Center for Accelerated Innovation (UC CAI)

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Overview

The University of California Center for Accelerated Innovation (UC CAI) is a collaboration of the five UC medical campuses to accelerate the translation of our NHLBI-funded discoveries to improve health and health care and address unmet medical needs. UC CAI rigorously applies business and product-development practices from the biomedical industry to advance our most promising NHLBI-supported technologies toward commercialization. The CAI is based at UCLA.

 

Goals

• Engage University of California heart, lung and blood disease innovators in entrepreneurism through a comprehensive education, training and mentorship program

• Solicit and select technologies with high commercial potential that align with NHLBI’s mission and address unmet medical needs or significant scientific opportunity

• Incubate our most promising technologies in accordance with industry requirements to facilitate their translation to commercial products that improve patient care and enhance health

• Create a high-performing, sustainable infrastructure that will serve as a model to academic research centers