Resources for Investigators

• 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

• 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