March 14, 2024
The forward-thinking innovators behind Vektor Medical and FjordPhyto took home the top prizes during UC San Diego’s inaugural Chancellor’s Innovation Awards celebration, highlighting the university’s diverse entrepreneurial campus culture.
March 12, 2015
Frontiers of Innovation Scholars Program Launches 200 Student-Research Projects Photos by Erik Jepsen/UC San Diego Publications One hundred undergraduates, 80 Ph.D. students and 20 postdoctoral scholars all received a big boost to their careers – and UC San Diego made a big investment in the future of interdisciplinary research –…
February 15, 2018
…the California Institute for Innovation and Development (CIID) at the Rady School of Management. The institute was founded to support and catalyze the University of California’s innovation leadership and entrepreneurship initiatives. The Mentorship Initiative will coordinate mentorship opportunities throughout the Rady School and create a forum to enhance and coordinate…
May 16, 2019
…captures all the biotech innovation in San Diego. She plans to grow her division’s expertise in microsurgery (surgery performed under a microscope), and she is excited by the potential of stem cells and regenerative techniques to improve reconstructions. Her own research is currently focused on the use of distraction osteogenesis—a…
April 17, 2014
…Establish Center for Social Innovation and Impact at Rady School A $1 million endowment from Carol Lazier and Family has been given to the University of California, San Diego to help establish the Center for Social Innovation and Impact and the Endowed Chair in Social Innovation and Impact at the…
June 29, 2017
Cocoon Cam, a computer-vision-based baby monitor company co-founded by University of California San Diego computer science alumnus Pavan Kumar (M.S. Computer Science 2015), recently announced that it closed a $4 million Series A funding round. Cocoon Cam is a baby monitor that relies on computer vision technologies to track breathing…
May 4, 2020
The Altman Clinical and Translational Research Institute at University of California San Diego has received a five-year, $54.7 million Clinical and Translational Science Award from the National Center for Advancing Translational Science (NCATS), part of the National Institutes of Health.
November 16, 2017
…a leader in social innovation education.” Annual Founders events offer an opportunity to celebrate our risk-takers, trendsetters and changemakers who continue to push boundaries and challenge expectations. Innovative faculty and graduate students will present their research to donors and invited guests on Thursday evening, Nov. 16, at the Founders Symposium.…
October 9, 2014
…the National Institutes of Health to lay the groundwork for visualizing the circuits of the brain and how they work. That followed an August announcement by the National Science Foundation of early concept grants for brain research from the BRAIN Initiative to another four teams at UC San Diego totaling…
June 20, 2014
…– short for California Blueprint for Research to Advance Innovations in Neuroscience – is a state complement to the federal BRAIN Initiative announced by President Barack Obama in April of 2013. It aims to “accelerate the development of brain mapping techniques, including the development of new technologies.”
