Clinical + Translational Research Center

The CTRC supports federally funded, investigator-initiated, industry-sponsored, high-quality, innovative clinical research across Tufts CTSI partner institutions.

This includes services available 24/7, at inpatient and outpatient facilities at Tufts Medical Center and across other care locations as a “center without walls.”

The CTRC provides researchers with the infrastructure to conduct a wide range of state-of-the-art clinical trials in neonatal, pediatric and adult geriatric research participants in the outpatient or inpatient setting, and offers resources to facilitate clinical research for studying the causes and progression of human disease and for translation of biomedical research to prevent, treat or cure disease.

The CTRC supports every aspect of a clinical study, including:

• Regulatory and coordination support
• Data collection
• Routine and specialized nursing
• Sample collection
• Processing
• Short-term and long-term storage and shipment.

For more information, please visit the CTRC services and facilities page.

Investigators who are applying to request external or internal funding (e.g., NIH) for a study that will be conducted, at least in part, at the CTRC should complete a service request as soon as possible so we can assist with customized study-specific documents for the resources/environment and budget sections of the application.

Participant information for clinical trials is available.

Tufts CTSI is supported by the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences, National Institutes of Health, Award Number UM1TR004398.  The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the NIH.

Please cite this grant whenever you use Tufts CTSI resources, services, and facilities.

The CTRC is located on Farnsworth 6 at Tufts Medical Center (171 Harrison Ave., Boston, MA, 02111).

• Follow signs to the Farnsworth building.  
• Go past patient registration (on your right), turn right and go down a few stairs.
• Continue to the end of this hallway following signs to the Farnsworth building.
• Take the Farnsworth elevators to the 6th floor, which will be on your left.
• Exit the elevator and turn left. Follow the signs to the Tufts Clinical and Translational Research Center.
• Report to room 636.

• Take the Orange Line to the Tufts Medical Center stop and take the exit towards Tufts Medical Center.
• Continue across the street towards the main entrance of the Tufts Medical Center (800 Washington St., Boston MA, 02111) and enter the first floor of the Atrium main lobby.  
• From the Atrium main lobby, follow the directions shown above.

• Tufts Medical Center has a parking garage located at 274 Tremont St., Boston, MA 02111.
• CTRC can validate your parking.
• After parking your car, follow the signs in the garage to Tufts Medical Center.
• Coming out of the main door that connects the garage to the Medical Center, take a right.
• Follow the long corridor through the Tufts Medical Center, towards the Atrium.
• Take a right at the food stand and proceed to the area with three elevators on your right.
• Take the elevator to the first floor of the Atrium main lobby.
• From the Atrium main lobby, follow the directions shown above.