What is the University of California, Irvine Center for Neurotherapeutics?
The University of California, Irvine Center for Neurotherapeutics is a new Center formed through the support of the Vice Chancellor for Research and five different schools: Medicine, Pharmaceutical Sciences, Biosciences, Engineering, and Physical Sciences. The UCI Center for Neurotherapeutics brings together researchers from the fields of biomedicine and the physical sciences and engineering in order to facilitate the integration of physical science expertise into ongoing efforts in translational neuroscience and neurotherapeutics, with the ultimate goal of fostering drug development.
Challenges to Drug Development in the 21st Century: Barriers to Success and Bottlenecks
Despite incredible progress in mapping the human brain and coming up with cutting edge techniques for studying its function, most basic researchers are NOT comfortable with the paradigms and approaches required for going from high priority targets to drug therapies. The goal of the UCI Center for Neurotherapeutics is to empower UCI faculty to successfully pursue more sophisticated translational neuroscience research, which will ultimately lead to novel drugs that will form the basis for new therapeutic opportunities in the neurological disease field. The UCI Center for Neurotherapeutics will promote neurological disease drug discovery by creating a Drug Discovery Unit and a CNS Delivery Program.
