Clinical Research Units (CRUs)
- June Burke
Clinical Research Units (CRUs) are the safest, most efficient way to perform clinical and translational research and offer an indispensable resource that is widely used and required by our NIH funded investigators. Through protocol review, investigator mentoring, trained nursing staff, protocols performed on the CRUs are planned, vetted, monitored and performed under a similar safety standard to clinical care. Learn more about CRU’s at Johns Hopkins below.
Resource | Description | Link |
Bayview Adult Outpatient and Overnight Clinical Research Unit
| · 14,300 square-feet · Full-service outpatient and inpatient facilities · 10 overnight dedicated research beds including 8 overnight study rooms that have video and audio monitoring capability · Space shared with Outpatient Unit: phlebotomy, interview rooms, procedure rooms, gyn exam room, dental exam room, sample processing lab, -70 freezer, metabolic stress testing resources, DXA, Biodex for muscle strength testing. · Laboratory core services (Research Core Laboratory for research assays, Body Composition Core). | |
East Baltimore Adult Outpatient Clinical Research Unit
| · 5385 square foot unit space on the 3rd Floor of Blalock Building; M-F 7 AM-5 PM · 11 full-service exam rooms, 2 interview rooms, a phlebotomy room, sample processing lab, -70 freezer, infusion center, and a DXA scanner | |
East Baltimore Pediatric Inpatient and Outpatient Clinical Research Unit | · Inpatient and outpatient pediatric care. · 7-bed inpatient unit · 3,225 square foot space on 9N floor of Charlotte R Bloomberg Children’s Building · 7 clinical exam rooms, an infusion facility, 2 procedure rooms, phlebotomy room, research kitchen · Spirometry, metabolic formula room · Pediatric sleep lab | |
East Baltimore Adult Inpatient Clinical Research Unit | · 14 inpatient research beds on a general medical floor · Capacity for continuous cardiac monitoring and biological isolation of subjects receiving potentially infectious agents. | |
Johns Hopkins (Florida) All Children’s Outpatient Clinical Research Unit | · Treats patients in research-intensive studies that require additional monitoring and care. · Research-trained pediatric nurses have a centralized space to carry out functions delegated by the principal investigator on a research protocol — including drawing blood, performing infusions, procuring biorepository samples and monitoring patients taking study medications. | |
ProHealth Center | · A joint program of the GIM Division and the Welch Center for Prevention, Epidemiology, and Clinical Research. · Community-based facility among the nation’s premier centers that conduct prevention-oriented research, with a goal of preventing cardiovascular disease, diabetes, and kidney disease. |
Do you lead a research unit that has the capacity to support other clinical or community-engaged research studies? If you would like to explore ways to leverage your research unit for the benefit of local communities, contact BSPH.research@jh.edu with more information.