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clinical research center

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clinical research center,
an organization, often associated with a medical school or a teaching hospital, that studies, analyzes, correlates, and describes medical cases. Such centers usually have extensive laboratory facilities and specialized staffs of physicians and medical technicians. Clinical research centers often offer free or very inexpensive medical care for patients participating in various research programs and often produce significant new medical information distributed through articles, journals, reports, seminars, and lectures. Funding for such facilities may be generated through minimal fees charged for various medical services and through grants.


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A former member of the Foundation's Scientific Review Committee, Delitto was the principal investigator of the Foundation-funded Clinical Research Center at the University of Pittsburgh (1997-1999).
Providing a pool of information to help researchers determine how these variations interact with the environment to cause disease is the ultimate goal of the Environmental Polymorphism Registry (EPR), which is sponsored by the NIEHS and conducted in collaboration with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's General Clinical Research Center.
 
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