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2025 AIM Award Recipients Rise to the Top

Awards & Accolades

Now in its 8th year, UC San Diego’s Accelerating Innovation to Market (AIM) program kicks off what promises to be yet another successful year with the announcement of its latest roster of awarded projects for 2025. This dynamic initiative, led by the Office of Innovation and Commercialization, focuses on expediting groundbreaking university technologies into market-ready solutions through resources and funding. Unique to this year, however, the total award pool leaped to an impressive $400,000, over 60% larger than in previous years, which then allowed the program to double the number of startups it could fund. The record increase was due in large part to the support of the University of California Office of the President, which graciously matched funding with the Entrepreneurship Council.

Collage of seven winners' portraits for the 2024-2025 AIM Awardees.

Blood Pressure Readings at Your Fingertips

Awards & Accolades

New method takes blood pressure readings using only a smartphone.

A close-up of a phone with one finger over the front-facing camera; another finger is pushing down on the first finger.

Grant Goodall Elected a Fellow of the Linguistic Society of America

Awards & Accolades

Grant Goodall, professor of Linguistics in the School of Social Sciences, has been elected a fellow of the Linguistic Society of America (LSA).

Grant Goodall Elected a Fellow of the Linguistic Society of America

New Dean for School of Medicine Brings Visionary Leadership and a Commitment to Innovation

Profiles

It’s been said that great leaders don’t set out to be leaders, instead they set out to make a difference. For Barbara Jung, M.D., the newly appointed Associate Vice Chancellor and Dean of the University of California San Diego School of Medicine, making a difference has always been on her radar.

Expanse Supercomputer to Expand Training for Chemistry Faculty, Students Nationwide

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Sonoma State University Chemistry Professor and Chair Mark J. Perri has been awarded nearly $1M from the U.S. National Science Foundation to enhance ChemCompute, a free online platform he created for undergraduate students to perform advanced computational chemistry experiments.

A Legacy of Innovation, Compassion, and Leadership in Spine Surgery and Beyond

Profiles

With a penchant for math and science, Steven R. Garfin, M.D., always figured he would do something related to science, but as an undergraduate student at the University of Minnesota, he had no idea how his career would turn out or the incredible impact that he would have on thousands of lives.