DCU Overview
History
- Established in 2004 in the Department of Public Health Sciences at MUSC’s College of Medicine
Expertise
- Specializes in collaborating with clinical investigators and research networks on the design, coordination, analysis and reporting of multicenter clinical trials
- Expertise in biostatistics, trial operations and information systems
Experience
- Design and coordination of over 70 (and counting) multicenter clinical trials across various diseases, majority federally funded
- Management of over 1300 healthcare institutions in North America, Canada, Europe and Asia
- Serve as the statistical and data coordinating center for 4 NIH-funded disease-specific clinical trials networks representing stroke, neurological emergencies, emergency care settings and acute liver failure
Innovation
- All DCU activities are conducted using our internally developed integrated clinical trials management system referred to as WebDCU™; this system provides a web-based collaborative environment for all study partners and provides all the required tools for trial operations and data management in one integrated, efficient and user-friendly system
