Facilities and Resources

The UTHSC Clinical Research Center (CRC) is led by Dr. Sam Dagogo-Jack, and provides support services and staff that improve the quality and efficiency of the conduct of clinical research studies. It does this by standardizing operational procedures and educational requirements and by centrally scheduling research staff independent of clinic site location.  The CRC provides state of the art clinical research support services, space, equipment, personnel and leadership required to conduct high quality clinical and translational studies by the UT faculty, trainees, and students. The UT CRC is a catalyst for major transformation of the research culture that stimulates clinical research among UT partner institutions and organizations by expanding the clinical research capacity and improving the quality and efficiency of support services in the CRC.  The CRC also provides the resources and infrastructure for the ethical conduct of clinical research in adults and children. Further, the CRC serves as a venue for mentoring students, trainees, and faculty in the discipline of clinical research.  For more information about the CRC please visit their website.

The UT Endocrinology/Lipoprotein Lab has been a State of Tennessee, CLIA and CAP licensed medical laboratory for over 30 years. The lab is located on the University of Tennessee Health Science Center campus and has been providing state of the art clinical and research services to the University of Tennessee, the community and national institutions during this time. Dr. Frankie Stentz is the Medical Lab Director and Dr. Tom Hughes is the Clinical Director. The lab performs tests in the areas of Diabetes, Thyroid Function, Bone Metabolism, Cardiac Markers, Inflammation and Oxidative Stress, Reproductive Endocrinology, Lipid profiles, Chemistry profiles, Complete Blood Count, Adrenal and Pituitary function, Anemia, and other Analytes (see list of available assays) on human and some cell culture and animal specimens.  The lab only provides services for referring physicians and research investigators for their human or animal research studies.  For further information on testing availability, prices and contract services please contact us at 901-448-5803 or via email fstentz@uthsc.edu.

Generating hypotheses from huge data sets is often challenging, and lack of complex analysis of data might lead to weak hypotheses. To overcome these issues and to assist researchers in building hypotheses from raw data, the CFRI Biomedical Informatics Core (BMIC) provides an informatics resource called the PRD (Pediatric Research Database). The PRD is a de-identified clinical research database designed to make secondary use of rich data sources. This database allows researchers to query large patient populations to identify small subsets based on certain inclusion and exclusion criteria. Contact the BMIC if you would like to use the PRD.

The UTHSC Research Bioinformatics Core has the computational resource to process 80 next generation sequencing samples simultaneously. The server systems can perform sequence alignment, assembly, and calculate differential expression of genes. Please contact Dr. Daniel Johnson for consultation if you need any of these resources for your research.