Clinical Research
Vice Director: Dr Pierre Dubé, M.D., M.Sc., F.R.C.P. (C)
With a hospital environment conducive to conducting clinical research that is committed to a scientific program which ensures a continuum between laboratory and patients, the CRHMR positions the Clinical Research Axis as a cross-disciplinary axis that is complimentary to the three main research axes of excellence. These include: immunology-oncology, nephrology and vision health. The Clinical Research Axis also has the mandate of providing support to the development of external clinical research and clinical trials conducted with private industry.
Research Areas
Accomplishments and Recent Achievements
Prospects
Research Areas
- Pharmacological development: conducted under strict ethical rules intended to protect patients, clinical trials aim to evaluate new or existing drug effects of biological treatments and medical devices that are likely to improve a disease. In addition to the Centre’s three axes of excellence, this area of research consists of the following clinical specialties: Cardiology, microbiology, anesthetics and intensive care, neurology, orthopedics, rheumatology, endocrinology, gastroenterology, radiooncology, urology, and coagulation and hemostasis.
- Translational research, tissue banks and registries: this area ensures the relationship between basic research and clinical research. Its pivotal role is optimized through the development of such tools as:
- The Quebec Leukemia Cell Bank;
- A kidney tissue bank; A bank of colorectal cancers (in development);
- Project Sentinelle – breast cancer program.
- Evaluative research, technological development and pedagogical research: in addition to being a part of the scientific program of the Centre’s axes of excellence, this area deals with the fields of orthopedics and microbiology.
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Accomplishments and Recent Achievements
- The Junior Investigator-Clinician 1 grant was obtained from the Fonds de Recherche en Santé du Québec by Dr Christian Bocti, Neurologist.
- The Junior Investigator-Clinician 1 grant was awarded to two orthopedists by the Fonds de Recherche en Santé du Québec (M. Lavigne and P.A. Vendittoli).
- Membership with the American College of Surgeons Oncology Group (ACOSOG).
- A donation to the HMR Foundation from the Fondation du Pont pour la Paix was dedicated to orthopedic research.
Prospects
Over the next few years, the Clinical Research Axis will play an increasingly central role in research development at the HMR. By implementing an infrastructure common to all axes and research teams, this axis will participate in achieving the objectives of each area of excellence and in the growth of the research axes and their activities. A partnership will be established with the Montreal Heart Institute’s Centre for Clinical Trial Coordination.In addition to consolidating and promoting research in orthopedics and microbiology, the Clinical Research Axis will support up-and-coming projects on higher mental functions.
Moreover, this unit intends on establishing a close relationship with the HMR’s Centre of Excellence for Nursing Care.
By 2012, the Clinical Research Axis will increase the number of studies resulting from contract agreements with private industry by 20% thanks to the CRHMR’s current developments.