The CRUS provides highly experienced staff and dedicated research facilities for the conduct of clinical and translational studies. The focus of the CRUS is to provide safe, controlled and supportive research environments for adult and pediatric projects. Facilities are associated with each of the 3 CTSC partner institutions — The Cleveland Clinic, MetroHealth and University Hospitals — and are available to both junior and senior investigators.

Research resources are customized to meet investigator needs and include:

Facilities: inpatient, outpatient and community-based;
Staffing: research-trained nurses, bionutritionists, lab personnel and study coordination staff offer facility-based or deployable services;
Services include:
Bionutrition: anthropometrics (neonatal specialty), metabolic kitchen, dietary recall using NDSR
Lab: sample processing & shipping, research analytical services
Informatics: REDCap database development, Explorys training
Fee-for-service study coordinator services
The CRUS administrators at each of the 3 institutions collaborate with their respective institutions’ Research Administration office to support investigators and their teams through the entire research process – project start-up through completion.