The primary objective of the University of California, Los Angeles General Clinical Research Center (UCLA-GCRC) is to make available to medical scientists the resources necessary for the conduct of clinical research. To this end, the UCLA-GCRC provides inpatient and outpatient rooms, a sample processing facility, a facility for computerized data management and analysis (i.e., computer center) and the support personnel (administrator, nurses, dietitian, computer systems manager, biostatistician, et al.), supplies and equipment necessary to perform high quality clinical research studies on healthy subjects and patients with disease.

The UCLA-GCRC encourages collaboration among investigators in the clinical and basic sciences, provides an environment for studies of normal and abnormal body functions and for investigations of the cause, progression, prevention, control and cure of human disease.

The UCLA-GCRC also seeks to serve as an optimal setting for the performance of controlled clinical investigation by scientists supported by the Public Health Service (PHS) or other peer-reviewed sources; to encourage, develop and maintain a national corps of expert clinical investigators; and to provide resources in which advances in basic scientific knowledge may be translated into new or improved methods of health care.

The UCLA-GCRC is not intended to replace the usual mechanism of grant-in-aid for biomedical research by investigators. It is not intended to substitute for departmental facilities which serve individual research needs, or for facilities which are used in the educational or administrative duties of faculty. The UCLA-GCRC is also not intended to fully fund clinical research studies -- funding for the non-clinical aspects of the research studies should be provided by peer-reviewed sources or non-peer- reviewed sources. Thus it is intended that the applicant investigator provide and display resources that will be directly applied to the proposed research project.