Johns Hopkins Medicine announced today that Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) will join the Johns Hopkins Clinical Research Network, a regional alliance of academic and community-based medical centers that fosters multisite clinical research. The network offers opportunities for physician-scientists to collaborate and share scientific information with one another and to expand their capacity to conduct clinical and translational research. Additionally, the network provides patients with access to clinical trials in their local communities.
"VCU is an internationally recognized academic institution, and we are looking forward to VCU being an active collaborator in the Johns Hopkins Clinical Research Network," says Adrian Dobs, M.D., M.H.S., the network's director and a professor of medicine and oncology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. "We anticipate the network will provide opportunities for individuals in Virginia to participate in new and innovative research projects."
"This new collaboration between Johns Hopkins and Virginia Commonwealth University and our clinical hospital partners provides a platform for clinical trials of new treatments across the Virginia, Maryland and D.C. region," says F. Gerard Moeller, M.D., associate vice president for clinical research at VCU and director of the Wright Center for Clinical and Translational Research. "This will allow VCU Health System to have access to additional novel research therapies for a variety of diseases. Patients within VCU Health System will have access to novel treatments through the research network that they would potentially otherwise need to travel outside of Virginia to access, so this is a win for VCU, VCU Health System and our patients."
