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Welcome to the Clinical & Translational Science Institute (CTSI) at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). By visiting or using this site, you agree to abide by the terms outlined below. Please note that the terms of use and privacy policy may change from time-to-time and thus your use will be subject to the policy in place at the time of use.

Terms of Use

This website is intended to provide information to the UCSF community, our partners, and interested parties.

Accuracy and Completeness

While CTSI reviews content for accuracy, errors may occasionally occur; it cannot guarantee accuracy or completeness of information on the site. CTSI will not be held responsible for any errors or omissions, or for the use of the information provided or for any results obtained from the use of such information. Due to constant changes and the potential for error, users are encouraged to confirm the information found on this website with other reliable sources.

Links to Other Sites

Links to other websites are provided as a service to our users and do not imply endorsement by CTSI or UCSF. CTSI does not control external sites and is not responsible for the privacy practices or content related to external sites.

Confidentiality and Privacy

This website does not require personal information to use the site, nor does it gather personal information. CTSI does not track visitors' identification or use of this website. However, we do collect aggregate information on what pages are visited in order to assess and improve the content of our site. These procedures do not provide us with personal information of visitors.

Names and addresses submitted by visitors through mailing-list or registration forms are used solely for the announced purposes. CTSI does not share, rent, trade, sell, or otherwise release this information without consent, except if required to do so by law. This website may provide links to external sites, both within and outside UCSF, that require and/or store personal information. CTSI is not responsible for the policies of external sites.

Legal Compliance

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Users should assume that everything you see or read on this site is copyrighted by the Regents of the University of California unless otherwise noted.

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Accelerate is managed by the UCSF Clinical and Translational Science Institute (CTSI), part of the Clinical and Translational Science Award program funded by the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (Grant Number UL1 TR000004) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

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