University of California, Los Angeles

THE UNIVERSITY OF California, Los Angeles (UCLA), is a state (public) research university located in Los Angeles, California. UCLA has the largest enrollment of any university in the state. In 2005, UCLA announced its plan to establish the Institute for Stem Cell Biology and Medicine (ISCBM). The state of California provides public funding of research with new embryonic stem cell lines, and in this regard it is unique. The Eli and Edythe Broad Center of Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Research at UCLA was initiated by Chancellor Albert Carnesale and the deans of the UCLA schools and college in March 2005. UCLA committed over $20 million over five years. UCLA and its sister University of California schools, Berkeley, Davis, San Diego, and San Francisco, have made great advances in stem cell research, largely because of California's avid state—support of stem cell research.

UCLA realizes the importance of the interdis—ciplinarity of its faculty members and institutions and emphasizes a close, ongoing collaboration of the university's scientific, medical, and academic disciplines. UCLA collaborators include the AIDS Institute, UCLA Center for Society and Genetics, Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center, Brain Research Institute, California NanoSys—tems Institute, College of Letters and Sciences, and schools of engineering, dentistry, medicine, law, nursing, and public affairs.

UCLA publications make this interdisciplinary and intercollegiate effort much easier; UCLA news, college reports, journals of clinical investigations, UCLA Magazine, UCLA Medicine, and the Associated Press have all reported on advancements in stem cell research at UCLA.