Strategic Plan Theme: Transformative Partnerships

Goals

7.1 To advance our education, research and clinical missions, establish transformative partnerships with national and international organizations including other academic and health institutions, governmental agencies, non-profit entities, professional organizations, and for-profit companies

  1. Conduct a needs assessment to define and prioritize transformative partnerships

  2. Outline best practices for establishing and executing transformative partnerships

7.2 Facilitate the creation and goals of partnerships with external organizations by streamlining internal policies and processes including processes for contracts, material and data transfer, intellectual property, and student/faculty exchange.

  1. Identify opportunities for improvement in current processes required for the formation of Transformative Partnerships

September 2024 Strategic Plan Retreat

Co-leads Jennifer Cocohoba and Nevan Krogan
Members Andrej Sali, Balyn Zaro
Working definition

A partnership which helps individual departments, ORUs, and the UCSF School of Pharmacy meet their mission and vision.
Accomplishments

  • Needs assessment conducted (12/23):

    • 10 Department of Clinical Pharmacy.

    • 4 Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry.

    • 3 Department of Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences.

  • Informal discussions (ongoing).
Current important partnerships

Faculty individually hold various partnerships that are valuable to their work. In these partnerships they are serving as members, committee members, advocates, advisory board members, collaborators, founders, journal editor, or educational leaders. In some cases the partnerships result in new sources of data for research.

Education:

  • UCSF Academy of Medical Educators
  • ZSFG Division of ID
  • San Francisco State University
  • UCSF School of Medicine
  • UCSF Medical Center
  • UC Berkeley
  • Genentech

Research:

  • ZSFG Division of Experimental Med
  • ZSFG Division of ID
  • Department of Defense
  • FDA
  • ITC
  • Merck
  • Novartis
  • OptumLabs
  • Proteostasis Consortium
  • UCSF Quant Biosciences Consortium

Clinical:

  • UCSF Osher Center
  • UCSF Medical Center
  • UCSF School of Medicine

Other:

  • American Assn Kidney Pts
  • American Chemical Society
  • ChemicalProbes.org
  • CA Society Health Systems Pharmacists
  • Home Dialyzors United
  • University of Bern
  • Incubators
  • Venture Capitalists
Desired future partnerships

Faculty were most interested in fostering new partnerships centered around expanding the educational capability and research capability of the School of Pharmacy. They were hoping that these partnerships would lead to new sources or types of data for research, to improve current research models, for opportunities for new fellowship or internship programs, or new clinical rotations.

Education:

  • 89 Bio
  • CDC
  • FDA
  • Kaiser Permanente
  • News outlets
  • NIH
  • Various industry (biopharma/tech)
  • St. Mary’s/St. Francis
  • SF DPH
  • UCSF SOM
  • UNC/UKY
  • UCSF Doc-IT

Research:

  • Artificial Intelligence Companies
  • Amgen
  • BARD
  • Center for Medicare and Medicaid Svc
  • Various industry (biopharma/tech)
  • UCSF CTSI
  • UCSF Doc-IT
  • Gates Foundation
  • Google (wearables)
  • Intel
  • Kaiser Permanente
  • QB3 startups
  • WHO

Clinical:

  • Astra Zeneca
  • Janssen Pharmaceuticals

Other:

  • Amazon
Other thoughts shared by respondents

  • UCSF needs to be SATURATING the marketplace with our collaborations.

  • We need to have SPARK sessions where creative ideas are shared and business models proposed…our faculty are not trained in creating business models.

  • Protein degradation and covalent drug discovery are strengths of UCSF.

  • Corporate partnerships align with both basic and translational (research).

  • Using fellowship model to connect with pharma in Bay Area to enhance and retain researchers in academia.

  • This model does not really fit my research — tend to connect with other individual researchers or organizations that complement my own research.

  • SOP can’t really be driving partnerships…they are more organic.
Where does this leave us?

  • Broad array of partnerships faculty are interested in reflect diversity of SOP and SOP activities.

  • Interest in research partnerships with bio, pharma, tech for research AND education – synergy.

  • Sentiment that partnerships are built from individual relationships – unclear how SOP as organization creates opportunities for these?

    • Website for partnerships we seek vs. faculty profiles?

    • Template Dean’s letter to help faculty “cold call”?

    • Incubator symposium to catalyze connections?

    • Other ways to actively seek partnerships?

  • Partnership vs. transformative partnership - alter definition to include innovation and novelty?

  • What is role of AI for transformative partnerships – other than partnerships with AI companies and opportunities to streamline processes and procedures for setting up?
Future: individual interviews

  • Explore ideas for facilitating partnerships.

  • Gather experiences creating partnerships for best practices.

  • Understand obstacles experienced in creating transformative partnerships (processes, procedures, policies).
Feedback from participants

Attendees can provide feedback electronically and via the use of sticky notes directly on the poster.

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