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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
March 24, 2021 | UCLA Researchers Develop New, Noninvasive AI Method to Inspect Live Cells and Gain Critical Data
UCLA researchers have developed a new, AI-based algorithm that determines the properties of live biological cells, keeping them intact in the process. UCLA Researchers Develop New, Noninvasive AI Method to Inspect Live Cells and Gain...
March 23, 2021 | Deactivating cancer cell gene boosts immunotherapy for head and neck cancers
By targeting an enzyme that plays a key role in head and neck cancer cells, researchers from the UCLA School of Dentistry were able to significantly slow the growth and spread of tumors in mice and enhance the effectiveness of an immunotherapy to which these types of...
March 15, 2021 | California NanoSystems Institute Noble Family Innovation Fund Seed Funding Program – Letter of Intent Solicitation
The California NanoSystems Institute at UCLA (CNSI) has recently received a philanthropic commitment of $10 million over three years to establish the Noble Family Innovation Fund. The Noble Fund will focus on identifying, supporting and accelerating high‐risk,...
February 23, 2021 | COVID-19 patient registry increases plasma donations, aids in research studies
A UCLA registry is facilitating blood plasma donations from recovered COVID-19 patients and helping to guide COVID-19 research. COVID-19 patient registry increases plasma donations, aids in research studies by Madison Pfau and Maddie...
February 8, 2021 | Researchers create low-cost, AI-powered device to measure optical spectra
A team of researchers at the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering has demonstrated a new approach to an old problem: measuring spectra of light, also known as spectroscopy. Researchers create low-cost, AI-powered device to measure optical...
January 22, 2021 | Autofocusing of microscopy images using deep learning
UCLA researchers have created a new image autofocusing technique to digitally bring a given microscopy image into focus without the use of a special microscope hardware or equipment during the image acquisition phase. Autofocusing of...
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...
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