Additional Resources
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Across the University of Michigan, many different organizations help make clinical research possible. We have specialized centers for certain diseases or groups of diseases, organizations that help researchers conduct their studies, and oversight bodies that make sure research is carried out with respect for participants and in accordance with the law.
Visit these links to learn more about each!
- Cardiovascular Center
- Center for the Advancement of Clinical Research
- Center for Gene Therapy
- Center for Integrative Genomics
- Center for Sleep Science
- Chronic Pain and Fatigue Research Center
- Comprehensive Cancer Center
- Comprehensive Epilepsy Center
- Depression Center
- Division of Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine
- General Clinical Research Center
- Geriatrics Center
- HIV/AIDS Treatment Program
- Institutional Review Board - Behavioral Sciences
- Institutional Review Board - Health Sciences
- Institutional Review Board - Medical School (IRB-MED)
- Kellogg Eye Center
- Kresge Hearing Research Institute
- Metabolism, Endocrinology & Diabetes Division (weight loss, diabetes, acromegaly)
- Michigan Alzheimer's Disease Research Center
- Michigan Diabetes Research and Training Center
- Michigan Integrative Medicine program (complementary & alternative medicine)
- Michigan Transplant Center
- Model Spinal Cord Injury Care System
- Molecular and Behavioral Neuroscience Institute
- Nicotine Research Laboratory
- Program for Understanding Neurological Diseases (ALS, neuropathy)
- Stroke Program
- U-M Vice President for Research
- U-M VP for Research - Human Volunteers in Research page
- Wilson's Disease Center of Excellence
- Women's Health Center - Women's Health Research
Resources Beyond U-M
- Centerwatch.org (operated by Thomson Corporation)
- Clinicaltrials.gov (U.S. government database)
- Clinical Trials online tutorial from Medline Plus/National Institutes of Health
- Food and Drug Administration Clinical Trials page
- Healthfinder (U.S. government database)
- Should I Enter a Clinical Trial? (For seriously ill adults, from the nonprofit ECRI agency)
- Medicare Clinical Trials Coverage
