibility. No study may be implemented on the GCRC
without prior approval of the University of Florida Institutional Review Board
(Human Subjects Committee) and the CRC Scientific Advisory Committee.
See our Guidelines for Protocol Submission for more details. |
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