Data Coordinating Center

Masahiko ANDO
Director,
Clinical Professor

The Data Coordinating Center, established in August 2018, take responsibility for the integrity of research data from clinical trials conducted at Nagoya University Hospital through the quality control process. As a member of Academic Research Organizations founded at Translational and Clinical Research Core Centers and/or Clinical Research Core Hospital, we also support external clinical researchers to conduct high-quality clinical trials. We will continuously assist clinical researchers to provide clinically meaningful outcomes as far as possible by efficient allocation of limited resources.

The Data Coordinating Center is responsible for ensuring the quality and reliability of data generated in clinical trials. A multidisciplinary team—including data managers, clinical monitors, and biostatisticians—collaborates to support activities ranging from study design to data analysis. To enhance the reliability of research, the Center incorporates principles such as Quality by Design and risk-based approaches. It also leverages advanced technologies, including AI, to improve data management and operational efficiency, thereby promoting the conduct of high-quality clinical research.

Mission: To control the quality and integrity of clinical trial data by clinical monitoring and data management.

Mission: To forward in academia the conduct of highly confident clinical studies based on regulations, notifications, protocols, and others, to protect the human rights, maintain the safety, and improve the welfare of subjects, as well as to contribute to the reliability of clinical study results.

Mission: To appropriately design scientific, rational, and ethical clinical research. To support investigators in an attempt to guarantee the reliability thereof and from objective and professional standpoints.

Mission: To forward patient enrollment in investigator-initiated clinical trials and clinical studies through subject recruiting using the patient accumulation registry and to support the clinical network collaboration inside and outside the Chubu region.

Mission: Implementing data science solutions for supporting medical research, and accelerating advances in public health and medicine.

Mission: To enhance quality of medical research conducted in central Japan through excellent use of methods in biostatistics and bioinformatics.