The General Clinical Research Center (GCRC) of New York University Medical Center (NYUMC) is part of a nation-wide research program funded by the National Center for Research Resources Division of the National Institutes of Health. Its main objective is to make available to medical scientists the resources necessary for the conduct of clinical research. As such, it provides an environment for studies of normal and abnormal body function and for investigations of the cause, progression, prevention, control, and cure of human disease; it provides an optimal setting for controlled clinical investigation by scientists supported through the Public Health Service or other sources; it encourages collaboration among basic and clinical scientists; it encourages, develops and maintains a corps of expert clinical investigators; it serves as an environment for training other health professionals in clinical research; and it provides resources in which advances in basic scientific knowledge may be translated into new or improved methods for patient care.

In existence since 1960, the GCRC at NYUMC has enabled the performance of numerous studies over an extremely broad range of patient-oriented scientific inquiry. The GCRC has 11 inpatient beds and 10 outpatient rooms; a Core laboratory, and a Computer Database Management and Analysis System. The Program Director is Dr. William N. Rom.