# The IDeA State Consortium for a Clinical Research Resource Center: Increasing Clinical Trials in IDeA States through Communication of Opportunities, Effective Marketing, and Workforce Development

> **NIH NIH U24** · WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY · 2024 · $838,718

## Abstract

A recent analysis demonstrated that approximately 10% of NIH sponsored clinical trials were being conducted
in Institutional Development Award (IDeA) states. Though reasons for underrepresentation in clinical trials are
likely multifactorial, effective bidirectional communication between IDeA state institutions and clinical trial
sponsors is an important limitation. Sponsors of clinical trials, especially pharmaceutical industry sponsors,
identify a number of key metrics by which a potential site is evaluated for clinical trial site selection. Important
key clinical trial metrics include time required for contract negotiation, time required for IRB approval, time to site
activation, as well as metrics related to study recruitment and retention, and ability to recruit and retain
participants from populations historically underrepresented in clinical trials. The IDeA State Consortium for
Clinical Research Resource Center (ISCORE-RC) was launched in the fourth quarter of 2023 to increase clinical
trials in IDeA states through establishment of a service center to facilitate increased trial offerings and a clinical
research coordinator program to address shortages of trained clinical trial personnel. There are eight ISCORE-
RC charter member sites, and the lack of clinical trials infrastructure to capture relevant trial metrics at these
sites is a limitation to effective marketing to trial sponsors. This supplemental application seeks support for
ISCORE-RC charter member sites to improve their infrastructure by either implementing a clinical trials
management system or generating reports containing key clinical trial metrics from existing clinical trials
management systems. The ISCORE-RC will develop unique action plans for each of the charter member sites
to enable collection and reporting of key trial metrics, thereby enhancing attractiveness for site selection by
sponsors and CROs. This project is critically important to achieving the overarching goal of increasing clinical
trial offerings in IDeA states.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 11141437
- **Project number:** 3U24GM150446-02S2
- **Recipient organization:** WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY
- **Principal Investigator:** Sally Lynn Hodder
- **Activity code:** U24 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2024
- **Award amount:** $838,718
- **Award type:** 3
- **Project period:** 2023-08-01 → 2028-07-31

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/11141437

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 11141437, The IDeA State Consortium for a Clinical Research Resource Center: Increasing Clinical Trials in IDeA States through Communication of Opportunities, Effective Marketing, and Workforce Development (3U24GM150446-02S2). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-24 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/11141437. Licensed CC0.

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