UCSF Bakar Computational Health Sciences Institute

What UCSF Bakar Computational Health Sciences Institute does

The UCSF Bakar Computational Health Sciences Institute is an internal non-profit research unit of the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), focused on advancing computational health sciences through research, infrastructure, and education. UCSF itself was established in 1873 as the University of California's first medical school and is governed by The Regents of the University of California; it now comprises four schools (Medicine, Nursing, Pharmacy, Dentistry), operates more than 20 locations across the San Francisco Bay Area, and runs extensive patient-care operations through UCSF Health, the UCSF Benioff Children's Hospitals, the UCSF Dental Center, and Langley Porter Psychiatric Hospital and Clinics.

The institute's "Bakar" naming convention indicates an endowed research unit, implying donor-supported infrastructure and faculty, though no specific endowment details are disclosed. Its core activity — applying computational methods to health — is supported by access to UCSF's clinical and translational data assets, its neuroscience and other research programs, and institutional research administration via the UCSF Office of Research, Postdoctoral Scholars program, and Innovation Ventures (the dedicated channel for inventions, IP licensing, and entrepreneurship from UCSF research).

As an academic, non-commercial entity, the institute does not operate a revenue-generating product, pricing model, or paid customer base. Funding flows through the University of California system and likely through a combination of university resources, extramural research grants, and philanthropic/endowment support. No standalone revenue, headcount, customer, product, or pricing data is publicly available for the institute; the absence of these signals is consistent with its role as a non-profit internal research unit rather than a commercial venture.

Name

UCSF Bakar Computational Health Sciences Institute

Legal name

The Regents of the University of California

Website

https://ucsf.edu

Company type

Public

Founded year

1873

Operating status

Operating

Short description

UCSF Bakar Computational Health Sciences Institute is an endowed, non-profit research unit within UC San Francisco that advances computational methods in health through research, infrastructure, and education, drawing on UCSF's clinical data and academic medical center footprint.

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Product category

Computational Health Sciences Research

NAICS

Research and Development in Biotechnology (except Nanobiotechnology) (541714), Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences (54171), Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools (6113)

SIC

Services-Commercial Physical & Biological Research (8731)

akta.pro primary industry

Biomedical Sciences & Medical Research Institutes (University-Based) (EDAHAGAI)

akta.pro secondary industry

Public Research Universities with Academic Medical Centers (AMCs) (EDAHAAAC)

Keywords

• Computational health sciences
• Biomedical informatics
• Clinical data analytics
• Health sciences research
• Research computing infrastructure

Headquarters

HQ city

San Francisco

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Infrastructure, Operations

Core offering

The UCSF Bakar Computational Health Sciences Institute advances computational health sciences by conducting interdisciplinary research, providing computational infrastructure and data resources to UCSF investigators, and offering educational programs in biomedical informatics. It operates as an internal research unit within UCSF, supporting faculty, trainees, and clinicians across UCSF's four health science schools.

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Functional benefit

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed Yes

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Direct peers

• Vanderbilt Department of Biomedical Informatics: Vanderbilt's Department of Biomedical Informatics is one of the oldest and most established biomedical informatics units in the US, with strong emphasis on computational infrastructure (e.g., BioVU biobank, synthetic derivatives) — a direct parallel to UCSF Bakar's infrastructure-focused mandate.
• Stanford Center for Biomedical Informatics Research (BMIR): Stanford BMIR is a university-based biomedical informatics research center within Stanford School of Medicine, focused on computational methods for biomedical data. It is the closest direct peer to UCSF Bakar, sharing the academic medical center setting, Bay Area location, and emphasis on translational computational health.
• University of Pennsylvania Institute for Biomedical Informatics: Penn's Institute for Biomedical Informatics (IBI) is an academic medical center-based institute conducting computational genomics and biomedical informatics research. It shares the research-infrastructure-education mandate and academic medical center affiliation that defines UCSF Bakar's role.
• Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai - Institute for Genomic Health: Mount Sinai's Institute for Genomic Health and related entities conduct computational health sciences research within an academic medical center. It is comparable to UCSF Bakar in mission (computational health research and infrastructure) and operates in a similar urban academic medical center context.
• Columbia University Department of Biomedical Informatics: Columbia DBMI is an academic medical center-based biomedical informatics department conducting computational health research and training graduate students. Its mission, scope, and delivery model closely align with UCSF Bakar's research-infrastructure-education triad.
• Johns Hopkins Division of Health Sciences Informatics: Johns Hopkins operates a leading health/biomedical informatics program within its Schools of Medicine and Public Health, with comparable emphasis on translational computational health research and graduate training. It is a direct peer in terms of institutional scale and academic positioning.
• Harvard Department of Biomedical Informatics: Harvard Medical School's Department of Biomedical Informatics conducts computational health sciences research and education within an elite academic medical center. It is directly comparable to UCSF Bakar in scope (research, education, infrastructure) and target audience (faculty, students, clinical collaborators).

Emerging players

• Sage Bionetworks: Sage Bionetworks is a non-profit biomedical research organization focused on computational genomics and open-science data infrastructure. It is comparable to UCSF Bakar in non-profit status, computational health research mandate, and emphasis on shared research infrastructure, though it operates outside a university medical center.
• Allen Institute for AI (AI2): AI2 is a non-profit research institute focused on AI for the common good, with health-adjacent research programs. While not a biomedical informatics department per se, it is an emerging non-academic research institute operating in the AI-health intersection, sharing non-profit status and research infrastructure orientation with UCSF Bakar.

Broad incumbents

• MIT CSAIL (Computational Health focus): MIT CSAIL is a much larger, broader computer science and AI lab with active computational health research. While not a focused biomedical informatics institute, it operates in the same computational health sciences space and serves as a broad incumbent in the academic AI/health research ecosystem.

Market position

Strengths3 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks4 records

Key highlights4 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/UCSF_BCHSI
• YouTubeyoutube.com/ucsf
• Facebookfacebook.com/ucsf
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/77099993
• Instagraminstagram.com/ucsf

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