# UC BRAID Center for Accelerated  Innovation COVID-19 diagnostic project development

> **NIH NIH U54** · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES · 2020 · $2,760,000

## Abstract

PROJECT SUMMARY/ABSTRACT
The University of California Center for Accelerated Innovation created new mechanisms leveraging its diverse
strengths in diagnostics, therapeutics, and devices to support translation of promising early-stage inventions for
patient benefit. The Center is a consortium of five UC medical campuses: UC Davis, UC Irvine, UC Los Angeles,
UC San Diego, and UC San Francisco. Each campus has a thriving research enterprise, nationally ranked
medical school, and translational research institute funded by Clinical and Translational Science Awards (CTSA).
The Center taps into the vigor and creativity of California's legendary biomedical and engineering ecosystem
and integrates the many successful business, engineering and health sciences programs at our campuses. Our
program partners with well-established biomedical companies, venture capital firms, industry organizations and
nonprofits focused on medical innovation. The Center is supported by UC Biomedical Research Acceleration,
Integration, and Development (UC BRAID), a joint effort of the five UC biomedical campuses designed to
catalyze and accelerate biomedical, clinical, and translational research across the UC system. Together we: 1)
Engage University of California heart, lung and blood disease innovators in entrepreneurism through a
comprehensive education, training and mentorship program. 2) Solicit and select technologies with high
commercial potential that align with NHLBI's mission and addressed unmet medical needs or significant scientific
opportunity. 3) Incubate our most promising technologies in accordance with industry requirements to facilitate
their translation to commercial products that improve patient care and enhance health. We are now leveraging
this infrastructure and our network to support the development of COVID-19 diagnostic technologies of high
priority to the NIH.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10230907
- **Project number:** 3U54HL119893-07S1
- **Recipient organization:** UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES
- **Principal Investigator:** MICHAEL J PALAZZOLO
- **Activity code:** U54 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2020
- **Award amount:** $2,760,000
- **Award type:** 3
- **Project period:** 2020-08-06 → 2022-07-31

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10230907

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10230907, UC BRAID Center for Accelerated  Innovation COVID-19 diagnostic project development (3U54HL119893-07S1). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-24 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10230907. Licensed CC0.

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