September 2016 NUCDF FUNDS TWO NEW UCD CLINICAL RESEARCH SITES at Stanford/Lucile Packard Children's and University of California San Francisco. Both sites will be part of our National Institutes of Health (NIH) Rare Diseases Clinical Research Network Urea Cycle Disorders Consortium (UCDC). The UCDC is an international research network with 14 academic centers in the US, Canada and Europe providing state-of-the-art care and conducting cutting-edge UCD research. The UCDC is a collaborative partnership between the NIH, UCD clinicians, researchers and the National Urea Cycle Disorders Foundation to improve knowledge of UCDs, speed development of new treatments and clinical trials, and train the next generation of researchers.
