As an academic health system, UCI is uniquely positioned to provide world-class clinical care and access to innovative trials designed by investigators and industry partners to treat the most complex medical conditions. Our Institutes of Health are leading impactful research in fields ranging from cancer to stem cell therapeutics. Collectively, our goal is simple: to strengthen and accelerate the pathway of discovery from the medical laboratory to our patients.
The UCI Health Chao Family Comprehensive Cancer Center led by Associate Vice Chancellor and Director Richard Van Etten, MD, PhD, is the only National Cancer Institute (NCI)-designated comprehensive cancer center in Orange County. NCI cancer centers are national leaders in cancer research, education and treatment, and centers designated as “comprehensive” are at the forefront, signifying that they have met rigorous criteria aimed at providing world-class patient care and innovative research.
The UC Irvine Institute for Clinical and Translational Science (ICTS), led by Director Eric Vilain, MD, PhD, is funded by the National Institutes of Health under the Clinical and Translational Sciences Award program. The ICTS functions as a local centerpiece for the national program, and is dedicated to advancing scientific discovery and medical breakthroughs through accelerating discoveries from the lab and translating them into life-altering medical care.
The UC Irvine Institute for Precision Health is led by Interim Director Dan Cooper, MD. The mission of IPH is to combine our health sciences, engineering, statistics, machine learning, artificial intelligence, clinical genomics, data science, public health, and healthcare delivery system capabilities to provide personalized and effective health and wellness strategies and, in doing so, confront the linked challenges of health equity and the high cost of care.
The UC Irvine Sue & Bill Gross Stem Cell Research Center, led by Director Aileen Anderson, PhD, is a dynamic center encompassing a diverse array of interdisciplinary investigators that span the Schools of Medicine, Biological Sciences, Pharmacy & Pharmaceutical Sciences, Engineering, Arts and Law. Research programs include an NIH-sponsored T32 training grant, state-of-the-art shared equipment and research services programs, community lecture series, annual stem cell science symposium and seminar series.
As a full-service clinical research unit, the UC Irvine Center for Clinical Research (CCR) is committed to serving patients, researchers and sponsors with the highest level of clinical care and operational standards available. The CCR is a premier clinical research organization providing life-saving clinical trials by strengthening and accelerating the pathway of discovery from bench to bedside. Aligned with a top academic medical center, CCR is uniquely positioned to deliver world class clinical care and innovative trials from a large number of pharmaceutical and device companies nationwide.
More Centers and Institutes Promoting Health and Wellbeing
In addition to the centers and institutes listed above, there are an abundance of research organizations and university-wide resources devoted to the promotion of health and wellbeing.
- Academic Geriatric Resource Center
- Brain Imaging Center
- Center for Artificial Intelligence in Diagnostic Medicine (CAIDM)
- Center for Cancer Genetics Research and Prevention
- Center for Complex Biological Systems
- Center for Disaster Medical Sciences
- Center for Future Health Professionals
- Center for Healthspan Sciences
- Center for Hearing Research (CHR)
- Center for Molecular and Mitochondrial Medicine and Genetics (MAMMAG)
- Center for Occupational & Environmental Health
- Center for the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory
- Center for Tissue Engineering
- Center for Trauma and Injury Prevention Research
- Center of Excellence on Elder Abuse and Neglect
- Conte Center for Brain Programming in Adolescent Vulnerabilities
- Edwards Lifesciences Center for Advanced Cardiovascular Technology
- Facility for Imaging and Brain Research (FIBRE)
- Genetic Epidemiology Research Institute (GERI)
- Health Policy Research Institute
- Institute for Genomics and Bioinformatics (IGB)
- Institute for Interdisciplinary Salivary Bioscience Research
- Irvine Center for Addiction Neuroscience (ICAN)
- Medical Education Simulation Center
- Neuroscience Imaging Center (NIC)
- Ovarian Cancer Center
- Reeve-Irvine Research Center (RIRC)
- UC Irvine Health Diabetes Center
- UCI Interdisciplinary Center for the Scientific Study of Ethics and Morality
- Vaccine Research and Development Center (VRDC)