Expert guidance on experimental design and regulatory processes.
The CCTR provides researchers with guidance from a project’s early stages of design and development through the regulatory processes, grant submission, and completion. We take a compassionate, consultative approach to assist researchers through the labyrinth of regulatory processes, grant submission, participant recruitment, consent and secure data collection.
- Full or partial coordination of studies
- Study design and implementation plan
- Regulatory support:
- Guide through IRB/Regulatory process
- Continuing Review and Study Amendments
- Liaison with COUHES
- Referrals to MIT Office of the Vice President of Research
- Grant submission:
- Description of CCTR facilities, resources and capabilities
- Letters of Support
- Budget Projection (Excel file)
- Project consultations
- Finding Collaborators
- Grant submission support (description of CCTR facilities, resources and capabilities, letters of support, and budget projection)
- IRB application consult
- Mentoring
- Biomedical device, experimental products,
- Project Management
- Protocol design and review
- Regulatory guidance (IND, NDA, SOPs)
- Technical support
- Trouble shooting
- Standardization of equipment set up
- Experimental equipment
- Standard of care equipment
- Equipment/Instrument Integration
- General data acquisition
- Participant recruitment service
- CCTR assists investigator and their team with study specific participant recruitment strategy and support.
- CCTR website advertisement service is available to all MIT researchers at no charge. To request the complementary advertising service, please complete the Website recruitment from.
- Secure data collection
- HIPAA-compliant secure database for building and managing online surveys and databases: REDCap
- REDCap account and project creation with CCTR designed templates
- Development of data collection tools
- REDCap e-consent platform template
- Request a REDCap account
- Third-Party consenting service
- CCTR can help investigators with third-party consenting service when they plan to use students from the lab, fellow researchers, or friends to participate in their research study
- CCTR voucher program and funding opportunities
- Up to $5000 per lab for new and underfunded investigators
- Occasionally we are notified of other Funding Opportunities which will be posted on the website