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UC SAN DIEGO - ORGANIZED RESEARCH UNITS (2010-2011)

Organized Research Units 

Director

Website
Multi-Campus    
IGCC - Institute on Global Conflict & Cooperation Susan Shirk http://igcc.ucsd.edu /
IGPP - Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics Catherine Constable http://www.igpp.ucsd.edu/index.php
WMRS - White Mountain Research Station Frank Powell http://www.wmrs.edu/
     
General Campus    
BCI - BioCircuits Institute Jeff Hasty http://biocircuits.ucsd.edu/
Calit2 - California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology-UCSD Division Ramesh Rao http://www.calit2.net/ 
    *CISA3 - Center of Interdisciplinary Science for Art, Architecture and Archeology  Maurizio Seracini  
    *CITA - Center for Information Theory and Its Applications Alon Orlitsky  
CASS - Center for Astrophysics & Space Sciences  George Fuller http://casswww.ucsd.edu
CCB - Center for Chronobiology  Susan Golden http://ccb.ucsd.edu/
CCIS - Center for Comparative Immigration Studies  John Skrentny http://www.ccis-ucsd.org/ 
CER - Center for Energy Research  Farrokh Najmabadi http://cer.ucsd.edu/ 
CHD - Center for Human Development  Terry Jernigan http://chd.ucsd.edu/
CILAS - Center for Iberian and Latin American Studies David Mares http://cilas.ucsd.edu/ 
CMRR - Center for Magnetic Recording Research Paul Siegel http://cmrr.ucsd.edu/  
CNS - Center for Networked Systems Amin Vahdat http://cns.ucsd.edu/ 
CRCA - Center for Research in Computing & the Arts Sheldon Brown http://crca.ucsd.edu/ 
CRL - Center for Research in Language Marta Kutas http://crl.ucsd.edu/ 
IICAS - Institute for International, Comparative & Area Studies Gershon Shafir http://iicas.ucsd.edu/
IEM - Institute of Engineering in Medicine Shu Chien http://iem.ucsd.edu/
    *Whitaker Center for Biomedical Engineering John Watson  
    *Center for Medical Devices and Instrumentation (CMDI) Juan Lasheras  
INC - Institute for Neural Computation Terrence Sejnowski/Gert Cauwenberghs http://inc2.ucsd.edu/
KIBM - Kavli Institute for Brain and Mind Jeff Elman/Nick Spitzer http://kibm.ucsd.edu/ 
SDSC - San Diego Supercomputer Center Michael Norman(Interim Director) http://www.sdsc.edu/ 
     
School of Medicine     
ARI - AIDS Research Institute  Douglas Richman http://ari.ucsd.edu 
CARTA - Center for Academic Research and Training in Anthropogeny Ajit Varki/Fred H. Gage/Margaret Schoeninger http://carta.anthropogeny.org/
CTRI - Clinical and Translational Research Institute Gary Firestein http://ctri.ucsd.edu/
CRBS - Center for Research in Biological Systems Mark Ellisman http://crbs.ucsd.edu/ 
GRTC - Glycobiology Research and Training Center Ajit Varki/Jeffrey Esko http://grtc.ucsd.edu/
IGM - Institute for Genomic Medicine Kang Zhang http://igm.ucsd.edu/
IMM - Institute for Moleular Medicine    
Rebecca & John Moores UCSD Cancer Center Dennis Carson http://cancer.ucsd.edu/
SIRA - Stein Institute for Research on Aging Dilip Jeste http://sira.ucsd.edu
     
Scripps Institution of Oceanography     
Climate, Atmospheric Science, and Physical Oceanography (CASPO) Research Division Art Miller http://pord.ucsd.edu/ 
Center for Marine Biotechnology and Biomedicine  William Fenical http://cmbb.ucsd.edu/
Geosciences Research Division  Jeffrey Gee http://grd.ucsd.edu/
Integrative Oceanography Division  Peter Franks http://iod.ucsd.edu/
Marine Biology Research Division  Ron Burton http://mbrd.ucsd.edu/
Marine Physical Laboratory  William Kuperman http://www-mpl.ucsd.edu/
     

Non-ORU Centers

    
     
