University of California San Diego Health centre that treats patients inside regulated cell and gene therapy clinical trials, not through paid private procedures.
The Sanford Stem Cell Clinical Center is part of UC San Diego Health, the academic medical centre of the University of California, San Diego. It houses the UC San Diego Alpha Clinic, one of nine Alpha Clinics funded by the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM), the state agency created in 2004 to support stem cell research.
This is not a private clinic selling procedures. It treats patients as participants in clinical trials of cell therapy, gene therapy and other regenerative medicine treatments, both as inpatients and as outpatients. Access is therefore through trial eligibility rather than by booking an appointment, and patients need to meet the entry criteria of a specific study.
The centre also houses the Strategic Advisory Research Team, known as START, which supports researchers through the preclinical stage of work leading to first-in-human studies. It is supported by the Division of Regenerative Medicine at the UC San Diego School of Medicine. Named disease areas include spinal cord injury, cancer, inflammatory bowel disease, multiple sclerosis and Parkinson's disease.
These are disease areas studied in trials, not a list of treatments available on request. Eligibility depends on the individual study.
The page describes cell and gene therapy trials in general terms and does not name specific cell sources.
The centre is based in the Koman Family Outpatient Pavilion at UC San Diego Health, 9400 Campus Point Drive, La Jolla, California 92037. Valet parking is available on weekdays from 7am to 5pm and self-parking structures are available. The page does not state the year the centre was established. As part of a university hospital system, it operates under standard academic and regulatory oversight.
No prices are published. Treatment here is delivered within clinical trials rather than sold as a private procedure, so costs are handled differently from a commercial clinic. Ask the study team what, if anything, a participant pays.
Profile compiled from information published on the clinic's own website and from the StemCell Registry directory record. Details may change; confirm directly with the clinic before making decisions.