# Core Center for Clinical Research at Northwestern University

> **NIH NIH P30** · NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY · 2020 · $743,655

## Abstract

The overarching goal of the proposed Northwestern University (NU) Core Center for Clinical Research (CCCR)
is to promote cutting-edge clinical research aimed at prevention or control of rheumatic and musculoskeletal
conditions and poor outcomes associated with them. While we will provide broad support, we will particularly
seek to drive this theme: prevention strategy and intervention development to create lifestyle, behavioral,
medical, and rehabilitative solutions. Overall aims are: 1) accelerate and enhance funded research, by
improving efficiency, rigor, collaboration, cost-effectiveness, productivity, and impact; 2) catalyze and add
value to all NU research relevant to our mission; and 3) promote new research, by expanding the community
working in the areas of our mission and by expanding research fields within the mission. This CCCR is
organized into Administrative, Methodologic, and Resource Cores. Methodologic Core aims include, to provide:
data management support; expertise pertaining to research design, study conduct, outcome assessment, and
data analysis; an enhanced training environment through focused services, collaboration, team science
training; cutting-edge capabilities to meet ongoing and evolving needs of the Research Community regarding:
a) statistical analysis, b) epidemiology, c) behavioral science, d) nutritional science, e) implementation science,
f) economic evaluation, g) genomics/bioinformatics, and h) clinical informatics. The Resource Core,
Assessment & Intervention Science & Technology in Daily Life, will integrate Sub-Cores (Person-Centered
Outcomes Assessment and Technology; Accelerometer Measurement of Physical Activity, Sedentary Behavior
and Sleep; and Behavioral Intervention Technologies), with these aims: design tailored multi-modal
assessment and health interventions, incorporating real-world: a) self-report of social, physical, and mental
health, symptoms, and life satisfaction, and performance-based assessment of motor, sensory, and cognitive
function; b) accelerometry to assess physical activity, sedentary behavior, and sleep; and c) mobile, web,
tablet, and sensor-based applications that identify real-world behavioral markers using GPS, activity logs, and
wearable biosensors, to predict physiological and psychological states; and implement technology platforms
that can deploy interventions and administer multi-modal assessment, integrating into the platform self-report,
performance-based, and accelerometer assessment. Through our relationships – with Preventive Medicine,
Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Medical Social Sciences, Physical Therapy and Human Movement
Sciences, the Institute for Public Health and Medicine, and the NU Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute
(CTSA) – this CCCR will draw on a diverse university community. In turn, our CCCR will create powerful and
innovative resources. Because this CCCR a) is centered on the goal to improve how persons feel and function
in their daily ...

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 9983597
- **Project number:** 5P30AR072579-04
- **Recipient organization:** NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY
- **Principal Investigator:** Leena Sharma
- **Activity code:** P30 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2020
- **Award amount:** $743,655
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** 2017-09-19 → 2022-07-31

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/9983597

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 9983597, Core Center for Clinical Research at Northwestern University (5P30AR072579-04). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-23 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/9983597. Licensed CC0.

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