School of Medicine     
Alzheimer's Disease Research Center  Douglas Galasko http://adrc.ucsd.edu/
Academic Geriatric Resource Center Ruth Covell http://meded.ucsd.edu/agrc/ 
Biostatistics and Bioinformatics Gustavo Jimenez http://bbl.ucsd.edu/doku.php
California NeuroAIDS Tissue Network Igor Grant http://www.cntn.ucsd.edu/
Center for AIDS Research  Douglas Richman http://cfar.ucsd.edu/
CPM - Center for Pain and Palliative Medicine    http://anes-cppm.ucsd.edu/
Center for Community Health, Division of Community Pediatrics   http://www.sdhealth.org/cch_CommPds.html
Center for Neural Circuits and Behavior Anirvan Ghosh http://cncb.ucsd.edu/
General Clinical Research Center  Michael Ziegler http://gcrc.ucsd.edu/index.asp
HIV Neurobehavioral Research Center  Igor Grant  http://www.hnrc.ucsd.edu/
Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, San Diego Branch  Webster Cavenee http://sandiego.licr.org/
BIOGEM - Biomedical Genomics Micoarray Gary Hardiman http://microarrays.ucsd.edu/

TMARC - Translational Methamphetamine AIDS Research Center

Igor Grant

 http://tmarc.hivresearch.ucsd.edu/
   
Scripps Institution of Oceanography  
Center for Marine Biodiversity and Conservation  Lisa Levin http://cmbc.ucsd.edu/ 
Center for Marine Genomics  Terry Gaasterland http://www.genomes.ucsd.edu/ 
Cooperative Institute for Marine Ecosystems and Climate  David Checkley http://cimec.ucsd.edu/
Center for Observations, Modeling and Prediction at Scripps  Bruce Cornuelle http://www.compas.ucsd.edu/ 
   
Biological Sciences  
SD-CAB - San Diego Center for Algal Biotechnology Steve Mayfield http://algae.ucsd.edu/
   
Engineering  
Bernard and Sophia Gordon Engineering Leadership Center Ingolf Krueger  
CASB - Center for Algorithmic and Systems Biology  Pavel Pevzner http://casb.ucsd.edu/
CWC - The Centerfor Wireless Communications  Bhaskar Rao  http://www-cwc.ucsd.edu/webdir/index.php
Charles Lee Powell Structural Research Laboratories Gil Hegemier http://structures.ucsd.edu/?page=research/labs/index
Cymer Center for Control Systems and Dynamics   http://ccsd.ucsd.edu/
Information Theory and Applications Center   http://ita.ucsd.edu/
Von Liebig Center for Entrepreneurism and Technology Advancement Rosibel Ochoa  
   
International Relations and Pacific Studies  
CUSMS - Center for U.S. Mexican Studies Christopher Woodruff http://usmex.ucsd.edu
CPE - Center on Pacific Economies Gordon Hanson http://cpe.ucsd.edu/ 
Global Information Industry Center Roger Bohn http://giic.ucsd.edu/ 
   
Physical Sciences  
Center for NMR Spectroscopy and Imaging of Proteins    http://nmr.ucsd.edu/
CTBP - Center for Theoretical Biological Physics Herbert Levine/Jose Onuchic http://ctbp.ucsd.edu/
LMS - Laboratory for Mathematics and Statistics    
Center for Computational Mathematics   http://ccom.ucsd.edu/
     
Social Sciences    
AAASRC - African and African-American Studies Research Center Bennetta Jules-Rosette  
CBC - Center for Brain and Cognition Vilayanur S. Ramachandran http://cbc.ucsd.edu/
CEE - Center for Environmental Economics Ted Groves  
Center for the Study of African Political Economy (CSAPE) Clark Gibson http://polisci.ucsd.edu/
CREATE - Center for Research on Educational Equity, Assessment, and Teaching Excellence Hugh Mehan http://create.ucsd.edu/ 


CRGP - Center for Research on Gender in the Professions

 Mary Blair-Loy
 http://crgp.ucsd.edu/  
LCHC - Laboratory of Comparative Human Cognition Michael Cole http://lchc.ucsd.edu/
San Diego Education Research Alliance at UCSD (SanDERA at UCSD) Julian Betts http://economics.ucsd.edu/

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