UCLA Donated Body Program

The David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA Donated Body Program provides human cadavers for scientific anatomical studies essential to teaching and research for UCLA and its affiliates.

The University relies on the support and generosity of the community for help in fulfilling its academic, research and healthcare mission. The University recognizes the value and importance of these donations and is committed to ensuring that they are treated with care and the utmost respect.

Donated human remains are integral to a wide range of educational, research and clinical pursuits, including anatomy instruction and neurological, anatomical and physiological research, and pathological examination, to name a few.

These anatomical remains provide invaluable human materials for use in study, training and research and are also used for surgical procedural training, allied health education, forensic research and training, mortuary science education and the development and testing of new medical devices.

UCLA is one of the foremost medical research institutions in the world, carrying on studies in numerous fields in order to discover new methods of fighting disease, alleviating suffering and assisting in recovery from injury.

Learn more at www.donatedbodyprogram.ucla.edu

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Science & Technology

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• Donated Body Program
• cadavers
• anatomical studies
• willed body
• research
• anatomy
• anatomical remains
• UCLA
• Dean Fisher
• body donation

[SteveArpo]

Al credit those like myself that are donating their body to medical science. A quick message to those that for cultural and religious reasons refuse to donate their bodies. Are you happy hitching a free ride from the medical profession and from people like that do not live their lives based on myth and superstition? If you are, shame on you.

[Doorway2Chaos]

I think that this ceremony is a truly beautiful thing to be done for these people who donate themselves to science.

[bordersbelle]

I have filled in my bequest forms for my body donation and only hope it is appreciated here in the U.K as the bodies donated to the UCLA.