Rachael Sak, Assistant Director, CTSI Strategic Initiatives, and Clay Johnston, Director, CTSI, present on the UCBraid initiative.

1. Clinical and Translational
Science Institute / CTSI
at the University of California, San Francisco
More Than the Sum of its Parts
Leveraging a UC Network
Rachael Sak, Assistant Director, CTSI Strategic Initiatives

2. UC BRAID
• Biomedical
Research
Acceleration, Inte
gration & UC Davis
Development UCSF
• Created in 2010
• Led by the PIs of
the Clinical &
Translational UCLA
UC Irvine
Science Centers
UCSD

3. UC BRAID: Why do we exist?
• Issues better solved together than separately
• Shared policies, resources, expertise
• Takes a force of will

4. UC BRAID: What does it do?
• Identifies shared challenges
• Leverages expertise and resources
• Develops system-wide solutions
– Policy changes
– New infrastructure
– Standardized processes

5. UC BRAID: How does it work?
• Not a parallel organization
• Conducted by those that create and
implement the processes and do the work
• Governance is conduit for identifying
needs, campus experts, enabling
partnerships and providing administrative
support

6. UC BRAID: Areas of Initial Focus
• UC ReX
• Contracting
• IRB
• Drug & device development & discovery
• Metrics
• Biospecimen banking (new)

7. UC BRAID: Proposed New Initiatives
• Research cores sharing
• Multicenter clinical trials coordination
• Faculty research profiles
• Biospecimen banking
• Health care quality data sharing

8. UC BRAID Participants
UC Davis UC Los Angeles UC San Diego UC San Francisco
Ahmad Hakim-Elahi Alisa Irwin Aziz Boxwala Lattice Armstead
David Asmuth Alison Orkin David Boyle Courtney McFall
Davera Gabriel Ann Pollack Gary Firestein Clay Johnston
Denise Owensby Arash Naeim Gene Hasegawa Douglas Berman
Erick Jenkins Anne Skinner Jim Lohr Eric Mah
Joshua Miller Bishoy Anastasi Lucilla Onho-Machado Erik Lium
Kate Marusina Brian Roe Michael Gilson Irene Shin
Kent Anderson Douglas Bell Mike Caliguri Jim Kiriakis
Lars Berglund Helene Orescan Mike Ziegler Jim Wells
Michael Hogarth Kenneth Bradley Margarita Baggett John Heldens
Rafael Gacel Meghan Brennan Julie Auger
Mohammed Mahbouba June Lee
UC Irvine Sarah Dry Alan Venook
Bruce Morgan Sharon Friend Margaret Tempero
Dan Mercola Steve Dubinett Michael Blum
Dan Cooper Mike Bunnapradist Michael Thomas
Daniele Piomelli Mini Kahlon
Jacob Levin UC Office of the President Rachael Sak
Jim Murry Hillary Kalay Susan Shih
Lisa Dahm Jeff Hall Teri Melese
Madeleine Pahl
Paolo Casali
Ruth Mulnard