Hopefully the content within this website will serve all potential Sponsor or Contract Research Organizations (CROs) with enough information to merit our consideration as a clinical research investigator partner. CCRC believes the following words characterize our strengths and we look forward to working with you in the future:

1. Performance – Proven enrollment and retention rates in multiple therapeutic areas and clinical trial models.
   
   
2. Quality – Low query rates, thorough source documentation, and proficiency with numerous clinical research tools (ie: EDC, IVRS, e-diaries, IRBs, Clinical Labs)
   
   
3. Experience – CCRC’s 7 primary study coordinators have a combined 80 years of research experience. Dr. Strout, serves as CCRC’s medical director; provide leadership and 10 years of dedicated research experience (>200 clinical trials). Abundance experience amongst our support staff including Lab Manager and staff Dietician.
   
   
4. Integrity – Honesty in the event we make a mistake is communicated timely to the sponsor and careful consideration is given to all participants before they enroll into one of our clinical trials.
   
   
5. Humility – CCRC knows what our strengths are and more importantly we definitely know what our weaknesses are. Study feasibility is vital to our success and if we don’t think we would conduct a study well we will gladly decline consideration. In general we decline many more studies then we accept by about a 3 to 1 margin.
   
   
6. Passion – The staff at CCRC truly enjoys what we do for a living and understand the valuable service we provide the Lowcountry community.
   
   
7. Diversity – CCRC’s research population is diverse according to age, gender, race and socio-economic status. We understand that clinical research affects everyone.
   
   
8. Customer Service – Excellence in serving our local volunteers and clients is priority and is constantly reinforced.
   
   
9. Leadership – CCRC accepts the responsibility of providing leadership and education in the Charleston metro area to be the “Lowcountry’s Resource for Medical Research”
   
   
10. Community - The Charleston area is a very conducive area in which to conduct clinical research. Generally the area has a “positive” attitude about clinical research and wants to fully understand the “active” role they may play in the process.
    
    
11. Facilities & Equipment – CCRC has two thoroughly equipped research sites. Click here to see a complete description of our facilities.