New clinical trials will include RGV residents
BROWNSVILLE, RGV - The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley and UTHealth in Houston are teaming up to fast track the development of new treatments for disease.\xa0
The Center for Clinical and Translational Sciences at UTHealth recently announced that is partnering with UTRGV on clinical trials and other research.\xa0
Joseph McCormick, MD, the director of the center\u2019s clinical research unit in Brownsville, spoke about the new partnership in an exclusive interview with the Rio Grande Guardian.
McCormick is a professor with UTHealth School of Public Health in Brownsville and director of the clinical research unit in Brownsville operated by The Center for Clinical and Translational Sciences.\xa0
\u201cIn this new award, one of the areas being developed is for us to be able to do clinical trials,\u201d McCormick said.
\u201cThis means being able to test new medicines with our population.\u201d
McCormick said that currently, a lot of the clinical trials fail to include minority populations.
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