# Core G: Clinical Investigation

> **NIH NIH P30** · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO · 2023 · $396,404

## Abstract

Core G: Clinical Investigation (CI) Project Summary/Abstract
The overall objective of the Clinical Investigation (CI) Core is to support impactful clinical and translational HIV
investigations performed by emerging and international investigators. The CI Core accomplishes this by
providing consultation, services, and mentorship essential to the performance of high-quality clinical research.
This includes access to research participants, clinical databases (Clinical Data Unit) and participant samples
(Specimen Management Unit); expertise in the conducting and monitoring of clinical studies and provision of
clinical research infrastructure (Study Coordination Unit and Regulatory Unit). CI Core services offer are broad
and fall into the following general categories of access, clinical research facilitation and education and
mentorship.
The CI Core will meet our CFAR goals through the following specific aims:
1. Access: Assist in clinic-based research recruitment and provide well-characterized data and biological
 specimens to support HIV clinical investigation and translational research.
2. Consultation and Facilitation of Clinical and Translational Research: Provide clinical research study design,
 regulatory, and data safety and monitoring services.
3. Education and Mentorship: Provide formal and informal education in clinical research methods, mentor the
 next generation of HIV clinical and translational investigators, and support HIV research mentors.
The CI Core provides access to study participants either via clinic-based recruitment facilitated by core staff or
consultation in the design of research recruitment strategies. Access to well-characterized clinical data and
biological specimens is also provided by leveraging the CFAR Network of Integrated Clinical Systems (CNICS).
Clinical research facilitation can involve expert consultation on clinical study design as well as provision of
services essential to clinical research including institutional review board document preparation, data safety
monitoring, and database development and management services.
The CI Core prioritizes mentorship and support for emerging and international investigators to facilitate the
performance of high-impactful and locally relevant research amongst our established HIV researchers.
Recognizing that collaboration and a diversity of viewpoints drives innovation, the CI Core continues to foster
and build relationships among research teams focused on HIV and on other relevant conditions that impact HIV
and populations at risk for HIV. The CI Core will continue to implement strategic planning processes that facilitate
continual innovation and growth to meet the needs of our local HIV research community.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10671344
- **Project number:** 2P30AI036214-29
- **Recipient organization:** UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO
- **Principal Investigator:** Maile Ann Young Karris
- **Activity code:** P30 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2023
- **Award amount:** $396,404
- **Award type:** 2
- **Project period:** 1997-04-01 → 2028-03-31

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10671344

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10671344, Core G: Clinical Investigation (2P30AI036214-29). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-25 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10671344. Licensed CC0.

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