Welcome to the HRB Clinical Research Facility, Galway (IRELAND)

Supporting clinical research and clinical trials by providing:

• Access to clinical specialists and networks
• Clinical trial management
• Research nursing support
• Biostatistical and methodological support on study design and analysis
• Data management and IT support
• Research Pharmacy support
• Advice on ethical and regulatory submissions
• Controlled storage for Investigational Medicinal Products
• Biospecimen collection and processing
• Education programmes
  
  
  

The HRB Clinical Research Facility, Galway (CRFG) is a joint venture between Galway University Hospitals (GUH) and National University of Ireland, Galway (NUIG) and has been in operation since March 2008. The CRFG provides the infrastructure, physical space, facilities, expertise and culture needed to optimally support patient-focused research studies and clinical studies aimed at understanding a range of diseases and translating the knowledge obtained through this research work into reimbursed, regulatory approved advances in patient care as speedily as possible. 

News

Summer School in Biostatistics 2013

Introductory Course in Biostatistics. June 4th - 7th  
Course Lecturers: George P. McCabe, Purdue University; John Newell, CRFG, NUI Galway
The workshop provides participants with an overview of fundamental biostatistical methods, an understanding of the key concept of variability and a practical working knowledge of the statistical techniques they are likely to encounter in applied medical research.
Academic Rate: €400. Commercial Rate on request

Associate Director of HRB Clinical Research Facility speaks to the Irish Medical Times about the importance of clinical prediction rules in tackling stroke

Opening for a PhD in Biostatistics

An opening for a PhD student in Biostatistics is available in the HRB Clinical Research Facility jointly with the School of Mathematics, Statistics and Applied Mathematics. The proposed PhD in Biostatistics is by research and will be of interest to students with an undergraduate degree in Mathematics or Statistics who wish to specialise in biostatistics and develop their skills in modern statistical methods in a Clinical environment. 
 

Biostatistics Unit Adjunct Professor George McCabe receives the 2012 Don Owen Award

Article on the link-up between clinicians and industry in the development of medical devices utilising HRB Clinical Research Facility is published in the Irish Medical Times

Study on Salt Consumption led by Associate Director of CRFG is published in the Journal of the American Medical Association

New Study for Rare but Devastating Cancer Opens 

'World First' for HRB Clinical Research Facility Galway

Director of HRB Clinical Research Facility Receives Highest Award from Royal Academy of Medicine in Ireland  

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