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BWH’s General Clinical Research Center (GCRC), funded by the National Institutes of Health for more than 40 years, provides the foundation for advanced, patient-orientated research. Located on the 9th floor of the Tower, the GCRC recently underwent renovations to enhance the hospital’s capabilities in physiological investigation. The redesign and renovation of the research space on 9A will broaden the range of clinical investigations, allowing for more intense, complex and sophisticated research.
“An up-to-date clinical research center is as crucial to the patient-oriented researcher as a well-equipped laboratory is to the basic science researcher,” said Ellen W. Seely, MD, GCRC associate program director, who noted that the area now boasts six updated rooms, a new ultrasound machine and increased workspace for investigators. The six new rooms, together with the five rooms in the GCRC Intensive Physiologic Monitoring Unit, create an eleven bed unit that is arguably the most sophisticated one in the world to perform clinical research.
“Over the past 20 years we have witnessed enormous advances at the bench and have been challenged to continue this momentum on the clinical research side,” said Gordon Williams, MD, GCRC program director. “Our center now has the enhanced capability to apply research to modify human disease, treatments and prevention.”