FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Christopher Smalley, (617) 638-8491
June 28, 1999
BOSTON UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER RECEIVES CLINICAL RESEARCH AWARD FROM THE NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH
BOSTON, MA - Boston University Medical Center's (BUMC) Office of Clinical Research (OCR) recently received one of 35 Clinical Research Curriculum Awards from the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
The NIH award, to be known at BUMC as the CREST Program (Clinical RESearch and Training), provides nearly one million dollars over the next five years to create new courses, seminars, mentoring opportunities and other activities at BUMC designed to provide rigorous training in the science and ethics underlying human subject research.
"As new scientific advances pour out of our laboratories, it has become critical that we train a cadre of clinical investigators who know how to transfer those advances from the lab bench to the patient's bedside in the fullest, safest and most ethical manner possible. CREST will allow BUSM to become one of the leading institutions in the country in providing such training," said Deborah Cotton, MD, director, Office of Clinical Research, BUMC.
The CREST Program will bring together faculty and fellows from throughout BUMC and the Sargent College of Allied Health Professionals at Boston University and other key laboratories and investigators associated with Boston University.
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