Program Background
” BUMC’s Clinical Research Curriculum Award from the NIH”
Boston University Medical Center received a Clinical Research Curriculum Award from the National Institutes of Health, one of only 35 academic health centers nationwide to receive such funding. This grant, commonly called a K30 award, was created to address a critical national shortage in the number of clinical investigators in the United States. The grant will provide nearly one million dollars over the next few years to create new courses, seminars, mentoring opportunities and other activities designed to provide rigorous training in the science and ethics underlying human subject research.
Dr. David Felson, Professor of Medicine and Public Health at BUSM, is the principal investigator of the grant which is referred to as the CREST Program (Clinical RESearch Training ). Other faculty who have leadership roles in the program include Drs. Thomas Moore, Deborah Cotton, Joseph Vita, Richard Saitz, Rebecca Silliman, Wayne LaMorte, Adrienne Cupples, Ann Aschengrau, Howard Bauchner, Elaine Hylek and Janice Weinberg.
According to Dr. Deborah Cotton, CREST Program Co-Investigator and Chair of the CREST Advisory Committee, “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 enable Boston University to become one of the leading institutions in the country in providing such training.”
The CREST program brings together faculty and fellows from throughout Boston University including its schools of medicine, dentistry and public health, Boston Medical Center, the Sargent College of Allied Health Professions and other key laboratories and investigators on the Charles River Campus. For more information about the CREST program, please feel free to contact Nilsa Carrasquillo, Office Manager & CREST Program Coordinator ncarras@bu.edu or 617-638-5180.
