CFAR Clinical Sciences Core

Overview of Services

The Miami CFAR Clinical Sciences Core provides unique clinical resources and scientific leadership for the largest network of HIV investigators in South Florida and promotes high impact HIV translational and multidisciplinary research through partnerships with clinical, socio-behavioral, and basic scientists. The Clinical Sciences Core supports HIV research in adults through fully equipped research units and mobile programs:

• The CFAR Clinical Sciences Core Research Unit located at Jackson Memorial Hospital is located adjacent to the Special Immunology Clinic the largest outpatient clinic for people with HIV in Florida. This exceptional location allows efficient clinic recruitment and enrollment into diverse research projects supporting a myriad of investigators at different career stages, and links potential participants to ongoing cohort studies and clinical trials in all the disciplines of HIV research.

• The PrEP mobile service is a fully equipped mobile clinic and the Rapid Access Wellness Clinic is located at the University of Miami Health System. Both services offer initial and follow-up appointments and community enrollment into HIV prevention studies.

• Pediatric HIV treatment and prevention research studies are conducted by International Maternal, Pediatric, Adolescent AIDS Clinical Trials (IMPAACT) Network Clinical Trials Unit (CTU) team centered in the Bachelor Children's Pediatric Institute and funded by NIAID. The Miami Pediatric CTU at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine has been funded continuously for almost three decades with an outstanding record of performing numerous clinical trials investigating long-term complications of new antiretrovirals for pediatric and adolescent populations affected by HIV and perinatal intervention studies aimed at prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV.

The Clinical Sciences Core supports the goals of the Miami CFAR through the following aims:

1. Provide state-of-the-art facilities for implementation of clinical and translational studies including support for clinical assessments, collection of biological samples, and access to data.
2. Provide research design methodology and technical assistance to meet regulatory standards in research involving human subjects, human data, and biological specimens; and to facilitate training/education of investigators in clinical research.
3. Provide research design and biostatistical support through the CFAR Biostatistics Sub-core of the Biostatistics Collaboration and Consulting Core.

For more information about on-going research at the University of Miami please visit the UMiami Health Research website

Services

Study/Protocol Design & Development

Manuscript Development

Grant Preparation or Review

Regulatory Guidance

Biostatistical Support

Participant Referrals

Access to Stored Cohort Samples & Data Queries 

Clinical Research Unit Space

Phlebotomy/Venipuncture

Blood Processing

Urine Collection & Processing

Saliva Collection & Processing

Hair Collection & Processing

Stool Collection & Processing

Swab Collection

Specimen Storage

Specimen Shipping

Injection of Medications

CLIA Waived General Rapid Tests and Analysis

Anthropometry & Vital Signs

Leadership

Location and hours of operation

Links and Resources

https://med.miami.edu/centers-and-institutes/center-for-aids-research/cores/clinical-sciences-core

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