Welcome to South Carolina Clinical Research

Clinical research tests new or old treatments in human volunteers to see whether they should be approved for broader use in the general population. A treatment could be a drug, medical device, or biologic, such as a vaccine, blood product, or gene therapy. Potential treatments, however, must be carried out on laboratory animals first to determine potential toxicity before they can be tried on people. When the treatment under consideration meets acceptable safety profiles, it would then be moved into clinical trials.