About C-TREAT
The UCSD DDRDC will locally known by the acronym C-TREAT, which stands for
Center for Tissue Repair, Epithelial Biology and Inflammation, And Transformation.
The Center promotes and supports innovative research in the San Diego area to understand the basis of gastrointestinal diseases and find new prevention and treatment strategies. Through provision of common services and unique expertise, the Center helps to initiate new research efforts and strengthen and expand existing ones. These efforts are critical for growing and maintaining a strong investigator base in San Diego and making novel contributions in combating gastrointestinal diseases.
The University of California, San Diego (UCSD)
San Diego is a unique research environment, being well endowed with institutions with vigorous biomedical and biological research programs, largely influenced by UCSD, but in addition the area continues to provide collaborative opportunities for growth and changes that occur in the biomedical community. In addition to the extensive faculty and research opportunities at UCSD, the VA Medical Center in San Diego (SDVAMC), the Salk Institute, the La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology (LIAI), the Burnham Institute, and Scripps Clinic and Research Foundation have provided an enormous breadth and depth in cell and molecular biology, matched by few other research centers in the country.
The UCSD School of Medicine (SOM) is only 39 years old (opened in 1968), but has become one of the nation's outstanding medical schools as judged by the reputation of its faculty, research achievements, and its level of extramural funding. The SOM has a highly successful Howard Hughes Research Institute for cell and molecular biology, one of the two Ludwig Cancer Institutes in the U.S., and one of the few National Science Foundation supercomputing centers. At the Medical School quadrangle, there are Molecular Genetics, Cellular and Molecular Medicine buildings, the recently constructed Leichtag Family Foundation Research Building, the Medical Teaching Facility, the Basic Science Building, and an adjacent Clinical Research building. A new building for animal imaging and functional magnetic resonance imaging studies has been recently constructed. Additionally, the Biomedical Library re-opened in August 2006, after a two-year long extensive renovation that incorporates the latest in computer and telecommunication technologies. The new Rebecca and John Moores Comprehensive Cancer Center recently completed near the Thornton Hospital on the UCSD campus which contains clinical and extensive research laboratory facilities. The recently christened UCSD Science Park near the new Moores Comprehensive Cancer Center now houses the newly constructed LIAI building (opened July 2006), an effort by UCSD to place research-intensive entities at UCSD's La Jolla medical campus.
UCSD Division of Gastroenterology
The Department of Medicine (DOM) at UCSD is one of the nation's finest, based on the quality and number of its full-time faculty, research accomplishments, and the magnitude of grant support (UCSD ranks among the top five DOMs in the United States in terms of sponsored research grant funding). The DOM is uniquely strong in its basic sciences as compared to many other departments, considering the UCSD medical school was formed at its initiation without the traditional basic science departments (to foster interactions between MDs and PhDs). Thus, each Division within the DOM contains a number of nationally and internationally distinguished basic scientists. The DOM has also played a major role in the development of the Moores Comprehensive Cancer Center and the Center for Aging, both of which is growing and has vigorous research programs.
