Website: ACTRI Clinic
Primary Contact: ctri-clinic@ucsd.edu
Location: ACTRI Building, 1st floor, 1E 200-507
Activity Description: The Clinic contains eight exam rooms and one consultation room where participants and staff can discuss informed consent or other confidential information; two treatment rooms with two beds each, which accommodate research procedures; a medication room; lab processing room; centralized nursing station; and an experimental pharmacy.
Services offered at the clinic include conscious sedation; infusions; biopsies; oral glucose tolerance testing; pharmacokinetics studies with sample processing; phlebotomy (up to 600 ml); collection, processing, and shipping of specimens; dietary consultation; indirect calorimetry; and exercise testing. Equipment includes five infusion chairs, five exam tables, DEXA scanner, portable ultrasound, treadmill systems, a metabolic cart, and, in the near future, a Pyxis machine. Overnight stays can also be accommodated.
Major Equipment: SORVALL ST16R 120V (Centrifuge), Viasprint (Exercise Bike), 101934 EPIQ 7 Diamond Select System
Website: Biomedical Informatics (BMI) Clinic
Primary Contact: https://ucsd.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_5o5hH33ArePPA21
Location: ACTRI Building, 2nd floor, 2W 500-5172E 326, 330, 327 H11
Activity Description: Many departments within UCSD are conducting research requiring stringent FDA policies for use of electronic signatures. This is a specialized regulatory requirement involving protected health information (PHI) and compliance with complex federal 21 CFR Part 11 and HIPAA laws. DocuSign with Part 11 support is the most reputable approved service provider that is recognized by UCSD’s regulatory offices such as Office of IRB Administration (OIA) and Compliance. At present, there is not a campus-wide central offering to meet these needs.
Website: Biostatstics, Epidemiology & Research Design (BERD)
Primary Contact: https://ucsd-actri.jotform.com/222345304434043
Location: ACTRI Building, 2nd floor, 2W 500-517
Activity Descripton: The Biostatistics Unit supports the mission of the ACTRI to provide research resources, training, and collaboration opportunities for ACTRI scientists, health care providers, and the community. We assist investigators at every stage of the research process to produce results that are rigorous, meaningful, and easy to communicate. We believe that the biostatistician should play an integral role as collaborator and co-investigator.
Website: Center for Community Health (CCH) Consultations
Primary Contact: https://ucsdcommunityhealth.org/contact-us/
Activity Description: UC San Diego-Center for Community Health provides community partners learner-centered, multi-layered training opportunities and innovative evidence on best practice-based strategies and techniques to improve health outcomes for low-income, under-served communities with the largest health disparities. CCH offers a wide range of services to help community organizations, local leaders, community members, and others interested in creating healthy places to live, play, work and live. Our team of experts provides advanced skills and abilities in: Active transportation, Coalition building, Community food projects, Worksite wellness, Faith-based wellness, Farmworker health, Farm-to-fork initiatives, Food justice approaches to health equity, Healthy retail, Media advocacy, Photovoice, Public will building/community organizing, social marketing, School wellness and youth engagement, and so much more.
Website: Clinical Trial Support Services
Primary Contact: actri-ctss@health.ucsd.edu
Location: ACTRI Building, East Room 225
Activity Description: The ACTRI CTSS supports approximately 100 clinical trials every year. Our services are cost effective as we provide both fee-based services for specific tasks (e.g., regulatory submissions) and hourly rate services (e.g., IDE/IND consultations) based on type of need. At the CTSS, an hourly rate can be used based on a percent effort to an individual investigator for a specified period of time, and may be tailored to support a single service or multiple services.
Website: Clinical Research Coordinators
Primary Contact: Leander Lazaro
Location: ACTRI Building, 2nd floor, 2W 500-517
Activity Description: CTRI clinical coordinator services are provided on an hourly basis or can be assigned at a percent effort to an individual investigator for a specified period of time, and may be tailored to support a single service or multiple services. Researchers often refer to our services as costeffective because we provide services and fees based on what is needed by the PIs, which varies from the beginning to the end of a study, the continuation of a study, or closeouts. At CTRI's Center for Clinical Research (CCR), the clinical coordinators work on studies that range from drug therapy for liver cancer to metabolic studies, with duties that encompass scheduling subject visits and managing data bases to measuring vital signs, drawing blood samples, and performing EKGs and lab work. The CTRI clinical research coordinators support approximately 150 clinical trials every year.
Website: Dissemination & Implementation Science Center
Primary Contact: disc@health.ucsd.edu
Location: ACTRI Building
Activity Description: We provide project consultation and technical assistance related to dissemination and implementation science methods, measures, models, frameworks, and study design. We can provide consultation on grant proposals, publications, ongoing projects, and other clinical tools.
Website: Flow Cytometry Core
Primary Contact: Myungja Ro
Location: ACTRI Building, Room L2E 317
Activity Description: The flow cytometry core offers ACTRI researchers in house access to a high end flow cytometer that is mostly self-operated by users after an initial training provided by the core manager. Limited operator assisted service will also be provided by the core.
Major Equipment: Yeti/ZE5 Flow Cytometer
Website: Translational Research Technology Center
Primary Contact: https://ucsd-actri.jotform.com/232777038956874
Location: ACTRI Building, LL 2E 330
Activity Description: The Biomarker Laboratory provides analyte determinations on a variety of human and animal materials principally through immunoassays. The Biomarkers Laboratory currently offers over 125 validated assays. This number is growing, as we are continually adding new assays based on requests from ACTRI members or on anticipated needs using emerging technologies. If an assay is not available within the Biomarkers Laboratory, we will develop it in-house or assist in identifying a laboratory that performs the assay at a reasonable cost.
Website: Project Management Professional Services
Primary Contact: actri-ctss@health.ucsd.edu
Activity Description: Most department and studies need this service on a part time or ad hoc basis, which is best served through a recharge service as needed. Departments which have been identified as needing Project Manager support due to lack of internal resources are: infectious diseases, hepatology, pediatrics, and anesthesiology.