The Clinical Research Center (CRC) at Boston Children’s Hospital is an interdisciplinary, academic and service research center that provides assistance and education to the clinical research community at Children’s.

Within the Clinical Research Center there are four separate but interrelated cores

Design and Analysis Core;
Clinical Research Education Core;
Development and Operations Core; and
Clinical and Translational Study Unit.
Clinical research is scientific investigation that is conducted with human subjects or on material of human origin such as tissues, specimens, cognitive phenomena or other data for which an investigator directly interacts with human subjects or for which material can be directly linked to an identifiable, living individual. Clinical research includes patient-oriented, community, and population-based research studies.