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Research priorities of the CNSI at UCLA build upon the work of our Members, over 150 leading faculty representing nearly 35 Departments. CNSI provides a unique collaborative atmosphere that leverages pooled talent and resources to address the most serious and perplexing questions of our time. The Institute facilitates powerful collaborations among world-class scientists in fields ranging from applied mathematics and engineering to the natural and biomedical sciences. By leveraging the Institute’s central location in the heart of UCLA’s Court of Sciences and proximity to UCLA’s David Geffen School of Medicine, Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center, and Eli and Edythe Broad Center of Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Research, CNSI supports problem-based, team science initiatives in targeted areas.
Research priorities of the CNSI at UCLA build upon the work of our Members, over 150 leading faculty representing nearly 35 Departments. CNSI provides a unique collaborative atmosphere that leverages pooled talent and resources to address the most serious and perplexing questions of our time. The Institute facilitates powerful collaborations among world-class scientists in fields ranging from applied mathematics and engineering to the natural and biomedical sciences. By leveraging the Institute’s central location in the heart of UCLA’s Court of Sciences and proximity to UCLA’s David Geffen School of Medicine, Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center, and Eli and Edythe Broad Center of Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Research, CNSI supports problem-based, team science initiatives in targeted areas:
Research Facilitation
The CNSI Grants Facilitation Team works to catalyze interactions between new and existing teams of researchers to develop collaborative proposals that cross disciplines and support the key research mission of the Institute. Our team offers organizational assistance including meeting scheduling, budget construction, editing, and writing assistance to meet submission deadlines with polished proposals in compliance with government, university, and sponsor regulations and requirements.
Research News
January 12, 2021 | Could the ocean hold the key to reducing carbon dioxide in the atmosphere?
A UCLA research team has proposed a pathway that could help extract billions of metric tons of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere each year. Instead of directly capturing atmospheric carbon dioxide, the technology would extract it from seawater, enabling the seawater...
January 7, 2020 | Study reveals new details about how bacterial toxins cause life-threatening colitis
Research led by scientists from UCLA and Harvard University has uncovered details about how the bacterium Clostridioides difficile causes excessive inflammation in the gut that can lead to potentially deadly colitis. Studying C. difficile toxin A, one of two toxins...
January 7, 2021 | Optical network shapes pulses of light
A team of UCLA engineers and researchers has developed a new method to shape light pulses by creating physical networks that are composed specially engineered layers.Optical network shapes pulses of light by UCLA Engineering Institute for Technology Advancement...
December 9, 2020 | Four UCLA faculty named to National Academy of Inventors
Four professors from the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering have been chosen as 2020 fellows by the National Academy of Inventors. Election to an academy fellowship is the highest professional distinction exclusive for inventors and innovators from academic...
December 7, 2020 | New electron-detecting camera speeds up bio-imaging
A recent addition to instrumentation at the California NanoSystems Institute at UCLA offers researchers an enhanced atomic-level view of frozen biological samples, with improvements in both detail and speed compared to the previous generation of technology. ...
December 2, 2020 | Research Shows Bright Spot for Optical Computing Through Artificial Intelligence
Aydogan Ozcan, Associate Director of the California NanoSystems Institute and Professor at UCLA Samueli School of Engineering, and colleagues have outlined in a Nature article recent advances in artificial intelligence and their impact on visual computing...
November 30, 2020 | See deep inside living organisms with advanced microscope at ALMS
Researchers at UCLA and beyond can conduct 4 of physiological processes within living organisms using a microscope available from the Advanced Light Microscopy and Spectroscopy Laboratory of the California NanoSystems Institute at UCLA. See deep inside...
November 27, 2020 | Researchers find new hydrogel technology has potential to enhance healing process
Millions of chronic wounds do not heal properly each year, costing the health care system billions of dollars annually, he said. Scumpia and a group of researchers developed a new material that could help heal wounds properly to prevent chronic wounds.Researchers find...
November 20, 2020 | UCLA researchers study link between genetics and reaction to COVID-19
UCLA researchers are comparing the genes of COVID-19 patients to see if there is a pattern between a person’s genetics and their susceptibility to COVID-19. In particular, they are looking at common differences in gene sequences that are shared between people with...
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