Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Clinical Research Fellowship (CRF) Program for Medical Students

Overview

Clinical Research

Clinical research is research conducted with human subjects or material of human origin in which the fellow (or a colleague) directly interacts with human subjects. This research must have direct application to the prevention, diagnosis, or treatment of disease. Other areas of research supported by the program include epidemiology, outcomes and health services research, and behavioral research.

Past and present fellows have participated in the following areas of research:

• Osteoporosis
• Liver fibrosis
• Food allergy
• Inflammatory bowel disease
• Depression
• Measuring and improving quality of care
• Cognitive impairment in schizophrenia
• Alzheimer's disease
• Skin cancer
• Immunodeficiency
• Glaucoma
• Gastrointestinal cancer
• Palliative care
• Cardiovascular research
• Sexually transmitted diseases
• HIV nephropathy