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VCU joins Johns Hopkins Clinical Research Network
February 5, 2025
Regional alliance fosters multisite clinical research and expanded treatment access for local patients.
Building upon its clinical research growth in recent years, Virginia Commonwealth University announced today that it is joining the Johns Hopkins Clinical Research Network.
The network is a regional alliance of academic and community-based medical centers that offer multisite clinical research. VCU’s membership will allow more patients to access a great number and diversity of clinical trials in their local communities. The network also provides opportunities for physician-scientists to collaborate and share scientific information with each other, and to expand their capacity to conduct clinical and translational research.
“This new collaboration between Johns Hopkins and Virginia Commonwealth University and our clinical hospital partners provides a platform for clinical trials of new treatments across the Virginia, Maryland and D.C. region,” said F. Gerard Moeller, M.D., VCU’s associate vice president for clinical research and director of the C. Kenneth and Dianne Wright Center for Clinical and Translational Research. “This will allow VCU Health System to have access to additional novel research therapies for a variety of diseases. Patients within VCU Health System will have access to novel treatments through the research network that they would potentially otherwise need to travel outside of Virginia to access, so this is a win for VCU, VCU Health System and our patients.”
“VCU is an internationally recognized academic institution, and we are looking forward to VCU being an active collaborator in the Johns Hopkins Clinical Research Network,” said Adrian Dobs, M.D., the network’s director and a professor of medicine and oncology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. “We anticipate the network will provide opportunities for individuals in Virginia to participate in new and innovative research projects.”
