The Washington University Digestive Diseases Research Core Center (DDRCC) focuses on regulatory factors in the GI tract. The concept of a DDRCC emerged from the collaborative and synergistic interactions of a large number of investigators engaged in digestive diseases-related research and includes 67 principal investigators in the clinical and basic science departments of the Washington University School of Medicine as full members.
Our Mission
- Formalize and provide mechanisms for expanding the extensive collaborative and synergistic interactions already in place between a large number of independently funded investigators engaged in digestive diseases-related research
- Pool department and divisional resources to provide services and expertise that might not otherwise be available to individual investigators, in a cost-effective manner
- Provide funding support for investigators to develop new digestive diseases-related research initiatives that will subsequently be competitive for more conventional mechanisms of funding
