betty and guy beatty center for integrated - Inova Health System
betty and guy beatty center for integrated - Inova Health System
betty and guy beatty center for integrated - Inova Health System
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CENTER FOR INTEGRATED RESEARCH<br />
INOVA HEALTH SYSTEM<br />
Since the opening of the Betty <strong>and</strong> Guy Beatty Center <strong>for</strong> Integrated<br />
Research at <strong>Inova</strong> <strong>Health</strong> <strong>System</strong> in 2008, the <strong>center</strong> has focused on<br />
providing an <strong>integrated</strong> <strong>and</strong> efficient research infrastructure <strong>for</strong> our<br />
investigators. The <strong>center</strong> was designed to bring together the<br />
research administrative offices with those units involved in the implementation<br />
of research. The administrative offices oversees the business<br />
aspects of research as well as the administrative offices of the<br />
Institutional Review Board(IRB), TechnologyTransfer, Research<br />
Con tracting,<strong>and</strong> Research Training <strong>and</strong> Education.<br />
Additionally, the <strong>center</strong> houses the Translational Research Institute<br />
(TRI) with its laboratories, research bio-specimen banking facility,<br />
<strong>and</strong> outpatient clinical trial area. The TRI labs have the capacity to<br />
utilize gene expression technologies, ELISA-based protein assays,<br />
as well as the upcoming cell culture facility. These technologies are<br />
used extensively <strong>for</strong> biomarker validation as well as implementation<br />
of novel clinical trial <strong>and</strong> personalized medicine protocols. These<br />
labs are jointly staffed by <strong>Inova</strong> <strong>and</strong> collaborators from George<br />
Mason University (GMU).<br />
The research bio-specimen banking facility of TRI is specifically designed to house twenty -80 0 C freezers in a temperature controlled environment<br />
with backup electricity <strong>and</strong> a sophisticated electronic freezer temperature monitoring system. Currently, over 19,000 specimens from<br />
Center <strong>for</strong> Liver Diseases patients are stored in six freezers. Other research teams who have purchased freezers to accommodate their specimen<br />
needs include the Advanced Lung program, Cardiac Surgery program, Cancer program, <strong>and</strong> the Neurosciences/Trauma program. All<br />
freezers are centrally monitored to assure that research specimens are stored at optimal temperatures to provide important quality control <strong>for</strong><br />
specimen integrity.<br />
The third component of the Center <strong>for</strong> Integrated Research (CIR) is the Outcomes Research Program with its functional assessment laboratory.<br />
This laboratory is designed to implement research protocols that assess activity of daily living <strong>and</strong> other functional assessment measures<br />
of patients with chronic diseases.<br />
Since November of 2008, the Betty <strong>and</strong> Guy Beatty Center <strong>for</strong> Integrated Research at <strong>Inova</strong> <strong>Health</strong> <strong>System</strong> has been fully operational, providing<br />
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