Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland Clinical Research Centre at Beaumont Hospital

The RCSI Clinical Research Centre provides facilities and expertise to enable investigators to conduct clinical research to the highest standards. The centre is located on the Beaumont Hospital campus, the main teaching hospital and academic partner for RCSI and the national and regional centre for many specialties including neurosurgery, neurology, renal transplantation, rare lung diseases, pituitary and adrenal endocrinology, gastroenterology and infectious diseases. This location supports the centre’s translational focus and provides ready opportunities for academic and commercial research studies.

In 2009, the CRC, in collaboration with the Dublin Centre for Clinical Research (DCCR) and supported by the Health Research Board (HRB) established a postgraduate certificate in clinical research nursing. This course has been accredited by the National University of Ireland (NUI), and An Bord Altranais, to address a national deficit in education for clinical research nurses. The programme, coordinated by the RCSI CRC, is the first of its kind in Ireland and has been running for more than five years. To date the programme has produced more than 100 trained expert research nurses.

The outputs of the centre have been demonstrated in high quality publications;

Goyal.M, and Hill.M et al. Randomised Assessment of Rapid Endovascular Treatment of Ischemic Stroke. N Engl J Med 2015; 372:1019-1030 http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa1414905

de Barra E, Hodgson SH, Ewer KJ, Bliss CM, Hennigan K, et al. (2014) A Phase Ia Study to Assess the Safety and Immunogenicity of New Malaria Vaccine Candidates ChAd63 CS Administered Alone and with MVA CS. PLoS ONE 9(12): e115161. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0115161 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4270740/pdf/pone.0115161.pdf

Slattery MM, et al. Long-term follow-up of non-calcified pulmonary nodules (<10 mm) identified during low-dose CT screening for lung cancer. Eur Radiol.2012;22:1923-8