LIMBIC-CENC desires to collaborate with researchers, consortia, industry, and other organizations that have similar goals of understanding the basic, translation, or clinical science of mild Traumatic Brain Injury (mTBI) and its chronic effects in order to improve clinical care and outcomes for persons with mTBI and/or to improve the rigor of research within the mTBI field.

The consortium policy letter attached below directs how to 1) choose and capture meaningful interactions with LIMBIC-CENC personnel, 2) define the level of interactions, and 3) ensure the products which those interactions create are in alignment with the LIMBIC-CENC mission and the aims of the LIMBIC-CENC Cores and its research studies. Attached to the letter are appendices A-J which details definitions, levels of interactions, provides possible products which may result from external interactions, provides external-facing website instructions, and details data sharing efforts between LIMBIC-CENC personnel and external collaborators.

If you are already associated with LIMBIC-CENC personnel and interested in requesting data, please Login to the website and submit your request through the Data Request portal on the Consortium Operations page.

If you are associated with LIMBIC-CENC personnel, but do not yet have website access, please reach out to the Data and Biostatics Core at cencdbc@vcuhealth.org

If this is your first time requesting data with LIMBIC-CENC, please make sure to review the Data Dictionary and How to Make a Data Request Pages before submitting your Preliminary Proposal.

How to Make a Data Request

The data request process consists of two forms: (1) a preliminary and (2) a full proposal. Both will have to be approved by the LIMBIC-CENC Scientific Review Committee before data can be released. These forms are used for any data and/or specimen requests made by any LIMBIC-CENC affiliated investigators, researchers, and staff, and their invited collaborators. These forms are not intended for requests from non-LIMBIC-CENC investigators and/or public use.

The point of contact for this policy letter is Sidney R. Hinds II, CO-PI and LIMBIC-CENC External Collaboration (LCEC) lead, cenc@vcu.edu.

Click here to download a document detailing LIMBIC-CENC’s full external interactions policy.