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Supporting your musculoskeletal health research

The Clinical Research Center serves as the cornerstone for human subjects research conducted in the Indiana Center for Musculoskeletal Health and receives funding through a P30 grant from NIH NIAMS. This team is working to better define musculoskeletal diseases that have common pathogenesis and clinical presentations.

With the exemplary team of investigators, the core has integrated a network of electronic health records and molecular profiles to identify genetic factors, clinical and biochemical phenotypes, and to standardize physical function measurements and imaging modalities to define the diseases’ functional and morphologic phenotypes. Improving the definition and diagnosis of these musculoskeletal conditions could lead to personalized medicine advances, enabling health care providers to prescribe tailored treatment for each patient.

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Function, Imaging and Testing (FIT) Resource Core 

Overview of services offered:

  • Incorporate the FIT Core in your research protocol
  • Letter of support for facility usage and data collection
  • Regulatory guidance and overall language support
  • Budget and quotes for supporting documents
  • Training on functional measures and data output
  • Control data and Z-scores from our reference database
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Musculoskeletal, Informatics and Methodological (MIM) Core

Overview of services offered:

  • Access to the MSK Data Mart
  • Feasibility counts
  • Statistical support
  • FIT Core data linked with electronic health information
  • Clinical data including claims data
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Administrative Core

Overview of services offered:

  • Pilot funding opportunities
  • Protocol design and implementation support
  • Data sharing agreement support
  • Access to stored human biosamples
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