Support and Services

Resource Navigation and Guides

Clinical Research Checklists
  • Navigating the clinical research environment can be complex. Access these customized checklists to help get your clinical research study up-and-running here.
Virtual Clinical Research Guidelines
  • This document provides information relevant to the University of Alberta on the tools available for remotely conducting clinical research.
Indigenous Research Guide
  • This provides researchers both Indigenous and non-Indigenous with the tools, information, and support that they need to conduct ethical and reciprocal research with Indigenous communities.
Research Services Office CIHR Resources
  • The database includes resources such as funding award lists, strategic review checklists, data analysis of CIHR competition and funding award data, peer review committee (PRC) member lists, applicant document templates, tip sheets, and workshop PowerPoint slides & videos.

General Research Support

Clinical Trials Office (previously known as Quality Management in Clinical Research (QMCR))
  • The Clinical Trials Offices (CTO) offers resources to support the conduct of PI-initiated clinical trials, such as training for research staff and facilitating regulatory approvals with Health Canada.
  • Contact: scott.jamieson@ualberta.ca
NACTRC: The Northern Alberta Clinical Trials & Research Centre
  • NACTRC offers clinical trials agreement negotiation and operational approvals.
  • Login for support
ACRC: The Alberta Clinical Research Consortium
FoMD Resources for Faculty Members
  • This webpage provides a collection of research-related pre- and post-award resources and policies in the Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry and at the University of Alberta.
RSO: Research Services

 

Grant Support

Clinical Health Research Grant Depository
FoMD Internal CIHR Project Grant Review Process
  • This process is strongly recommended for all principal investigators applying for CIHR Project funding and mandatory to researchers who have never received a CIHR Project Grant as principal applicant and who have received start-up funding from FoMD, Institute or Department in the last 5 years.

 

Services for Clinical Health Research

HREB: Health Research Ethics Board
  • The University of Alberta has two Health Research Ethics Boards that provide ethical review for non-invasive (health panel) and invasive (biomedical panel) health research.
  • ARISE online system
HREBA-CC: Health Research Ethics Board - Cancer Committee
  • HREBA-CC provides scientific and ethical review of all cancer-related protocols involving human participants in the province of Alberta.
  • Start your ethics submission
Risk Management & Insurance for Clinical Trials
  • This provides information on insurance requirements for clinical trials at the University of Alberta.
AbSPORU: Alberta Strategy for Patient-Oriented Research SUPPORT Unit
  • AbSPORU is dedicated to transforming health outcomes in Alberta through Patient-Oriented Research (POR). They provide support services focuses on four areas: Data & Services; Knowledge Translation; Patient Engagement; and Capacity Development & Events. The AbSPORU teams are located at both the Universities of Alberta and Calgary.
  • Part of the support provided by the Data & Services team is to facilitate access to health data (inventory of available datasets).
  • Apply for services here
PLP: Physician Learning Program
  • PLP serves as an implementation hub with the skills to integrate best available evidence on problems of clinical importance. Using health systems data, combined with our expertise in understanding problems, advanced data analytics, human centred design, and improvement science, we co-create tools and resources that support meaningful change and help physicians and their teams advance practice.
  • For more information contact plp@ualberta.ca
RWE: NACTRC Real World Evidence Unit
  • The RWE Unit focuses on generating real world evidence about the potential uses, benefits, and risks of health technologies.
  • They are part of the Alberta RWE Consortium
IHE: Institute of Health Economics
  • The Institute of Health Economics (IHE) is an independent, not-for-profit organization with key competencies in health economics, health technology assessment, and knowledge transfer/exchange.
  • They provide support for economic modelling and evaluation; value for money and cost analyses evidence assessment; development and implementation guidance; and policy engagement and knowledge mobilization
WCHRI: The Women & Children's Health Research Institute
  • WCHRI offers services for biostatistics, data coordination, clinical trials management and knowledge translation, to it's members and projects that align with their mission.
  • Provides REDCap to the University of Alberta community collaboration with the Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry , the NACTRC and the AbSPORU.
ARCHE: Alberta Research Centre for Health Evidence
  • ARCHE offers knowledge synthesis consultation and implementation services to researchers.
EPICORE: Epidemiology Coordinating and Research Centre
  • EPICORE offers services related to the conduct of clinical trials, including design of protocols and case report forms, and data management and analysis.

 

Patient Recruitment Support

HABIT: Marketing, Branding & Web Design
  • Habit can facilitate the prospective recruitment of participants into research by developing unique and engaging digital communications for the public.
  • Please note the FoMD does not endorse Habit; this is an example of a company we have worked with in the past to facilitate participant recruitment.
Be The Cure: A Platform to Engage Patients and the Public in Research
  • At Be The Cure, patients and the public can get involved and learn more about participating in research.
  • Sign up here

Secondary Data Access

SAGE: Secondary Analysis to Generate Evidence
  • SAGE is a collaborative data repository platform from PolicyWise for Children & Families that connects stakeholders through secondary use of data (see resources).
  • The SAGE team offers a broad array of services that support data management, secondary use of data, and knowledge mobilization.
  • Contact: data@policywise.com