CCaTS Names New Director for Saint Marys Clinical Research and Trials Unit (CRTU)

Adrian Vella, M.D., Endocrinology, was named director of the Saint Marys Clinical Research and Trials Unit (CRTU) in the Center for Clinical and Translational Science.

Dr. Vella will work to enhance the services and support the Saint Marys Clinical Research and Trials Unit provides to Mayo Clinic investigators as they conduct clinical research.

"Dr. Vella is an investigator with a long track record of National Institutes of Health funding and whose research is based on inpatient metabolic studies," says Sundeep Khosla, M.D., director of the Center for Clinical and Translational Science. "He is in an ideal position to lead our inpatient Clinical Research and Trials Unit as we continue to address new opportunities and challenges."

The Saint Marys Clinical Research and Trials Unit offers researchers access to a wide range of inpatient resources, such as exercise and physiology labs, research nutrition staff and a metabolic kitchen, sleep study facilities, and more.

Dr. Khosla will continue to lead the Charlton Clinical Research and Trials Unit, Extended Clinical Research and Trials Unit, and the Mobile Clinical Research and Trials Unit.