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Our news coverage shows the many ways UC BRAID supports creative team science and improves the health of patients in California, and nationwide.
August 2026: Antonia Petruse Named Executive Director
January 2026: CTSA News Announcement: UC Systemwide Community Engagement Retreat
November 2025: Perspectives: Building trust and impact in clinical trials through community engagement
November 2025: UC Merced Joins First Gathering on Community Connections to Research
October 2025: Inaugural UC Systemwide Community Engagement Retreat
October 2025: UC BRAID Community Engagement Retreat unites researchers and community leaders to advance health equity across California
September 2025: UC’s health community benefit and uncompensated care spending reaches $5.9 billion
March 2025: From bench to bedside, UC’s clinical and translational science institutes are saving lives
October 2024: New ways of working together: A shared coverage analysis pilot project
August 2024: UC BRAID Clinical Research Summit 2024 at UCSD
July 2024: 6th Annual 2024 Drug Discovery Symposium and Networking Event
May 2024: KL2 Amos Scholar Symposium a Great Success
March 2024: UC BRAID Annual Program Review Plus: UCLA Post
October 2023 - January 2024: CDI2/UC BRAID Health Data Warehouse: UC-Wide Recruitment Pilot Project
July 2023: Shaping the Future of Biomedical Research: Insights from the UC BRAID Leadership Retreat
February 2023: Making Connections: serving the public and the clinical research enterprise of the University of California (Golden Award Winner)
February 2023: 2020 - 2022 UC BRAID Program Highlights
October 2022: UC CORDS connects scientists with patient data for actionable insights into COVID-19 and more equitable care
September 2022: Elizabeth Boyd, PhD named Director, UC BRAID
August 2022: Golden Award Winner - Making Connections: serving the public and the clinical research enterprise of the University of California
December 2021: UC-wide COVID Cohort Dataset Transfer Facilitated by UCSF's IRB
November 2021: UC BRAID grants support work toward better health equity in COVID-19 translational research
October 2021: UC BRAID Funding for COVID-19 Health Equity Projects
March 2021: UC BRAID led transfer of UC COVID-19 patient information to federal database
January 2021: Volkow Fireside Chat
July 2020: UC BRAID and Health create centralized data set to accelerate COVID-19 research
April 2020: Creation of a UC-Wide COVID Research Data Set
March 2020: UC Health - OptumLabs: Round 4 Awardee Awardees
November 2019: UC BRAID Collaborations Work to Impact Health throughout California
July 2019: Laurie Herraiz Appointed Executive Director of UC BRAID
February 2019: Five UCs Benefit from Clinical Trials Website
December 2018: University of California holds Inaugural UC Pitch Day Event at Applied Innovation
November 2018: UC BRAID Retreat Focuses on Advancing Clinical and Translational Research
December 2017: Building a Learning Health Ecosystem and Expanding Impact
October 2017: UC BRAID Weaves Network of Successful Strategies with Goal of Improving Health
May 2017: UC BRAID’s D4 Workgroup Receives $2.2 Million to Fund New UC Drug Discovery Consortium
December 2016: UC BRAID Focuses on the Learning Healthcare System and Translating Discovery to Health
July 2016: UC BRAID TrialQuest & UCSF Open Proposals Win University of California’s Highest Technology Award
July 2016: Recipients of the UC Cures for Alzheimer’s Disease Initiative Awards Announced
July 2016: UC BRAID's TrialQuest Tool Wins 2016 Sautter Golden Award
May 2016: UC BRAID Helps Foster Innovative Collaboration to Advance Child Health
January 2016: UC Launches New $4M Alzheimer’s Disease Initiative
November 2015: UC BRAID Discusses New Systemwide Tactics for Accelerating Biomedical Research
September 2015: UC-ReX Initiative Honored with 2015 Sautter Award
May 2015: Networking UC Campuses to Enhance Industry Collaborations
April 2015: University of California Medical Campuses Lay Framework for Drug Discovery Alliance
March 2015: UC ReX Employed for Research Data for Complex Contraception Registry Study
February 2015: CTSA Clinical Trial Recruitment: UC ReX Enables Uterine Fibroid Comparative-Effectiveness Study
November 2014: UC Translational Medicine Leaders Chart Course at Annual Retreat in San Diego
August 2014: UC Autism Summit Offers Hope for Help
April 2014: NCATS Issues First Annual Report
November 2013: UC Translational Medicine Leaders Celebrate Achievements with an Eye Toward the Future
September 2013: NHLBI Awards UC CTSA's $12 million to Center for Accelerated Innovation
September 2013: UC BRAID Consortium Named Designated Center to Translate Innovations into Improved Health
September 2013: NBC 4 Los Angeles Coverage on NHLBI award for Accelerated Innovation (video)
October 2012: UC Health Campuses Meet to Review Progress of Biomedical Research Collaboration
October 2011: Campuses Unite to Bring Medical Breakthroughs to Patients More Quickly
September 2011: UC BRAID Accelerating Translational Research in CA