UConn Health

UConn Health is a public academic health sciences center in Farmington, Connecticut, integrating professional education, patient care, and biomedical research through a teaching hospital and clinical practice network. Its clinical environment provides companies with access to clinicians, patient populations, and real-world care settings for translational studies and evaluation. The Office of Clinical and Translational Research supports sponsor engagement through trial budgeting, contract negotiation, financial compliance, and operational coordination for industry-sponsored studies. Research administration also includes core facilities, sponsored programs, human-subjects oversight, clinical-trial management, and cross-campus collaboration. Research is supported primarily by competitive federal funding, especially from NIH, with additional support from NSF, other agencies, foundations, and industry. Technology commercialization and venture-development functions support intellectual property, licensing, material transfers, and startup formation.