The UCD CRC was established in 2006 to deliver high quality, world class, patient-centred research. Together with our hospital partners and the UCD School of Medicine, we have built a skilled and committed research team who help investigators to design and conduct clinical research to the highest standards.
Our expert team work closely with our internationally renowned investigators to test new ways of treating patients to improve their lives. Our research has been incorporated into clinical guidelines and has been translated into clinical practice to improve outcomes.
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The Mater Misericordiae University Hospital is a major teaching hospital, based at Eccles Street, Phibsborough, on the northside of Dublin, Ireland. It is managed by Ireland East Hospital Group.
St. Vincent's University Hospital is a teaching hospital located at Elm Park, south of the city of Dublin, Ireland.
The National Maternity Hospital, popularly known as Holles Street Hospital, is a large maternity hospital in Ireland.
The National Rehabilitation Hospital in Dún Laoghaire, Dublin, is an Irish publicly funded hospital that provides rehabilitation treatment for patients who have a physical or cognitive disability due to illness or injury.
Wexford General Hospital is an acute general hospital in Wexford, the county town of County Wexford in the Republic of Ireland.
St. Luke's General Hospital is a public hospital located in Kilkenny, County Kilkenny, Ireland. It is managed by Ireland East Hospital Group.
The UCD CRC has created core research infrastructure to support and advance high quality, impactful investigator-led translational and personalised medicine research at the Mater Misericordiae University Hospital and St. Vincent’s University Hospital.
The clinical research infrastructure includes:
Laboratory Infrastructure
UCD CRC on-site laboratory facilities support the immediate processing of biological samples collected during research studies. The laboratory infrastructure at the UCD CRC complements biomedical research facilities on the University campus and includes:
The Core Biomarker laboratory currently houses an automated Abbott ARCHITECT i2000SR, ARCHITECT ci4100, Alinity ci and the Roche Cobas e411 for the high throughput diagnostic analysis of patient samples. The Core lab also has at its disposal an array of semi-automated digital ELISA analysers which include the Quanterix SR-X, Quanterix SP-X and the Bio-Teche Ella. In conjunction with the digital ELISA detectors, the Core lab possesses a number of spectrophotometric detectors for standard Elisa analysis.
The UCD CRC has developed a network of biological resource centres for sample receipt, storage and processing across the hospital campuses in recognition of the importance of access to appropriately consented, well pheno-typed quality controlled biological samples for translational research.
This network includes:
Information Systems
The appropriate use of intelligent and secure IT solutions is key to the Centre’s translational research mission, permitting the generation and exchange of data and information between the ‘bed’ and the ‘bench’.
The UCD CRC is addressing these challenges by implementing cost-effective IT solutions which combine to create a sophisticated clinical research information infrastructure that supports all aspects of clinical research. Specifically, the research teams at the UCD CRC have access to a secure electronic data capture system which enables them to collect coded research data via any device which can connect to the internet.
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