About UCLA CTSI
The UCLA CTSI represents a research consortium, which includes the previously established General Clinical Research Center (GCRC) at Cedars-Sinai. The Consortium has been developed in response to the National Institute of Health's Roadmap Initiative which provides for the funding of various Clinical and Translational Units throughout the nation through the Clinical and Translational Science Award. To date 38 awards have been funded by the NIH.
The GCRC at Cedars-Sinai was launched in 1994, in partnership with the GCRC at Harbor General (now the Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center), and is funded by the National Institutes of Health's National Center for Research Resources (NCRR). The GCRC at Cedars-Sinai supports over 100 protocols across different specialties, and yields over 125 scientific publications per year.
In addition to the Cedars-Sinai GCRC, the CTSI will include the GCRCs at UCLA and The Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, and the Clinical Research Center at The Charles R. Drew University of Medicine at Science.
Mission of the UCLA CTSI
The mission of the UCLA Clinical and Translational Science Institute (CTSI) is to provide the infrastructure needed to build, sustain, and facilitate exceptional interdisciplinary, translational research teams and networks, and ensure the rapid dissemination and adoption of new clinical-translational approaches and applications that advance patient-centered, community-responsive medicine to improve health status and outcomes across the life-cycle.
Goals of the UCLA CTSI
To accomplish its mission of fostering exceptional interdisciplinary, translational research teams and networks, and ensuring the rapid dissemination and adoption of new clinical-translational approaches and applications, the CTSI has the following goals:
Goal 1: To develop a unique national resource for clinical and translational research producing high-quality, cost-effective outcomes that leave no community behind.
Goal 2: To promulgate an interdisciplinary team model as the prime science-driven organizational tool to catalyze the discovery and application of new knowledge and techniques to health and health care improvement.
Goal 3: To create coordinated, comprehensive sets of support services and resources tailored to the unique challenges of interdisciplinary and community-based translational research.
Goal 4: To create and transform our educational, training, and career development programs to prepare the next generation of biomedical scientists to embrace interdisciplinary approaches and integrate discovery with community-based health initiatives.
Goal 5: To create a new integrated academic home for the CTSI to improve the conduct of clinical and translational research that addresses the challenges of our unique community-based approach to biomedical discovery, and health and health care improvement.
