A UCSD cen­ter that's been fa­cil­i­tat­ing Covid-19 clin­i­cal re­search gets $55M from NIH to boost trans­la­tion­al work

A team at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Cal­i­for­nia San Diego that’s been fa­cil­i­tat­ing stud­ies on the front­lines of Covid-19 has re­ceived a $54.7 mil­lion grant from the NIH to bind ba­sic re­search with clin­i­cal care even more tight­ly to­geth­er.

Every year the 1,000 fac­ul­ty and staff at the Alt­man Clin­i­cal and Trans­la­tion­al Re­search In­sti­tute part­ner with UCSD Health to help run 250 tri­als — in­clud­ing re­cent tri­als in­ves­ti­gat­ing “an an­tivi­ral drug, an arthri­tis drug and a med­ica­tion for hy­per­ten­sion” as treat­ments for the coro­n­avirus in­fec­tion.

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