Clinical Research Support

Participant and Clinical Interactions (PCI) will increase efficiencies of research administration and improve access to clinical research facilities for scientifically and ethically high-quality clinical and translational research by providing services on rigorous scientific review, research grant proposal preparation and submission, budget development and management, regulatory compliance, and research monitoring and improvement.

The Clinical Trials Governance Board was instituted to coordinate and oversee all clinical trial activity at UTHSC. Under the leadership of UTHSC’s Associate Vice Chancellor for Clinical Trials, the CTGB was provided with funds to support clinical trials across campus and further developing the infrastructure to create interdisciplinary clinical and translational research.

Operating as a separate 501(c)(3) subsidiary of the University of Tennessee Research Foundation, the Clinical Trials Network of Tennessee was created to enable the UTHSC clinical research faculty to design, solicit, and conduct robust statewide clinical trials with the overarching goal of providing new therapeutics and medical devices aimed at improving the health of all Tennesseans. CTN2 memorandums of understanding and articulation agreements are being signed with each partner hospital location.

To learn more about the Clinical Trials Network of Tennessee, please visit the CTN2 website.

The University of Tennessee Research Foundation is a non-profit 501(c)(3) separate organization that promotes the commercialization of UT intellectual property, encourages an entrepreneurial culture, contributes to state and regional economic development, and promotes research and education to benefit the people of Tennessee and beyond.

To learn more about the University of Tennessee Research Foundation, please visit the UTRF website.