Physician Inquiries
The Clinical Research Center supports research in a wide variety of biomedical disciplines. Much of our research explores human physiology and metabolism in health and disease, or involves the development of new diagnostic probes and tools.

Some of our protocols call for patients with specific disorders, generally with the purpose of studying or defining the nature of the disease, improving diagnostic methods, or to learn more about the genetics of the condition. Examples of studies of this kind include those looking at Cushing's syndrome, thyroid hormone resistance, constitutional delay of puberty in adolescents, noninsulin-dependent diabetes mellitus, mild asthma, and polycystic ovary syndrome. Please contact CRC Patient Care Manager Julie Helms for further information about these and other protocols.

In general, the CRC supports a limited number of phase III clinical trials. Please contact CRC Patient Care Manager Julie Helms for further information about ongoing clinical trials at the CRC.

Physicians are invited to contact Physicians' Access Services at 1-800-824-2282 to refer a patient to the University of Chicago Hospitals.

Physicians with questions about phase I-II cancer treatment trials are invited to contact the office of the director of the University of Chicago Cancer Research Center at (773) 702-6180 for more information.

Patient Inquiries
The Clinical Research Center supports research in a wide variety of biomedical disciplines.

Much of our research describes the ways in which the healthy body works - or doesn't work, in the case of selected diseases. Other studies map out the pattern by which diseases are inherited, or explore the way the healthy body uses and excretes various kinds of drugs, for example.

Some of our researchers recruit patients with specific disorders, often with the purpose of studying or defining the nature of the disease, improving diagnostic methods, or to learn more about the genetics of the condition. Examples of studies of this kind include those looking at diabetes, mild asthma, delayed puberty in adolescents, Cushing's syndrome, thyroid hormone resistance, and polycystic ovary syndrome. Please contact CRC Patient Care Manager Julie Helms for further information about these and other protocols.

Many "clinical trials", that is, studies in which patients with specific diseases are sought to test the effectiveness of new drugs or other treatments, are conducted in other parts of the University of Chicago Medical Center.

Patients may wish to contact the University of Chicago Hospitals HEALTHLINK office at 1-800 289-6333 for information about treatment clinical trials being conducted outside the Clinical Research Center at the University of Chicago, or for a referral to a University of Chicago physician.

Patients with questions about cancer should contact the office of the director of the University of Chicago Cancer Research Center at (773) 702-6180 for information about current cancer clinical trials and treatments.

Links
Please click here to view CRC research-related Web pages.