Consultation:

• Consultation on best practices in health communications and study recruitment
• Consultation on clinical research study design and data collection
• Consultation and administrative support in seeking and maintaining regulatory approval for research in human subjects

• This includes equipment associated with patient assessments (blood pressure cuffs, scales, etc.) and Core personnel to assist study subjects locate the office(s) and exam room(s) being used for research.
  • Hope Clinic
  • Ponce Clinic
    • Submit a request to conduct research at the Ponce Clinic >
      Note: This request should be submitted prior to GROC submission and either before or at the same time as Emory IRB submission
  • Emory University Hospital Midtown
  • Atlanta VA Medical Center

Access to Shared Equipment:

• Equipment for separating and cryopreserving biospecimens
  • Centrifuges
  • -70 and -150 degree Celsius freezers
  • cell counters

Access to Data:

• CFAR HIV Disease Registry Data Extraction ($150/hour)
  The CFAR HIV Disease Registry contains historical information from the medical records of patients with HIV. To request access to HIV Disease Registry data, complete both forms below:
  • CFAR HIV Disease Registry Data Pull Request form >
  • CFAR HIV Disease Registry Scope of Work form >
    This document is used by the analysts to collect specific data requirements and case/data definitions for the project.
  • CFAR Science Core Service Voucher:
    Apply for a CFAR Science Core Service Voucher to offset costs related to a CFAR HIV Disease Registry data pull for an unfunded study. For more information on this opportunity, visit the ‘Request a Service’ page.

Access to Materials:

• Collection of biologic research specimens (PBMC, plasma, serum, swabs, cell pellet, breast milk, urine, hair, tears, lymph node, gut and rectal biopsies)
• Clinical Research Registry and Linked Specimen Repository. To request any of the specimens listed below, complete the CFAR Specimen Request form > 
  • Stage of Infection:
    • HIV exposed
    • HIV uninfected
    • Acute HIV infection
    • Recent HIV infection
    • Long-term non-progressor
  • Virologic Control:
    • Elite controller
    • Viremic controller
  • Co-infections:
    • Acute Hepatitis B
    • Acute Hepatitis C
    • SARS-CoV-2/COVID-19
  • Treatment Status:
    • Anti-retroviral treatment naïve
    • Anti-retroviral treatment naïve, beginning therapy (with samples collected longitudinally while on therapy)
• Support for Clinical Studies (including Clinical Trials):
  For early-stage investigators or investigators new to HIV:
  • Protocol design and writing
  • Regulatory and IRB application development, submission, and maintenance assistance
  • Research Match search of a clinical research registry to identify persons with HIV with specific characteristics as potential study participants—pulling from a pool of 1000s of potential participants living with HIV
    • Recruitment and enrollment of volunteers in clinical trials and studies (through ResearchMatch.org)
    • Phlebotomy and specimen collection, processing, inventory, storage, and shipping
    • Data collection, management and analysis
    • Study conduct (research nursing and oversight) and volunteer retention
  • Quality management for clinical research
    • Report and manuscript preparation
  • For established investigators with larger projects:
    • Study design assistance
    • Grant application collaboration
    • Recruitment of volunteers in clinical trials (through ResearchMatch.org)
    • Collaboration in conduct of funded projects

Research Support Services:

• Hemapheresis clinical services ($1,160/event)
• Leukaphresis processing ($2,246/event)
• Phlebotomy and consent ($45/event)
• Research recruitment clinical services ($35/hour)
• Rectal tissue collection ($300/each)
• Regulatory support ($40/hour)

Other Services:

• Community engagement
• Community education
• Linkages to other potential data and specimen resources for HIV research studies (i.e. MACS-WIHS Combined Cohort Study, HIV research CABs, NA-ACCORD, ACTG, IMPAACT)

• One-on-one training for junior faculty, post-doctoral fellows, students, and research staff in the conduct of clinical research in HIV/AIDS
• Training on the development of research protocols and funding applications for clinical research
• Opportunities to present and get feedback on proposed and current research studies
  • Contact the Clinical Research Core to learn about the CFAR Translational Research Interdisciplinary Group (TRIG).