The Clinical Nutrition Research Center, constructed in the IIT Research Tower on IIT’s main campus in Chicago, is a 5,000 sq. ft. facility designed and dedicated for the purpose of conducting outpatient clinical research studies.

FACILITY HIGHLIGHTS INCLUDE
On-site subject/patient screening and training
Metabolic kitchen for test food preparation and distribution
Two food intake suites for communal dining and or individual dining and larger refrigerators for food storage
Multiple private examination and consultation rooms, and stations adapted for phlebotomy use or catheter implantation and management
Dedicated rooms equipped for vitals assessment, flow-mediated dilation assessment (GE-LOGi-Q, ultrasound equipment with a special ultrasound bed), anthropometrics, food intake and appetite evaluation, among others
Separate laboratory space equipped for specimen processing, storage and fresh sample analysis
Biological freezers, refrigerators, centrifuges (clinical, superspeed, micro-ultracentrifuge), biological safety hood, platelet function analyzer, portable glucose, hemoglobulin and lipid analyzers
Randox Daytona fully automated clinical analyzer, capable of running 180 different clinical chemistry tests and 270 tests per hour
Licensed with specialized computer programs for food intake analysis (ESHA nutrient data base) and statistical analysis