About Us

The iConnect team is a collaborative group of individuals from Penn Medicine’s Clinical and Translational Research Center and TrialX, Inc., with representation from research and clinical areas, marketing and informational technology.

Penn Medicine’s Center for Human Phenomic Science (CHPS)

Penn Medicine’s Center for Human Phenomic Science (CHPS): Center for Human Phenomic Science (CHPS) at Penn Medicine provides the resources, environment, operations and training to support clinical and translational research teams located at The Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania (HUP), Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP), and Penn Presbyterian Medical Center (PPMC).

CHPS supports clinical research of more than 300 investigators from the University of Pennsylvania and the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. The center is part of the Institute of Translational Medicine and Therapeutics (ITMAT) at Penn Medicine.

The Penn Medicine CHPS is supported by a Clinical and Translational Science Award (CTSA) from the National Center for Research Resources of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). This funding created a local consortium, known as the Clinical & Translational Science Collaborative (CTSC) that allows timely collaboration and shared resources, ultimately enabling researchers to provide new treatments more quickly to patients. The goal of the consortium is to transform clinical and translational research.

ITMAT and CHPS at Penn developed and piloted iConnect, with the ultimate goal of providing an easier method to search for research studies at Penn Medicine and to allow volunteers to connect with research teams.

Participating Institutes

At this time, clinical research studies across Penn Medicine hospitals are listed on this site, including Lancaster General Health.

Cancer trials at Penn Medicine are also listed HERE.

If you were unable to find a research study for your specific disease or condition, please check back at a later date as additional Institutes and Departments at Penn Medicine plan to join iConnect.

For information about pediatric research opportunities at CHOP, please visit: http://www.research.chop.edu/research/clinical-research