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 ReX
Legacy tool for research study cohorts from 15m de-identified patient records across UC Health
NEWS AND EVENTS

Advancing the Next Generation of Health Research
Together a diverse set of leaders, faculty, administrators, and partners learned about exciting advances, influenced UC BRAID’s objectives, and discussed new ways to position BRAID to be ready -- now and into the future.
Date: October 3, 2018 Los Angeles
NEWS AND EVENTS

UC Health - OptumLabs: Round 4 Awardees
We received 34 proposals from 6 campuses, and are pleased to announce the final 7 proposals which were chosen to receive OptumLabs-funded access to its database of de-identified, linked clinical and administrative claims information (the OptumLabs Data Warehouse)
Date: March 13, 2020 San Francisco

UC BRAID and UC Health Create Centralized COVID Data Set
Dr. Carrie L. Byington, executive vice president of UC Health and an infectious disease expert, urged the creation of the COVID Reasearch Data Set (CORDS), through UC BRAID, the five UC Clinical and Translational Science Award institutions, and the UC Health Data Warehouse team.
Date: July 15, 2020 Oakland

UC BRAID Collaborations Work to Impact Health throughout California
Celebrating ten years of shared infrastructure and programs that accelerate research and improve health, UC BRAID convened its annual meeting on October 14-15, 2019 at the UCLA Luskin Conference Center.
Date: November 1, 2019 Los Angles