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.
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.
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.
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.
