Catalyst Awardees
UCLA CTSI awards investigators grants of up to $5,000 to support team-building activities that advance translational science and promote collaborations across disciplines and CTSI institutions.
View all previously funded Catalyst awardees and their funded projects below.
2023 Awardees
Cycle 1
UCLA
Project Title: "Developing a UCLA/CDU Nursing Research Collaborative"
UCLA
Project Title: "2023 Joint UCLA SCORE Symposium on Sex Differences"
Cedars-Sinai
Project Title: "ImmunologyLA 2023"
UCLA
Project Title: "Gene Therapy Mini Symposium"
UCLA
Project Title: "CSMC RMI High School Outreach Program 2023-2024"
2022 Awardees
Cycle 3
Charles R. Drew
Project Title: "DHS Diabetes Day"
UCLA
Project Title: "CTSI-sponsored Undergraduate Research Center-Sciences Activities"
Cedars-Sinai
Project Title: " 2023 Cedars-Sinai Virtual Medicine Conference (vMed23)"
UCLA
Project Title: "The 10th Annual Children’s Discovery and Innovation Institute (CDI) Symposium: The Science of Cannabis Across the Developmental Spectrum: From Intrauterine to Young Adult"
Cycle 2
UCLA
Project Title: "Support for the UCLA Bioinformatics-Human Genetics Seminar Series"
UCLA
Project Title: "Promoting Multidisciplinary Analysis of Radiology-Pathology Data: The Integrated Diagnostics Program"
UCLA
Project Title: "Cell Symposium 2022: Advances in Therapeutic Applications of Stem Cells"
UCLA
Project Title: "UCLA 11th Annual Medtech Partnering Conference"
Cedars-Sinai
Project Title: "The role of weight stigma on weight loss and attrition after bariatric surgery"
Cycle 1
UCLA
Project Title: "Joint SCORE Symposium on Sex Differences in Brain-Gut Disorders and Metabolism"
UCLA
Project Title: "4th Annual Prostate Cancer Research Symposium"
Lundquist/Harbor-UCLA
Project Title: "Catalyzing Peer Mentorship and Patient Navigation for Spanish-speakers with Kidney Disease"
2021 Awardees
Cycle 2
UCLA
Project Title: "Growing the next generation of Surgeon-Scientists through the NIH T32 Program"
UCLA
Project Title: "UC-NL ATTACK Antiviral Drug Discovery Conference"
UCLA
Project Title: "CTSI-sponsored Undergraduate Research Center-Sciences Activities"
UCLA
Project Title: "9th Annual Children's Discovery and Innovation Institute (CDI) Symposium: The Science of Gender"
UCLA
Project Title: "10th Annual MedTech Partnering Conference"
Cycle 1
Project Title: "8th Annual DHS Diabetes Day"
Project Title: "CSMC RMI High School Outreach Program 2021-2022"
Project Title: "Community engagement to bring culturally appropriate integrative health programs to serve the ethnic Chinese patients in the Los Angeles County"
Project Title: "Virtual International Womens Sc'ience Day Panel: Learning from our mistakes: Struggles of international women-scientists pursuing an academic career in translational research."
2020 Awardees
Cycle 2
Project Title: "CTSI-sponsored Undergraduate Research Center - Sciences Activities"
Project Title: "Joint Score Symposium - Sex Differences in Brain-Gut Disorders and Metabolism"
Project Title: "CDI Symposium 2021"
Project Title: "9th Annual UCLA MedTech Partnering Conference"
Cycle 1
Project Title: "6th Annual DHS Diabetes Day"
2019 Awardees
Cycle 3
Project Title: "Interdisciplinary Forums to Address the Implications of Racial Violence and Racial Stress on Health and Wellbeing"
Project Title: "CTSI-sponsored Undergraduate Research Center - Sciences Activities"
Project Title: "7th Annual Children’s Discovery Institute Symposium"
Project Title: "UCLA Value-Based Care Research Consortium Symposium"
Project Title: "2nd Annual Los Angeles Postdoctoral Research Symposium"
Project Title: "8th Annual MedTech Partnering Conference"
Cycle 2
Project Title: "BCLA Annual Biotech Summit 2019 - Mapping out LA's biotech landscape"
Project Title: "Park Rx Los Angeles County Summit"
Project Title: "6th Annual DHS Diabetes Day"
Project Title: "The UCLA Children’s Discovery and Innovation Institute (CDI) Scientific Seminar Series: Promoting Team Science Collaborations in Translational Child Health Research"
Project Title: "UCLA Mitochondria Symposium"
Project Title: "VIP/PACAP and Related Peptides International Symposium: 30 years after PACAP Discovery."
