# Clinical Component

> **NIH NIH P30** · MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA · 2020 · $99,679

## Abstract

Clinical Component - Abstract
The goal of the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) Digestive Disease Research Core Center (DDRCC)
Clinical Component (CC) is to establish a research support infrastructure of biostatisticians and research
operations to promote the effectiveness of research performed by Center members. This will be accomplished
by supporting the design, implementation and analysis of research studies in digestive and liver diseases that
fall thematically into the DDRCC’s major research priorities.
The CC has several unique features, including an extensive track record of prominent, collaborative research in
digestive and liver diseases, led by Dr. Valerie Durkalski, Professor of Biostatistics and Director of the Data
Coordination Unit (DCU) in the Department of Public Health Sciences at MUSC. Dr. Durkalski and her team are
ideally positioned to fill this role based on their experience as the statistical and data coordinating center for
many NIH-funded multicenter clinical trials and research studies. Further, CC team members are already heavily
involved with Center investigators on a number of NIDDK-funded multicenter studies in gastrointestinal disease.
The CC has two Specific Aims: In Aim 1, the CC will collaborate with DDRCC Biomedical Research Cores and
DDRCC members to support basic, translational and clinical digestive and liver disease research, and to facilitate
the translation of basic research into the clinical setting. The CC members will utilize their expertise in the design
and coordination of digestive disease basic, translational and clinical research studies to collaborate with
DDRCC members in the planning and execution of proposed research projects. In Aim 2, the CC will provide
statistical expertise and support for DDRCC members. The CC will apply their statistical expertise to contribute
to the design of innovative and efficient research studies (basic research studies, clinical trials, translational and
observational studies), analysis and presentation of pilot data, and the development of grant submissions that
will address proposed research questions.
The CC will also foster the professional development of New Investigators. In summary, the CC is ideally poised
to provide a cohesive platform for facilitating the proposed aims and is well-prepared and committed to ensuring
a successful and productive collaboration with the DDRCC Research Cores and members.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 9889238
- **Project number:** 1P30DK123704-01
- **Recipient organization:** MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA
- **Principal Investigator:** VALERIE L DURKALSKI
- **Activity code:** P30 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2020
- **Award amount:** $99,679
- **Award type:** 1
- **Project period:** — → —

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/9889238

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 9889238, Clinical Component (1P30DK123704-01). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-24 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/9889238. Licensed CC0.

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