Research Pillar
Vision: Discover the basis for health and cures for disease
Strategic Goals
- Maximize recruitment and retention of outstanding faculty and staff at all levels.
- Optimize the use of existing space and thoughtfully use future space.
- Build efficient and effective infrastructure to facilitate excellent research.
- Stimulate and optimize new and successful areas of research.
- Maximize all sources of research funding — current and future — across the entire enterprise.
Progress Spotlights
Research Themes
Creating seven Research Themes, offering interdepartmental seed grant funding and providing co-located space in the new South Tower building.
Precision Health
Establishing an Institute for Precision Health (IPH) and a Department of Computational Medicine in partnership with the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering.
COVID Research
Committing $11M of philanthropic funds to COVID research and creating a structured series of oversight committees to allow rapid, decisive evaluation and distribution of funding to the most impactful COVID research on campus.
Computational Medicine
Launching the Department of Computational Medicine to transform patient care using artificial intelligence and genomics.