The primary objective of the University of California, Los Angeles General Clinical Research Center (UCLA-GCRC) is to make available to medical scientists the resources necessary for the conduct of clinical research. To this end, the UCLA-GCRC provides inpatient and outpatient rooms, a sample processing facility, a facility for computerized data management and analysis (i.e., computer center) and the support personnel (administrator, nurses, dietitian, computer systems manager, biostatistician, et al.), supplies and equipment necessary to perform high quality clinical research studies on healthy subjects and patients with disease.

     The UCLA-GCRC encourages collaboration among investigators in the clinical and basic sciences, provides a controlled environment for investigations of the cause, progression, prevention, control and cure of human disease.

     The UCLA-GCRC also seeks to serve as an optimal setting for the performance of controlled clinical investigation by scientists supported by the Public Health Service (PHS) or other peer-reviewed sources; to encourage, develop and maintain a national corps of expert clinical investigators; and to provide resources in which advances in basic scientific knowledge may be translated into new or improved methods of health care.

     The UCLA-GCRC is not intended to replace the usual mechanism of grant-in-aid for biomedical research by investigators. It is not intended to substitute for departmental facilities which serve individual research needs, or for facilities which are used in the educational or administrative duties of faculty. The UCLA-GCRC partially funds clinical research studies -- funding for the non-clinical aspects of the research studies should be provided by peer-reviewed sources or non-peer- reviewed sources. Applicant investigator are asked to provide and display resources that will be directly applied to the proposed research project in collabration with the GCRC resource.

     In the process of achieving its primary objective, the UCLA-GCRC serves as a resource for teaching and training of medical students, residents and the allied heath care profesionals. The resources of the UCKA-GCRC are available to investigators from any department of the UCLA Health Care System. The principal investigator or at least one co-investigator of the research protocol must have credentials and admitting privileges to the UCLA-GCRC.

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