Project Title: "Los Angeles BioMedical Research Institute"
Cycle 1
Project Title: "Support for the UCLA Bioinformatics Seminar Series"
Project Title: "CSMC RMI High School Outreach Program"
Project Title: "immunologyLA 2019"
Project Title: "Network and Mentoring with RCMAR CHIME"
Project Title: "Inaugural Los Angeles Postdoctoral Research Symposium"
2018 Awardees
Cycle 3
Project Title: "Communities for Wellness (C4WE)"
Project Title: "Catalyzing lung research in Los Angeles with the LA Lung Day Symposium"
Project Title: "CTSI-sponsored Undergraduate Research Center – Sciences Activities"
Project Title: "Micro and Nanotechnologies for Medicine: Emerging Frontiers and Applications Symposium 2019"
Project Title: "NSF Engineering Research Center for Convergent Mechano-Therapeutics and ImmunoEngineering (CMTIE)"
Project Title: "The 6th Annual Children’s Discovery and Innovation Institute (CDI) Symposium: Novel Therapeutics"
Project Title: "Interdisciplinary Research Ethics Symposium: The Emerging Field of Neuroethics"
Project Title: "7th Annual UCLA MedTech Partnering Conference"
Project Title: "UCLA School of Nursing Annual Research Days: Catalyzing Multidisciplinary Research Collaboration"
Cycle 2
Project Title: "BCLA Biotech Summit 2018 - Healthcare Innovations from Local to Global"
Project Title: "Symposium on Cellular Therapies: Engineering the Future (at Geffen Hall)"
Project Title: "DHS Diabetes Day"
Project Title: "The 3rd Cardiovascular Symposium"
Project Title: "2nd UCLA Mitochondria Symposium"
Project Title: "Harnessing Physical Forces for Medical Application"
Cycle 1
Project Title: "Mechanobiology Training Grant at UCLA"
Project Title: "Support for the UCLA Bioinformatics Seminar Series"
Project Title: "immunologyLA"
2017 Awardees
Cycle 3
Project Title: "Engaging Local Academics and Community Members to Explore Adolescent Emotional Well-Being"
Project Title: "CTSI-sponsored Undergraduate Research Center – Sciences Activities"
Project Title: "UCLA-UCSD Diabetes Research Center Retreat and Junior Faculty Workshop"
Project Title: "Workshop on Micro and NanoTechnologies for Medicine"
Project Title: "UCLA CDI 5th Annual Symposium"
Project Title: "6th Annual UCLA MedTech Partnering Conference"
Cycle 2
Project Title: "American Association for the History of Medicine Meeting"
Project Title: "UCLA CTSI Catalyst funding for Drug Abuse Research Day and Diabetes Day"
Project Title: "UCLA Mitochondria Symposium"
Project Title: "Mobile Experience Conference - creating novel research workflows with mobile and immersive technologies"
Project Title: "UCLA Value-Based Care Research Consortium Kickoff Symposium"
Project Title: "2017 UCLA mHealth Training Institute"
Project Title: "Annual UCLA Cardiovascular Symposium"
Project Title: "Support for the UCLA Bioinformatics Seminar Series"
Cycle 1
Project Title: "Biotech Entrepreneurship Summit 2017: The Conscious Entrepreneur"
Project Title: "Collaborative Seminar Series to Advance Training in Interdisciplinary Regenerative Medicine"
Project Title: "Support for Meetings of the Molecular Toxicology Program"
Project Title: "18th Annual UC System-Wide Bioengineering Symposium at UCLA: Translating Discovery into Health Technologies "
Project Title: "immunologyLA 2017"
Project Title: "RCMAR Annual Investigators Meeting and RCMAR & CTSI Scientific Retreat"
Project Title: "2018 Regenerative Medicine High School Outreach Program"
2016 Awardees
Cycle 3
