The Clinical Research Center serves as the cornerstone for human subjects research conducted in the Indiana Center for Musculoskeletal Health and receives funding through a P30 grant from NIH NIAMS. This team is working to better define musculoskeletal diseases that have common pathogenesis and clinical presentations.
With the exemplary team of investigators, the core has integrated a network of electronic health records and molecular profiles to identify genetic factors, clinical and biochemical phenotypes, and to standardize physical function measurements and imaging modalities to define the diseases’ functional and morphologic phenotypes. Improving the definition and diagnosis of these musculoskeletal conditions could lead to personalized medicine advances, enabling health care providers to prescribe tailored treatment for each patient.
