A Great Fit: Cedars-Sinai and Caltech Partner on Medical Research

Cedars-Sinai Health Sciences University and the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have joined forces in a medical research partnership that promises to be greater than the sum of its parts.

“We each contribute important pieces to the research puzzle,” said Jeffrey Golden, MD, executive vice dean of Research and Education at Cedars-Sinai. “Health Sciences University has a robust basic, translational and clinical research enterprise with state-of-the-art infrastructure, while Caltech is renowned for its fundamental research in science and engineering.”

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In addition to co-hosted symposia and shared training opportunities, a pilot grant program encourages collaborative research projects. Each of the five inaugural one-year research grants is shared by a faculty member and team from both institutions.  

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“We are excited for the opportunity these projects provide to address real-world health problems and benefit patients and the greater community, not just confined to our academic communities,” said Golden, who is the Linda and Jim Lippman Distinguished Chair in Academic Medicine at Cedars-Sinai.

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Image above, from left: Julia Greer, PhD, Ruben F. and Donna Mettler Professor of Materials Science, Mechanics and Medical Engineering at Caltech; and Tiffany Perry, MD, Vice Chair, Department of Neurosurgery for Spine and Education at Cedars-Sinai. These investigators were jointly awarded a collaborative research pilot grant to fabricate a novel spinal cervical disc replacement.