Penn Resources
As Research Staff at Penn, there are various internal resources that are available to help achieve your research objectives. Some of these resources are listed below. Click on each to learn more.
BEN Buys
Careers@Penn
Center for Clinical Epidemiology & Biostatistics (CCEB)
CAMRIS
Clinical Research Staff Portal and Registry (CRSPR)
Clinical Trials Scientific Review and Monitoring (CTSRMC)
The NCI mandates that cancer-related research studies involving human subjects be formally approved by the CTSRMC before it can be activated for accrual by the IRB. This means that even if the IRB has reviewed the study, an investigator may not start accruing subjects until the receipt of a written approval letter from the CTSRMC.
The Clinical Trials Scientific Review and Monitoring Committee (CTSRMC) and the Data and Safety Monitoring Committee (DSMC) are committees mandated by National Cancer Institute (NCI) for all Designated Comprehensive Cancer Centers.
For more details, visit the Abramson Cancer Center's (ACC) website.
Department of Medicine Clinical Trials Unit (CTU)
eShip@Penn
Greenphire's ClinCard
iConnect
iConnect is University of Pennsylvania’s web-based clinical trial listing, search and recruitment portal. This clinical trial matching technology is designed to make web searches by potential research subjects easier and allows communication with research teams at Penn, thereby empowering patients to drive their participation in clinical research.
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Institutional Review Board
KnowledgeLink
Office of Clinical Research (OCR)
The Office of Clinical Research (OCR) is a central office in the Perelman School of Medicine (PSOM) designed to support the management and conduct of clinical research while promoting compliance.
OCR is organized into five support functions. Working together they facilitate research across Penn Medicine. The five support functions include finance, legal, operations regulatory and compliance. Contact information for each OCR unit can be found on the Penn Medicine Clinical Research website.
Office of Research Services (ORS)
The Office of Research Services (ORS) provides administrative support to faculty and departmental managers for sponsored project activities. ORS is responsible for proposal submission and agreement negotiation for federal sponsors and non-profit sponsors. ORS is responsible for all post-award activities, regardless of sponsor.
PennChart
Penn Data Anlaytics Center (DAC)
The Data Analytics Center is an enterprise wide group centered on Decision Support, Data Access, and Data Visualization. Our team of experienced personnel is responsible for guiding customers through the challenges of requirements gathering and decision making and on to the realized end-product – whether this is a complete enterprise dashboard solution, additions to our data warehouse(s), or an ad-hoc report request. The Data Analytics Center leverages Penn's massive stores of data to help everyone from corporate administration to researchers make better decisions to achieve all three missions of Penn Medicine.
Penn Libraries
Penn Manual for Clinical Research
Penn Medicine
Penn Medicine encompasses the Perelman School of Medicine and the University of Pennsylvania Health System. As an academic medical center, education, research, and clinical care are combined to provide the best possible clinical care, that uses cutting-edge technologies, resources and therapies other community hospitals may not have available.
Clinical research staff utilize various Penn Medicine entities to facilitate study activities at Penn.
Penn Medicine Network
Penn Profiler
Workday Learning replaces Penn Profiler, the University’s web-based training requirement survey. Based on job data and other criteria, Workday will automatically assign training required by federal and state laws and regulations, granting agencies, and University policy.
PET Center
REDCap
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