Office for Clinical and Translational Research
Support Services and Resources

OCTR Support Services and Resources

Partner with the Office for Clinical and Translational Research. From start to finish, we can provide you with the support services and resources necessary to conduct or facilitate your pediatric and adult clinical research.
• Development of investigator-initiated research grants and protocols
• Recruitment of industry-sponsored clinical research trials/protocols
• Protocol development consultation for industry-sponsored studies
• Protocol feasibility assessment/design
• Protocol review and approval process
• Faculty investigator identification for industry-sponsored clinical studies or multi-center studies, irrespective of funding source
• Scheduling and coordination of sponsor site assessment visits at Cincinnati Children’s
• Industry sponsor identification for investigator-initiated clinical trials
• Investigator identification and qualification coordination
• Investigator meeting and site initiation attendance
• Central coordinating center and regulatory coordinating center for multi-site trials
• Conduct research team training: per site- and multi-center studies
• Case report forms and source documentation development
• Procedure set up with ancillary departments coordination
• Scheduling and conduct of study visits
• Contract study coordinators and research support
• Conduct of close-out activities
• Execution of CDAs
• CTA facilitation as required by Cincinnati Children’s Research Foundation administration
• Budget consultation, development, review, analysis and sponsor negotiation
• Institutional budgetary approval
• Financial reports and statements
• Facilitation of the contract process
• Issue, review and negotiation of NIH and foundation funded clinical trial agreements
• IND and IDE applications - preparation and submission
• Annual reporting as required by the FDA, IRB and DSMB
• FDA interactions and communications
• Informed consent development and submission
• IRB submissions
• Maintenance of regulatory files and subject records
• Audit preparation
• Study monitoring
• AE and SAE reporting
• Coordination of long-term document storage
• Access to large, diverse pediatric and adult populations throughout the region, including Southwest Ohio, Southeast Indiana and Northern Kentucky
• Guidance and consultation for consistent and effective participant recruitment and retention practices – children and adults
• Development of strategic study recruitment and retention plans
• Construction of recruitment and retention budgets including advertising
• Creation of all print, electronic and ancillary materials including advertising and social media
• Access to the OCTR clinical research trial participant database – healthy children and adults
• Access to Cincinnati Children’s clinical trials web pages, 60-plus recruitment flyer boards throughout Greater Cincinnati, as well as the semiannual booklet of “Research Studies at Cincinnati Children’s”
• Collaboration with Cincinnati Children’s Data Management Center for single- and multi-site trials
• Investigator-initiated and industry-sponsored trials
• NIH collaborative/consortium group trials
• Rescue/rejuvenation of ongoing trials
• Medical writing
• Abstracts
• Publication rights and agreements

Accreditation

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Association for the Accreditation of Human Research Protection Programs

Interested in OCTR Services for Your Next Study?

Investigators: Learn more by downloading Cincinnati Children’s OCTR Services Brochure.

Contact Us

Office for Clinical and Translational Research (OCTR)
Office phone: 513-636-3232
Fax: 513-636-0168
OCTR@cchmc.org