General Clinical Research Center

Welcome to the Howard University General Clinical Research Center (GCRC)

The Howard University GCRC is funded by the National Center for Research Resources (NCRR) to provide clinical research facilities to enable the conduct of high quality clinical research into important medical problems. It has a strong record of recruiting African American participants into clinical studies of cardiovascular disease, lipid metabolism, hypertension and mental health issues, among others.

Key personnel include:

Robert Taylor, MD, PhD	GCRC Principal Investigator; Dean, College of Medicine, Howard University
Duane Smoot, MD	Interim Program Director
Thomas Mellman, MD	Associate Program Director
Clive Callender, MD	GCRC Advisory Committee Chair
Deatrice Rotimi, BBA, MEd	Administrative Director
John Kwagyan, PhD	Biostatistician
William Southerland, PhD	Director of Informatics
Jane Otado, PhD	Research Subjects Advocate
Carl Tilghman, BSN	Nurse Manager
Yuanxiu Chen, MD, PhD	Laboratory Manager

The center is located in the 4-West wing of Howard University Hospital.

To contact the GCRC, call (202) 865-GCRC OR (202) 865-4272

For emails, send your message to: gcrc@howard.edu

Investigators should check the Investigators and Forms pages for useful documents.

Howard University General Clinical Research Center (GCRC) is supported by grant number 2M01RR010284 from the National Center for Research Resources (NCRR), a component of the National Institutes of Health (NIH).