The UCBC remit is to position the University of Calgary as a leader in the development and application of biostatistical methodology for research problems on the cutting edge of biomedical research. Emphasis will be placed on analyzing so-called big data problems, and high-end computational and ‘statistical learning’ techniques (data science), in the context of, many of University’s existing strengths; for example, bioinformatics, genetics, infectious disease epidemiology, kinesiology, population ecology, and clinical trials.

The Alberta Real World Evidence Consortium is comprised of an expert pan-provincial research team from the Universities of Alberta and Calgary, and the Institute of Health Economics. The consortium engages key stakeholders to provide guidance and improve the value of RWE studies, convenes the best pan-provincial teams, provides world-class project support, including study design, execution, and knowledge sharing.
The Consortium is primarily concerned with projects that are evaluations of safety, effectiveness, and/or value of a technology or other intervention that is currently used in clinical practice (i.e., not an intervention being tested in a randomized controlled trial in a limited patient population).

The program aims to implement registration of new collections of human research biospecimens that are collected, stored, and used for health research. The 1,137,000 samples stored at our facility are tracked using CBSR’s own software, Biobank. Samples are given a unique identifier in software and assigned a location in our freezers. Biobank rapidly generates lists of requested samples so we can pull more then a thousand samples a day. Biobank is an open source collaboration between CBSR, & Ontario Health Services, available for free on GitHub along with several other open source tools we have developed

Cross-cutting NeuroTechnology Cores create an environment that acts as a springboard for creativity and excellence in research. These cores provides researchers across all areas of brain and mental health with the most advanced equipment available, enabling researchers to be competitive with the top neuroscience facilities in the world. Cores include optogenics, advanced microscopy, molecular analysis, transcriptomics, neuroimaging, non-invasive neurostimulation , and more.

Located within the Teaching, Research & Wellness Building on the Foothills Medical Centre site, the Kinetix Fitness and Wellness Centre is a 5,000-square-foot facility that provides a user-friendly exercise and testing environment for clinical trials that include exercise programs as part of their protocols. Kinetix allows industry-sponsors to take advantage of equipment designed to support a breadth of physiological and performance-related assessments. Highly qualified staff can offer consultations, equipment training and technical assistance for clinical trials conducted at the facility.

The Alberta Transplant Applied Genomics Centre (ATAGC) is a research centre and core service facility with multidisciplinary expertise spanning the areas of applied genomics, pathology, molecular biology, immunology, biostatistics, and experimental design. The center offers access to a moledcular microscope diagnostic system, transcript assessment, and computational biology and bioastatistics.

The mission of the CCI CTU is to initiate and conduct clinical trials that improve the lives of current and future cancer patients. The CCI CTU has more than 60 qualified investigators across multiple health disciplines, employs over 100 clinical trial nurses, clinical trial co-ordinators & assistants with tumor group specific expertise and has an efficient administrative core funded by the Alberta Cancer Foundation. The CCI CTU places more than 600 people with cancer on new cancer treatments (the highest per capita accrual in Canada), including local investigator initiated studies and first in human drug testing. We contribute to many practice-changing global studies and save the Alberta health care system nearly $10M CND in drug costs every year.

ABACUS is a cardiovascular and stroke research centre integrating clinical research activities for out-patients. It allows for research in a high tech tertiary hospital without affecting clinical waitlists and provides researchers the ability to perform research studies in close collaboration with clinical departments. Currently, ABACUS accommodates an established Cardiovascular Ultrasound Research Unit as well as a Pulmonary Hypertension Clinic and offers access to various 2D and 3D echocardiography equipement. It also houses several research coordinators looking after numerous patients in different research studies.

The Peter S. Allen MR Research Centre is 100% research dedicated, state-of-the-art facility of Department of Biomedical Engineering, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Alberta. It is a home of two full-body MRI systems (3T Siemens Prisma, and 4.7T) backed by a group of very skilled and enthusiastic professionals and provides a wide range of possibilities in magnetic resonance research and clinical research applications.

Our scientists perform studies across all pillars of research, from reductionist isolated cell culture preparations to clinical trials in human patients, in order to define the fundamental neurobiology that underlies the function of the healthy brain or its dysfunction in mental illness. The unit provides infrastructure for analytical neurochemistry, in vivo imaging in animal models, behavioural testing in rodents, primary cell culture, and quantitative and qualitative immunoassays and histology.