Institutes of Health

The UCI 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 UCI 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 UCI 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 UCI 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 UCI 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 UCI 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.