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The Pediatric General Clinical Research Center at the University of Colorado Denver and The Children’s Hospital is excited to signal a new era in child health research by changing our most fundamental symbol … our name. As evidence of the transformation taking place in clinical and translational research, the Pediatric GCRC is now known as the Pediatric Clinical Translational Research Center (Pediatric CTRC).

For 43 years, the Pediatric GCRC has provided resources, training and infrastructure to conduct exceptional patient-oriented clinical research within the communities of The Children’s Hospital, UCD, Denver Health, and the University of Colorado Hospital. We will continue providing the same outstanding services on which investigators and research subjects have come to rely, and with our new name aim to strengthen our focus as a cutting edge child health research resource within the successful UCD/TCH research enterprise.

As we move forward over the coming months and plan our relocation to the new state-of-the-art Children’s Hospital facilities at Fitzsimons, you can anticipate subsequent and equally important announcements that will demonstrate the transition of our GCRC into the Pediatric CTRC. We will also be active partners in the planning process for the future application to the NIH for the new Institutional Clinical and Translational Science Award.

Our CTRC remains a part of the The General Clinical Research Center program created over 40 years ago as part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) under the National Center for Research Resources' (NCRR) Division for Clinical Research Resources (DCRR). GCRCs make up a network of approximately 80 locations around the country that provide optimal settings for medical investigators to conduct safe, controlled, state-of-the-art, in-patient and out-patient studies of both children and adults. Generally GCRC investigators receive their primary funding from other NIH components. They may however also receive non-NIH funding from peer-reviewed agencies at the federal, state or local level, or even from private organizations. GCRCs provide the professional, hospital-based facilities where this research can be conducted with trained support staff to assist in conducting controlled studies. Ancillary costs associated with testing related to research may also be absorbed by the GCRC upon approval.