The ICTS leadership structure continues the ongoing process of transforming existing research and training activities at UC Irvine into a recognizable, integrated, and flexible home for clinical translational science across the campus and throughout the community. Our principal goal is to ensure that new and existing resources in clinical and translational science are effectively and rapidly matched with the creative energy of UC Irvine basic scientists, clinical investigators, and community partners to improve medical care and public health and to train the next generation of clinical researchers. The ICTS will facilitate the goals of the faculty and of the institution, and pull together all the components of translational research.

UCI ICTS strives to carry out the NIH objectives which include:

• provide opportunities and resources for original research on novel methods and approaches to translational and clinical science
  
  
• provide the translational technologies and knowledge base for the spectrum of clinical and translational science, including all types and sizes of studies and clinical disciplines