Office of Clinical Research

About Us

Driving excellence in MUSC clinical research enterprise-wide through mandated compliance oversight for research billing and ClinicalTrials.gov and enterprise systems like OnCore/eReg, alongside comprehensive expertise for clinical trials budget development and negotiations, sponsor invoicing, patient remuneration, training, metric tracking, and networking through the Research Community Hub (RCH).

Our Mission

The OCR serves as a hub for the MUSC research community, offering resources, systems, services, and training from our core teams.

The Office of Clinical Research is excited to introduce the Research Community Hub (RCH) a professional networking group specifically for MUSC research coordinators, grants administrators, and other clinical research staff.

This community provides a supportive space for accessing timely resources, asking general questions, and collaborating to foster connections, as well as a culture of research excellence across MUSC.

What We Do

• New Study Opportunities: We disseminate new study opportunities to keep our research community informed.
• Study Feasibility Support: We offer feasibility support and pre-site visit assistance to ensure successful study initiation.
• Compliance Guidance: Our team guides investigators to meet federal research billing compliance regulations with comprehensive protocol reviews and Coverage Analysis (CA) development.
• Budgeting and Negotiations: We reduce study staff burden by leveraging our experienced corporate clinical research budgeting and negotiations fee-for-service team.
• Revenue Collection: We maximize revenue collection with centralized fee-for-service invoicing expertise for corporate clinical research.
• Financial Management: We streamline financial management and study tracking with the institutionally mandated OnCore Clinical Trial Management System (CTMS).
• Patient Payments: We offer a secure way to disburse payments to research patients in real-time with ClinCard reloadable debit cards.
• ClinicalTrials.gov Compliance: We collaborate with study teams to ensure compliance with federal registration, record maintenance, and results-reporting requirements.
• Research Professional Networking Group: We created the Research Community Hub (RCH) to provide a supportive space for MUSC research staff to share information, ask questions, and foster connections with other research professionals to enhance research excellence across our institution.

MUSC Health/RHN Research

Investigators can expand their research reach with the support of the MUSC Health/Regional Health Network (RHN) centers located in Columbia, Florence, Lancaster, and the regional medical center in Orangeburg. Visit the MUSC Health/RHN website to learn more about these centers' patient populations, specialty areas, resources, and services.