Clinical Studies Core (CSC)
The Clinical Studies Core is a Service Core of the Center for Comparative Medicine and Translational Research (CCMTR). Its mission is to support interactions between clinical and basic research groups within North Carolina State University and to expand collaborative relationships beyond the university with practicing veterinarians, animal owners, and industry partners. The CSC offers support through the following services:
- Assistance with all aspects of clinical investigations, including publicity and case recruitment, patient enrollment, patient visits, sample collection and processing and patient follow-up
- Resources for investigators in the design and implementation of clinical studies.
- Oversight for a repository of veterinary tissue samples to support ongoing and developing studies
- A biospecimen procurement service for researchers
CSC Steering Committee
B. Duncan X. Lascelles, BSc, BVSc, PhD
CSC Steering Committee Chair
Associate Professor, Small Animal Surgery
Department of Clinical Sciences, CVM
Member, CCMTR Mucosal Pathophysiology and Oncology Cores
Matthew Breen, PhD
CSC Director
Professor, Genomics
Department of Molecular Biomedical Sciences, CVM
Member, CCMTR Clinical Genomics and Oncology Cores
Marie Davidian, PhD
William Neal Reynolds Professor, Statistics
Department of Statistics, PAMS and CALS
Leader, CCMTR Biostatistics Core
Marlene Hauck, DVM, PhD
Associate Professor, Oncology
Department of Clinical Sciences, CVM
Member, CCMTR Clinical Genomics and Oncology Cores
Karen Munana, DVM , MS
CSC Director
Associate Professor, Neurology
Department of Clinical Sciences, CVM
Member, CCMTR Clinical Genomics Core
Malcolm Roberts, DVM, PhD, MPH
Professor, Equine Medicine
Population Health and Pathobiology, CVM
CCMTR Emerging & Zoonotic Diseases and Mucosal Pathophysiology Cores
Shelly Vaden, DVM
Professor, Internal Medicine
Department of Clinical Sciences, CVM
Member, CCMTR Allergic Diseases and Clinical Genomics Cores
Jeff Yoder, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Molecular Biomedical Sciences, CVM
Member, CCMTR Emerging & Zoonotic Diseases and Clinical Genomics Cores