Since 1954, the NIH Clinical Center, through the Clinical Research Volunteer Program, has provided an opportunity for healthy volunteers--local, national, and international--to participate in medical research studies (sometimes called protocols or trials). Healthy volunteers provide researchers with important information for comparison with people who have specific illnesses. Every year, nearly 3,500 healthy volunteers participate in studies at the NIH.

Mandy Jawara
301-402-6646
crvp@cc.nih.gov

http://clinicalcenter.nih.gov/
recruit/volunteers.html