Research
- Focus Areas
- Investigator Resources
- Research Day
Investigator Resources
Administrative Support
- Electronic Proposal Development (ePD) System
- Web-based system that lets departments and PIs create, upload, approve, and store, sponsored research proposals
- Graduate Division
- Central resource for all matters related to graduate education at UC San Diego
- Health Sciences Sponsored Project Pre-Award Office (HS SPPO)
- Provide exceptional customer service, guidance, and training to faculty, postdoctoral scholars, trainees, and staff to ensure they submit superior quality proposals that maximize extramural funding for the Health Sciences community, as well as further their personal and professional advancement
- Office of Clinical Trials Administration (OCTA)
- Provides comprehensive contracting for investigators and administrators to enhance their ability to achieve excellence in the clinical trial arena while adhering to University policies
- Office of Contract & Grant Administration
- Responsible for the stewardship of sponsored research and research collaborations from government, for-profit industry, non-profit, foreign, and University of California sponsors
- Office of Grant Development (Moores Cancer Center)
- Assists UC San Diego Moores Cancer Center faculty members in pursuit of external research and training support, particularly large-scale program and center grants, and young investigator awards
- Office of Innovation and Commercialization
- Accelerates the commercialization of UC San Diego innovations and contributes to a sustainable society by empowering a diverse entrepreneurial culture on campus and strengthening a dynamic innovation ecosystem
- Office of International Affairs
- Provides planning and support for UC San Diego's engagement with the world outside the United States and assists the campus in defining objectives for collaboration in research, education, and service with institutions in other countries
- Office of Research Affairs
Collaboration
- Altman Clinical & Translational Research Institute (ACTRI)
- Provides infrastructure and support for basic, translational, and clinical research throughout the San Diego region; expedites the translation of discoveries into therapies; and facilitates the training and education of the next generation of researchers
- Funding Opportunities (Pivot)
- Answers the growing demands on research developers to quickly discover the right funding opportunities and effectively collaborate with their colleagues
- Research Intelligence Portal
- A resource for the campus community to develop and search faculty profiles, identify new federal funding opportunities, and form research teams
- Shared Research Facilities (Campus)
- Listing of current research core facilities that are accessible to UCSD faculty, fellows, staff and students
- Share Resource Facilities (Moores Cancer Center)
Investigative Services
- Health Sciences Recharge Facilities
- Medicine - Biostatistics Research Center
- Offers expertise in applied and methodological biostatistics collaborative research
- Medicine - Cardiovascular Physiology Core
- A small animal cardiovascular physiology/microsurgery center, offering imaging and interventions, including hemodynamics, aorticbanding, coronary-artery ligation, telemetric ECG/BP, and cardiac cell/gene transfer
- Medicine - Center for Computational Biology & Bioinformatics (CCBB)
- Provides investigators with core bioinformatics expertise to manage and analyze large molecular datasets, especially from next-generation sequencing
- Medicine - Center for Management Science in Health
- Provides direct workflow observations and interpretation of clinical encounters
- Medicine - Jain Laboratory
- Chemical analytics and discovery
- Medicine - Multiplexed Quantitative Proteomic Analysis
- Uses high resolution Orbitrap mass spectrometers and isobaric tandem mass tags to quantify whole proteomes from lysates or protein-protein interactions from immunoprecipitated samples
- Medicine - Naviaux Lab Metabolomics Core
- Polar and non-plar metabolomics
- Medicine - Radioimmunoassay Lab
- Medicine - RDCC: Animal Genetics Core
- Facilitates the generation of essential strains of mice for research in rheumatic diseases
Mentorship
- Research Experience & Applied Learning (REAL) Portal
- Offers research, internship, international, service learning, entrepreneurial, leadership, and other co-curricular opportunities that help students build real-world skills and apply knowledge gained in the classroom
- Research Training Opportunities for Junior Faculty (ACTRI KL2 Grant Support)
- The KL2 grant mechanism is an institutional equivalent of a K23, K01 or K08 award for junior faculty with early didactic opportunities through the CREST program and a mentored research experience
Personnel
- Office of International Faculty & Scholars
- Provides a wide array of services to academic departments and the over 2,500 international professors, researchers, and visiting scholars coming to UC San Diego
- Office of Postdoctoral & Visiting Scholar Affairs
- Office of Research Affairs - Academic Research Personnel Unit
- Processes appointments and reviews for academic titles in the Research Scientist, Project Scientist, Specialist, and Academic Coordinator series for the Organized Research Units (ORUs) on the General Campus
Research & Clinical Trial Search Tools
- UC San Diego Health Research & Clinical Trials
- Provides information about the clinical trials happening at UCSD and research partner sites
- UCSD Moores Cancer Center Clinical Trials
Regulation
- Health Sciences Compliance Program
- Supports all UCSDH employees and all those who act on behalf of UCSDH in making decisions consistent with the Ethical Values and Standards of Ethical Conduct of the University
- Human Research Protections Program (HRPP)
- Promotes high quality, ethical research, by serving as the advocate for the rights and welfare of persons who participate in research programs conducted by UCSD faculty, staff, and students
- Office of Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC)
- Oversees the university's animal care and use program and is responsible for reviewing all animal use protocols, ensuring compliance with federal regulations, inspecting animal facilities and laboratories, and overseeing training and educational programs
- Research: Polices, Compliance, & Ethics
- Find out about policies, compliance, and ethics information related to research
Safety
- Environmental Health & Safety Contacts
- EH&S Director & Business Operations Division
- Research Safety
- UC San Diego research safety policies, procedures, and services for research and teaching laboratories