About

The Lundquist Institute for Biomedical Innovation is a 501(c)3 independent non-profit biomedical research organization that was founded in 1952. The Institute has over more than 120 principal investigators and 400 researchers in total — MD’s, MD/PhD’s, and PhD’s — working on 600 research studies. Our investigators are academically affiliated with UCLA and work in partnership with the Harbor-UCLA Medical Center. Our research is funded by many sources including: grants from the NIH and other government entities, Industry and teaching contracts and royalties, as well as private donors and other non-profit foundations.

BY THE NUMBERS

• 100+ internationally recognized research groups
• 600 ongoing research projects
• 150 grants from federal sources (NIH and DoD) support our researchers
• 500+ peer-reviewed articles in prestigious medical and scientific journals annually
• 200 patents and 15 new filings annually
• 14 companies spun off in the past 12 years to bring The Lundquist Institute discoveries to the bedside

JUST THE FACTS

• The Lundquist Institute is one of the foremost independent, non-profit research institutes in the U.S.
• You have likely benefited at some point in your life from innovations by The Lundquist Institute.
• We developed the training for (and coined the term) "Paramedics"
• The profession of Nurse Practitioner had its beginning on our campus
• We have generated new paradigms, diagnostics, therapies, and devices, in use all over the world.
• We take on the challenge of devising treatments for debilitating and fatal rare inherited diseases.