Project Title: "UC Drug Discovery Symposium"
Project Title: "15th Annual CNSR Symposium, Bringing the Brain Back into Medicine: Focus on Obesity, Microbiome, and Women's Health"
Project Title: "Manufacturing Cell and Gene Therapies - A Workshop"
Project Title: "Death By Neurological Criteria Educational Symposium"
Project Title: "RCMAR Annual Investigators Meeting and RCMAR & CTSI Scientific Retreat"
Project Title: "Symposium on Adolescent and Young Adult Oncology: The Next Generation of Care"
Project Title: "2017 Annual University of California PRIME Statewide Conference"
Project Title: "5th Annual Medical Device Partnering Conference"
Cycle 2
Project Title: "DHS Diabetes Day"
Project Title: "7th Congress of the International Biolron Society, LA"
Project Title: "Research Poster Day and Undergraduate Research Week"
Project Title: "Neuroscience and Society"
Project Title: "CDI Scientifc Seminar Series: Promoting Team Science Collaborations in Translational Child Health Research"
Project Title: "Support for the UCLA Bioinformatics Seminar Series"
Cycle 1
Project Title: "Biotech Connection Los Angeles (BCLA) Entrepreneurship Summit 2016"
Project Title: "Computational Genomics Summer Institute"
Project Title: "California Initiative to Advance Precision Medicine: A convening to promote collaborators throughout the state"
Project Title: "RCMAR CHIME & Project EXPORT & CTSI Scientific Retreats"
Project Title: "Board of Governor’s (BOG) Regenerative Medicine Institute (RMI) High School Outreach Program"
Project Title: "15th Annual UCLA Health Research and Evidence-Based Practice Conference"
Project Title: "3rd Annual Prostate Cancer Research Symposium"
2015 Awardees
Cycle 3
Project Title: "The Women’s Health and Gender Differences Research multidisciplinary planning symposium"
Project Title: "The RECOMB 20th Annual International Conference on Research Computation Molecular Biology"
Project Title: "The 3nd Annual Children’s Discovery and Innovation Institute (CDI) Symposium: Generating cross-campus collaborations to advance translational child health research"
Project Title: "Support for Meetings of the UCLA Molecular Toxicology Program"
Project Title: "UCLA Global Collaboration Network of Transnational Research in Hansen's Disease"
Project Title: "The 4th Annual UCLA Medical Device Partnering Conference "
Cycle 2
Project Title: "Multidisciplinary Musculoskeletal Research Seminar Series and Journal Club"
Project Title: "UCLA Undergraduate Initiatives: CTSI Sponsored PEERS Research Talk, Research Poster Day & Undergraduate Science Journal"
Project Title: "UCLA Women’s Health and Gender Medicine Research Institute Symposia"
Project Title: "Open Mind Community Lecture: Panel with Dr. Leuchter & Dr. Stephen Hinshaw, and Lecture on the Stigma of Mental Illness"
Cycle 1
Project Title: "UCLA/USC/USCF Craniofacial Biology and Translational Medicine Retreat"
Project Title: "Drug Abuse Research Day"
Project Title: "immunologyLA"
Project Title: "RCMAR CHIME & Project EXPORT & UCLA CTSI 2015 Scientific Retreats"
Project Title: "The RMI High School Outreach Program"
Project Title: "2nd Annual Prostate Cancer Research Symposium- Precision Medicine in Prostate Cancer Research"
Project Title: "2015 mHealth Training Institute at UCLA"
Project Title: "The UCLA Children's and Innovation Institute (CDI) Scientific Seminar Series: Promoting Team Science Collaborations in Translational Child Health Research"
