Wake Forest School of Medicine (KUMC Consortium)

For 20 years, the staff and doctors at The Airways Clinical Research Center have offered clinical trials that focus on the study of airway diseases (asthma and COPD), cystic fibrosis, and severe asthma studies. Our center, located only a mile away from Wake Forest Baptist Health Hospital, is a state-of-the-art facility with an in-house secured and temperature monitored medication room, in-house bronchoscopy suite with private recovery room, and in-house laboratory. Airways research, in conjunction with Wake Forest School of Medicine, is broad-based and well-supported. It includes many federally funded grants and several industry-sponsored trials. Several hundred patients take part in medical research studies every year. When a qualified candidate chooses to participate in a clinical study, the research often has the potential to benefit thousands of others. Many of our research participants at Wake Forest have volunteered as part of our longitudinal cohorts – we have known many of our patients for 20 years.