BioCentury
ARTICLE | Strategy

Braiding UC campuses

UC campuses explore ways to coordinate translational research with partners

May 7, 2015 7:00 AM UTC

The University of California is tackling the problem of how to coordinate translational work across the UC campuses, and wants to build a model for how different academic institutions can work together to pull in industry partners. The goal is to provide a single port of call for external parties that allows them to capitalize on different pools of expertise, without multiplying the administrative hurdles.

In 2010, five UC campuses set up the University of California Biomedical Research Acceleration, Integration and Development (UC BRAID) program, to foster research exchange, and share data and expertise between the campuses. ...