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. READ MORE
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
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
Laurie Herraiz Named Executive Director of UC BRAID
On Thursday, July 18, Dan Cooper, director of the Institute for Clinical and Translational Science at UC Irvine, announced the appointment of Laurie Herraiz as executive director of UC Biomedical Research Acceleration, Integration, and Development (UC BRAID).
Date: July 19, 2019 Oakland
Five UCs Benefit from Clinical Trials Website
Enabled by UC BRAID, UCSF CTSI’s Research Technology team competed for and won a two-year NIH supplement grant to work with four other UC Health campuses (UCLA, UCSD, UCD, and UCI) to create a UC wide clinical trial finder, as well as to spin up campus-specific sites.
Date: February 27, 2019 San Francisco
UCSD Uses a Systems Approach to Assess and Improve IRB Performance
An article in the Journal of Clinical and Translational Science details how over 8,000 IRB, coverage analysis, and contract applications were analyzed using machine learning to quantify and improve interdependencies within the regulatory environment.
Date: November 20, 2018 San Diego
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