The Skirball Institute of Biomolecular Medicine
The Skirball Institute provides 67 laboratories for 40-50 investigators at New York University. Organized around interdisciplinary units, the Skirball enhances scientific communication and collaboration among basic and clinical scientists. The interdisciplinary units include molecular pathogenesis, developmental biology and neuroscience. A $200 million project, the 23-story research, clinical and residential tower is NYU School of Medicine's most recent addition.
General Clinical Research Center
The General Clinical Research Center (GCRC) of New York University Medical Center (NYUMC) is part of a nation-wide research program funded by the National Center for Research Resources Division of the National Institutes of Health. Its main objective is to make available to medical scientists the resources necessary for the conduct of clinical research. As such, it provides an environment for studies of normal and abnormal body function and for investigations of the cause, progression, prevention, control, and cure of human disease; it provides an optimal setting for controlled clinical investigation by scientists supported through the Public Health Service or other sources; it encourages collaboration among basic and clinical scientists; it encourages, develops and maintains a corps of expert clinical investigators; it serves as an environment for training other health professionals in clinical research; and it provides resources in which advances in basic scientific knowledge may be translated into new or improved methods for patient care.
In existence since 1960, the GCRC at NYUMC has enabled the performance of numerous studies over an extremely broad range of patient-oriented scientific inquiry. The GCRC has 11 inpatient beds and 10 outpatient rooms; a Core laboratory, and a Computer Database Management and Analysis System. The Program Director is Dr. William N. Rom.
Center for AIDS Research
The NIAID- funded AIDS center provides specialized research resources for clinical studies on AIDS including cell sorting, immunology, and special expertise in HIV-vaccine development as well as immune dysfunction due to AIDS.
Kaplan Comprehensive Cancer Center
The NYU cancer center specializes in clinical trials including gene therapy, new congeners of DNA topoisometase inhibitors, and research in angiogenesis, transgenic mouse models, uroepithelial cancer, breast cancer, and lung cancer.
Nelson Institute of Environmental Medicine
Supported by a NIEHS Center grant, the Institute has more than 60 faculty and 100 staff studying molecular, metal, and genetic toxicology, air pollution epidemiology. air pollution basic science mechanisms, environmental oncology, ergonomics, and epidemiology-biostatitstics. Dr. William Rom is also a professor of this department.
NYU Biomarker Clinical and Epidemiologic Center
This NCI-funded Center screens members of industrial unions for biomarkers related to cancer. The Principal Investigator is Dr. William Rom.