Paul Crispen
University of Florida, FL·Medicine & Clinical Research
Cancer clinical trials only help patients if they are run safely, record accurate data, and reach the people who need them. That matters most in regions where many cancers are found at a late stage.
- Fields
Medicine & Clinical Research
Public Health & Epidemiology
- Topics
cancer clinical trials
clinical research management
investigator-initiated trials
- Grants
- 1 known grant, through May 2027
What they work on
- Support the development, activation, and regulatory compliance of investigator-initiated, NCI-sponsored, and industry cancer trials through a centralized Clinical Research Office at UF Health Cancer Center.
- Administer a Data and Safety Monitoring Plan, in which a Data Integrity and Safety Committee reviews ongoing cancer trials to protect participant safety and data integrity.
- Expand enrollment in treatment, screening, and supportive-care trials for catchment-area patients, using stronger participant screening and collaboration with the Office of Community Outreach and Engagement.
- Prioritize early-phase treatment trials for refractory cancers, those that resist standard treatment, to address the high rate of advanced cancer diagnoses in the region.
More about the research
This grant supports the infrastructure that runs clinical cancer research at the University of Florida Health Cancer Center (UFHCC). It focuses on the center's catchment area, the region and populations it serves, where advanced cancer diagnoses are disproportionately common.
Why it matters
Cancer patients across the UFHCC catchment area, where advanced diagnoses are disproportionately common, could gain better access to new therapies, including early-phase trials for hard-to-treat cancers. Central safety monitoring, data-quality checks, and broader outreach aim to make these trials safer, more reliable, and more representative of the region's populations.
Known grants
From NIH and NSF research grants. Labs often have other funding we can't see.
Closest labs
Russell Szmulewitz
University of Chicago, IL·Medicine & Clinical Research
Provide centralized oversight, management and reporting for all cancer clinical trials at the cancer center, covering investigator-initiated, NCI network and industry-sponsored studies.
Martha Mims
Baylor College of Medicine, TX·Medicine & Clinical Research
Support cancer clinical trials across the Dan L Duncan Comprehensive Cancer Center by providing protocol development, financial and regulatory oversight, research nursing and data management through the Clinical Trials Support Unit.
Lawrence Flaherty
Wayne State University, MI·Medicine & Clinical Research
Conduct a two-stage scientific review of cancer clinical trial protocols, first by multidisciplinary disease teams and then by the Protocol Review and Monitoring Committee, judging rationale, design, statistics and feasibility.
The school
University of Florida: 65 labs on PI Pages, $1.3B a year on research, 795 research doctorates a year.
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