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SC-ADRC Membership

The South Carolina-Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center (SC-ADRC) is a joint effort by the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC), the University of South Carolina (USC) and Clemson. Membership in the SC-ADRC is open to MUSC, USC and Clemson faculty and community partners who have an interest in neurodegenerative disease research, a desire to promote the Center’s mission to eradicate dementia and who meet the criteria listed below. SC-ADRC Full Members are given priority access to SC-ADRC-supported Shared Resources and resources available through the national ADRC network and repositories.

For questions about membership, please contact Laura Davis at davlaura@musc.edu.

Membership Categories and Eligibility

Interested individuals can potentially join the SC-ADRC as Full Members or as Affiliate Members.

Full Member

Full Members must have:

• A faculty appointment at MUSC, USC and/or Clemson AND

• Contributed to the peer-reviewed neurodegenerative disease literature within the past 3 years

In addition, Full Members must meet one of the following criteria:

• Principal investigator (PI, multi PI [MPI] or project leader) on a neurodegenerative disease-related, peer-reviewed, funded research grant or training grant (e.g., NIH K awards, COBRE awards, or other similar career development awards); OR

• Principal investigator or co-investigator on an investigator-initiated, neurodegenerative disease-focused clinical trial. Full members are expected to have made contributions to protocol development, implementation, patient accrual and participation at a level justifying publication co-authorship; OR

• Clinician accruing a minimum of 10 patients to neurodegenerative disease-focused clinical trials per year; OR

• Faculty at the assistant/instructor level planning to conduct neurodegenerative disease research who receive faculty appointment at MUSC, USC and/or Clemson who have a track record of productivity; OR

• Faculty who play a leadership/key role in the SC-ADRC (Senior Leader, Chair of a SC-ADRC Committee, Core leader); OR

• Faculty who play a critical role in team-based science, support the mission of the SC-ADRC, and have a consistent record of publishing neurodegenerative disease-related manuscripts in peer-reviewed journals; provided specialized medical, scientific or administrative expertise to the overall research mission of the SC-ADRC; OR

• At the Director’s discretion.

Research activities, grants, publications and clinical research participation of Full Members will be highlighted in the SC-ADRC P30 Grant. 

Affiliate Member

Affiliate Members are faculty, including clinicians and health care professionals, who are:

• An investigator, including non-faculty investigators (e.g., instructor, research associate, and non-tenure track assistant professors), at MUSC, USC and/or Clemson who have no active, independent, neurodegenerative disease-related extramural funding but are interested and/or involved in neurodegenerative disease research; OR

• Tenured faculty working in non-neurodegenerative disease-related areas who are interested in making his/her research more relevant to neurodegenerative diseases; OR

• An investigator at other academic institutions of higher learning that are deemed appropriate by the Director, who has initiated early interactions with SC-ADRC members and participates in SC-ADRC activities.