USC Joins ResearchMatch

USC has joined Research Match, a national platform for potential subjects seeking to participate in clinical trials. There are currently 112 participating institutions and more than 84,676 volunteers nationwide waiting to be matched! www.researchmatch.org

Researchers register themselves and their IRB approved studies with Reach Match. The researcher can view data about volunteers and create a list of people that they think would be a good fit for their study. The researcher submits a contact message that is sent to those volunteers. If the volunteer wants to learn more they reply ‘yes’ and the volunteer’s actual contact information is given to the researcher.

Update on USC Clinical Trials Office

Tom Buchanan, Vice Dean for Research, Keck School of Medicine (KSOM), has announced several changes to the USC Clinical Trials Office (CTO) in addition to CTO moving to KSOM:

CTO will contact PIs to determine which of unactivated trials are still open to enrollment
Sponsored Projects Accounting (SPA) will be integrated into the CTO
A new CTO webpage will soon be made live
CTO staff will be increased to handle new trials more expediently
Training sessions for the OnCore clinical trial management system
'Power Plans' will replace Research Order Forms (ROFs) in the Keck electronic health record system (Cerner). To facilitate research billing, Power Plans will contain information from the Medicare coverage analysis (MCA) on research vs. standard-of-care procedures.

Read the Jan 15 CTO Update
Read the Dec 21 CTO Update

New CITI Courses

The Collaborative Institutional Training Initiative (CITI) online platform has new course offerings:

Clinical Research Coordinator (CRC)
Disaster Planning for the Research Enterprise (DPRE)
Export Compliance (EC)
Good Clinical Practice (GCP) for Clinical Trials with Investigational Drugs and Medical Devices (U.S. FDA focus) Spanish
Good Laboratory Practice (GLP)

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