Project Title: "Entrepreneurship Summit – Challenges and Opportunities for Biotech Startups in Los Angeles"
Project Title: "UC Tele-Health Transplant Education Center"
2014 Awardees
Cycle 3
Project Title: "Effective Collaboration and Diversity in Scientific Teams"
Project Title: "UCLA Global Collaboration Network of Translational Research in Hansen’s Disease"
Project Title: "RCMAR CHIME Annual Investigators Meeting at UC Davis"
Project Title: "Scientific Symposium on Cellular Therapies: Recruiting and Enabling Cells to Fight Infections and Cancer"
Cycle 2
Project Title: "Symposium on Cancer Metabolism"
Project Title: "Advancing Bioengineering Innovations"
Project Title: "Drug Abuse Research Day and Diabetes Day"
Project Title: "Support for Meetings of the UCLA Molecular Toxicology Program"
Project Title: "UCLA Undergraduate Initiatives: CTSI Sponsored PEERS Research Talk, Research Poster Day & Undergraduate Science Journal"
Project Title: "LA BioMed/Harbor-UCLA South Bay Community Counsel"
Project Title: "Medical Innovation Challenge (Inventathon 2014)"
Project Title: "2015 CURE Annual Meeting"
Project Title: "The 2nd Annual Children's Discovery and Innovation Institute (CDI) Symposium: Catalyzing and Expanding Interdisciplinary Collaborations in Translational Child Health Research"
Cycle 1
Project Title: "Open Mind Community Lecture: Bipolar Disorder"
Project Title: "immunologyLA 2014 (iLA)"
Project Title: "UCLA/CDU RCMAR CHIME & Project Export and UCLA CTSI Scientific Retreat"
Project Title: "Specialized Program of Research Excellence (SPORE) in Prostate Cancer External Advisory Board Meeting"
2013 Awardees
Cycle 3
UCLA
Project Title: "UCLA BD2K (Big Data to Knowledge) Workshop"
UCLA
Project Title: "Addiction, An Open Mind Community Lecture"
UCLA
Project Title: "Society of Postdoctoral Scholars Research Seminar Series"
Cedars-Sinai
Project Title: "CSMC-UCLA Research Team for Non-Invasive IC Biomarker Development"
UCLA
Project Title: "UCLA Exercise and Cognition Research Program Symposium"
UCLA
Project Title: "Pediatrics, Surgery & Anthropology in Brazil Symposium"
Cycle 2
UCLA
Project Title: "UCLA/USC/USCF Craniofacial Biology and Translational Medicine Retreat"
UCLA
Project Title: "BSC-CTSI Medical Innovation Challenge (Inventathon)"
UCLA
Project Title: "The First Annual Children's Discovery and Innovation Symposium"
UCLA
Project Title: "UCLA Molecular Toxicology Program"
UCLA
Project Title: "CTSI-sponsored Undergraduate Research Center-Sciences Activities"
UCLA
Project Title: "7th Annual Stem Cells 2.0 Meeting"
UCLA
Project Title: "GUARDIAN Consortium Retreat"
UCLA
Project Title: "mHealth Training Institute @ UCLA (mHTI@UCLA)"
Cycle 1
UCLA
Project Title: "Community Symposium on Stroke Disparities"
Cedars-Sinai
Project Title: "Furthering Collaborative Relationships among Researchers, Clinicians, and Patients at CSMC and UCLA"
UCLA
Project Title: "2013 Western Region Islet Study Group Conference"
UCLA
Project Title: "2013 UCLA RCMAR CHIME/Project EXPORT Triannual Scientific Retreat"
UCLA
Project Title: "Identifying Strategies to Optimally Address the Obesity Epidemic in Los Angeles County"
UCLA
Project Title: "UCLA Center for Neurobionics and Neuromodulation"
UCLA
Project Title: "Developing Interdisciplinary Science Teams on Systems-level Inflammatory Processes"
UCLA
Project Title: "UCLA-USC-Caltech Symposium - Nanotechnology Innovations in Cancer, Regenerative Medicine and Infectious Diseases"