Strategic Goals
1) Maximize recruitment and retention of outstanding faculty and staff at all levels.
- Example tactic:
- Creating a centralized interdisciplinary recruitment review committee to ensure a standard of excellence in new hires.
2) Optimize use of existing space and thoughtfully use future space.
- Example tactic:
- Moving 33 interdisciplinary labs into a central location, the Center for Health Sciences South Tower.
3) Build efficient and effective infrastructure to facilitate excellent research;
4) Stimulate and optimize new and successful areas of research.
- Example tactics:
- Developing a philanthropic effort for investment in a new immunology institute.
- Providing financial support for interdepartmental seed grant funding (Research Themes).
- Investing in the Institute for Precision Health (in collaboration with the health system) and in a new Computational Medicine department (in collaboration with the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering).
5) Maximize all sources of research funding — current and future — across entire enterprise.
- Example tactic:
- Implementation of a transparent and modern funds flow model (in collaboration with UCLA health system).
