Clinical Core for Infection and Vaccine Care
Core B - Clinical Core
This program supports clinical work to learn how infections and vaccines affect older adults and people seen in emergency care.
Quick facts
| Grant type | NIH-funded research |
|---|---|
| Study type | NIH-funded research |
| Funding institution | Washington University NIH-funded |
| Lab location | 1 site (Saint Louis, United States) |
| Project ID | NIH-11182564 on NIH RePORTER |
What this research studies
This Clinical Core at Washington University brings together infectious disease and emergency medicine teams, lab staff, and statisticians to run and coordinate studies about influenza and COVID-19. They collect blood and other samples, clinical information, and imaging, and they handle data analysis and pharmacy support. The core helps design studies, recruit participants (including people 65 and older and emergency department patients), and store samples for future research. If you join, the team would manage visits, tests, and follow-up and protect your data while using samples to study immune responses.
Who could benefit from this research
Good fit: Ideal candidates are adults—especially those 65 and older—who have had or are at risk for influenza or COVID-19, are receiving vaccines, or are seen in the emergency department and can provide consent and samples.
Not a fit: People without respiratory infection or vaccine exposure, or those unable or unwilling to attend clinic visits and provide samples, are unlikely to benefit directly from participation.
Why it matters
Potential benefit: If successful, this core could speed development of better vaccines and treatments for older adults and emergency patients by providing high-quality data and samples.
How similar studies have performed: Washington University teams and other centers ran similar clinical cores successfully during the COVID-19 pandemic, so this builds on proven clinical and sample-collection infrastructure.
Where this research is happening
Saint Louis, United States
- Washington University — Saint Louis, United States (Active)
Researchers
- Principal investigator: Presti, Rachel Margaret — Washington University
- Study coordinator: Presti, Rachel Margaret
About this research
- This is an active NIH-funded research project — typically early-stage science, not a clinical trial accepting patient enrollment.
- Some NIH-funded labs run parallel clinical studies or seek volunteers for related work. To check, contact the principal investigator or institution listed above.
- For full project details, budget, and progress reports, visit the official NIH RePORTER page below.