Translating Discovery into Health
University of California Biomedical Research Acceleration, Integration, & Development (UC BRAID) creates opportunities to improve health for Californians and beyond. Our platform for collaboration helps catalyze innovative ideas and build and leverage shared resources.
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PROMOTING EFFICIENCIES
So long, silos! UC BRAID and our network of research administration experts across the University of California work to test and implement new ways of working together more efficiently. We break down barriers, making communication more effective, reducing impediments and redundancies, ultimately making it faster and easier for UC to conduct the next generation of research.
Contracting
Contracting offices face increasing internal and external pressure to improve turnaround times for clinical trial contract execution. To address these challenges, UC BRAID convened a network of campus contracting leadership. More...
Participant Recruitment
Participant recruitment is a significant challenge in many studies involving human subjects. The 5 campuses of UC BRAID, UC Riverside, and Stanford have partnered to build a portfolio of tools and services to improve the participant recruitment processes. More...
IRB
UC BRAID works closely with campus IRB Directors and staff as they adapt to a changing regulatory landscape. This close collaboration provides opportunities for us to test new approaches that streamline IRB approval and speed up clinical trial activation. More...
UC BRAID facilitated linking our clinical trial networks, for the first time giving our patients access to cutting edge therapies across the UC health systems through single IRB review and a simplified contracting process.
Gary Firestein, Director
Clinical and Translational Research Institute ,
UC San Diego
DEVELOPING TOOLS
We are excited to showcase a diverse set of tools developed by our partners across the University of California. One example is a clinical trial finder that helps researchers, patients and physicians explore the broad portfolio of trials across the state. Another is a toolkit to assist UC investigators through the contracting process for investigator-initiated trials. Take a look and see what else is on offer.
UC Clinical Trials
Search for clinical trials across UC Health
UC Profiles
Find UC Health researchers in over 20k profiles
Investigator Initiated Trials
Facilitate the contracting process for Investigator Initiated Trials
with this Toolkit
UC TrialQuest
Find IRB approval status for studies across the 5 UC Medical Centers
UC ReX
Legacy tool for research study cohorts from 15m de-identified patient records across UC Health
Virtual Biospecimen Discovery
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Locate biospecimens at repositories across UC
UC Core
Advance drug discovery with these resources
NEWS AND EVENTS
Inaugural UC Systemwide Community Engagement Retreat
The University of California Biomedical Research Acceleration, Integration, and Development program (UC BRAID) convened its inaugural Community Engagement Retreat at UC Davis’s new Aggie Square on September 10–11, 2025. The two-day event brought together leaders, researchers, and community partners from across the UC system, the state of California, and the NIH National Center for Advancing Translational Science (NCATS). The summit facilitated initial conversations and networking across multiple campuses and community partners to promote community-engaged involvement, leadership, and participation in clinical and translational science and the research process.
Date: September 10-11, 2025 | Sacramento
Recruitment Opportunity
Dr. Camille Nebeker and the UC San Diego ReCODE Health team are conducting a study on data management practices in digital health research, focusing on privacy policy communication. We are inviting up to 150 individuals involved in design or review of digital health research to complete a 30-minute online survey. The survey explores strategies to simplify and communicate data management practices described in privacy policies. Interested? Check eligibility here or visit https://my.ctri.ucsd.edu/surveys/?s=FDT7LTNAFLTA43JJ
For questions, contact Dr. Nebeker at nebeker@ucsd.edu or Brittany York at byork@ucsd.edu.
Date: July 2025 | San Diego
New ways of working together: A shared coverage analysis pilot project
Under the guidance of UC BRAID and the UC Cancer Consortium, UC Davis and UC San Francisco explored the possibility of a consistent approach to coverage analysis, a necessary but sometimes time-consuming process for sponsored clinical research agreements.
Date: October 2024 | Davis