Clinical + Translational Research Center

The CTRC supports high-quality, innovative clinical research across Tufts CTSI partners and collaborators. Overseen by its Scientific Director, the CTRC provides infrastructure to conduct state-of-the-art clinical trials involving neonatal, pediatric, adult, and geriatric research participants to study the causes and progression of human disease. This includes services at outpatient or inpatient facilities at Tufts Medical Center, Lowell General Hospital, Melrose Wakefield Hospital and other locations of care as a "CTRC without walls."

The CTRC supports every aspect of a clinical study, such as:

• Regulatory and coordination support
• Data collection
• Routine and specialized nursing
• Sample collection
• Processing
• Short-term and long-term storage and shipment
• For more information, please visit the CTRC services and facilities page

To Initiate a Service Request:

1. Download and complete the requisition form, then email it to CTRCManagement@tuftsmedicine.org
   then
2. Submit a service request through our online system.

Investigators requesting budgets must complete both steps above. This applies to all budget requests, including those for studies requiring external or internal funding (e.g., NIH) that will be conducted fully or in part in the CTRC.

The CTRC team can develop budgets and assist with customized, study-specific documents for the resources/environment and budget sections of your application.

For questions, please contact CTRCManagement@tuftsmedicine.org, call 617.636.4714, or stop by the CTRC in North 6, Room 669.

Participant information for clinical trials is available.

Tufts CTSI is supported by the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences, National Institutes of Health, Award Number UM1TR004398.  The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the NIH.

Please cite this grant whenever you use Tufts CTSI resources, services, and facilities.

The CTRC is located at:
Tufts Medical Center
North Building, 6th floor, Room 669
171 Harrison Ave., Boston, MA 02111

• From the Atrium/Main Lobby, take the main elevators located directly across the lobby to the 6th floor
• Upon exiting the elevators, turn right and follow the signs for the North Building
• The first door on the right is the entrance to the CTRC Clinic
   

• Take the Orange Line to the Tufts Medical Center stop and take the exit towards Tufts Medical Center.
• Continue across the street towards the main entrance of the Tufts Medical Center (800 Washington St., Boston MA, 02111) and enter the first floor of the Atrium main lobby.  
• From the Atrium main lobby, follow the directions shown above.

• Tufts Medical Center has a parking garage located at 274 Tremont St., Boston, MA 02111.
• CTRC can validate your parking.
• After parking your car, follow the signs in the garage to Tufts Medical Center.
• Coming out of the main door that connects the garage to the Medical Center, take a right.
• Follow the long corridor through the Tufts Medical Center, towards the Atrium.
• Take a right at the food stand and proceed to the area with three elevators on your right.
• Take the elevator to the first floor of the Atrium main lobby.
• From the Atrium main lobby, follow the directions shown above.