Upgrades to Penn State’s clinical research database now make it easier for faculty to connect with participants for their research studies. StudyFinder, the University’s clinical research study database, now allows research participants to create a personalized profile, and receive communications about available research studies that match their submitted medical conditions or demographics.
“These enhancements will help study teams more quickly and easily connect with both potential healthy volunteers or participants with certain medical conditions,” said Neal Thomas, MD, associate dean for clinical research at Penn State College of Medicine. “Participating in clinical research gives participants a way to be a part of tomorrow's health care breakthroughs.”
“Nationally, the majority of clinical trials do not reach their goal recruitment within the expected time frame. This requires creative approaches to engaging research participants. I’m grateful for CTSI’s partnership with the Cancer Institute to develop this effective volunteer repository to better support Penn State’s researchers in addressing these recruitment challenges,” shared Jennifer Kraschnewski, MD, Director of the Penn State CTSI. “We look forward to developing more innovative solutions to support the University’s clinical and translational research.”
Potential study participants can login through a secure portal to register their potential interest in participating in research studies. They then select the types of studies they may be interested in by health topic/condition. Users can also register as healthy volunteers and be added to a list of potential participants who are interested in participating as healthy volunteers for studies.
Penn State researchers interested in learning more about utilizing this new resource for research recruitment, please email ctsi@pennstatehealth.psu.edu.
Create a profile and/or browse recruiting Penn State research studies on StudyFinder.