UC Health Campuses Meet to Review Progress of Biomedical Research Collaboration

UC BRAID program leaders, left to right: Gary S. Firestein, MD (UC San Diego); Dan M. Cooper, MD (UC Irvine); Lars Berglund, MD, PhD (UC Davis); Clay Johnston, MD, PhD (UCSF); and Steven M. Dubinett, MD (UCLA).
October 19, 2012
By Steve Tokar

With a focus on improving biomedical research collaboration within the University of California system, representatives from five UC campuses and the UC Office of the President (UCOP) met recently for an annual retreat in Oakland to review the progress of the University of California Biomedical Research Acceleration, Integration, and Development (UC BRAID) program.
 
Since 2010, the UC BRAID consortium has been working to bring together UC’s five health campuses—Davis, Irvine, Los Angeles, San Diego, and San Francisco—with the goal of reducing barriers to biomedical research by pooling data, resources and expertise.
After only two years, we are seeing real success.
UC BRAID chair Clay Johnston, MD, PhD
 
“After only two years, we are seeing real success,” said UC BRAID chair Clay Johnston, MD, PhD, associate vice chancellor of research at UCSF and director of the Clinical and Translational Science Institute (CTSI). “Thanks in large part to support from UCOP, which provides critical funding and in-kind support, this group has become a center of coordination and cross-campus synergy that is having a demonstrably positive effect on research at UC.”
 
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