The Translational Research Resource Core (TRRC) is an ancillary Core, fully supported by Institutional funds, which is available to HSDRC Investigators. The TRCC was conceived in 2005 to meet the goals of the NIH Roadmap by enabling investigators working directly and indirectly in the area of skin disease research to study human populations. The Core is led jointly by a molecular epidemiologist and by a basic scientist with considerable expertise using human tissue specimens for research. The Core has mastered regulatory and IRB issues, created the infrastructure for recruiting study participants when they present as patients in the ambulatory or inpatient setting, and has streamlined methods for collecting, processing, and storing biological samples, either linked to clinical data or anonymized as required by individual studies using IRB-approved protocols.
The Translational Research Resource Core provides:
1) education on human studies regulatory issues and helps to write and submit IRB applications.
2) a database/programming service that enables recruitment and tracking of study participants and associated clinical specimens.
3) a biological sample processing service that includes collection, processing and storage using high quality control.
4) biostatistical services with education on quantitative methods and study design. These include, for example, differences between observational and interventional studies, and cohort versus case-control studies. As part of this service, investigators have access to courses at BWH and at the Harvard School of Public Health.
| Director: Abrar Qureshi, M.D., M.P.H. Co-Director: Hans Widlund, Ph.D. Widlund Lab Website |
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