Horizon Accelerator announced the formation of its inaugural Advisory Board to address what researchers call the "commercialization valley of death", the critical $250,000 to $2 million early-stage funding gap where science-driven ventures most often fail.
The University of California San Diego's Accelerating Innovation to Market (AIM) program today announced its 2026 cohort of seven faculty-led ventures, marking a strategic evolution in the program's tenth year of translating breakthrough research into real-world impact.
UC San Diego Team Sea++ was awarded third place at this year’s Student Cluster Competition, which took place at the International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis, held this year in St. Louis, Missouri.
A gene that turns on very early in embryonic development could be key to the formation of the placenta, which provides the developing fetus with all of the nutrients it needs to thrive during gestation.
The GAIA Initiative kickoff event brought together research groups throughout UC San Diego that are already leveraging AI to accelerate their projects. Organizers said the goal was to "harness UC San Diego’s world-class Earth science and AI expertise to transform how we understand the planet.”
In an effort to create a bridge between scientific discovery and biomedical impact, UC San Diego hosted a forum that brought together life sciences CEOs, entrepreneurs, investors, faculty, postdoctoral scholars and students.
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