OVERVIEW:

Office of Clinical Trials

The scope of the Office of Clinical Trials is to negotiate industry-sponsored contract and budgets, business development, PI infrastructure support, financial oversight and research billing compliance. Currently the OCT acts as a central information resource point for the conduct of clinical research at NYUSoM.

DEFINITION A CLINICAL TRIAL

Industry-Sponsored Clinical Trials:

Clinical trials are a subset of clinical research and must include ALL THREE of the following factors in order to qualify for the clinical trial indirect cost rate:
  1. The objective of the study is either:
    1. Testing of drugs, devices, diagnostics, treatments, interventions, or preventive measures including testing for an unapproved indication; or
    2. Data collection to increase knowledge that would lead to enhanced safety and efficacy of a specified drug or device; and
  2. The study must involve contact with humans or retrospective review of medical records, clinical data or specimens obtained from contact with humans; and
  3. The study must be industry sponsored or funded.

IF YOUR TRIAL DOES NOT MEET THESE CRITERIA

For Non-Clinical Trial Research go to: http://www.med.nyu.edu/oil/
The Office of Industrial Liaison manages all activities relating to the protection and commercial promotion of inventions made at New York University.

For Grants go to: http://www.med.nyu.edu/spa/
Support and assistance with proposals, including budget development and sponsor compliance review for Funded Research.