Startup licensee focused on early-stage breast cancer detection and diagnosis UC Davis has signed a licensing agreement providing Isotropic Imaging Corporation the rights to commercialize a novel computed tomography (CT) scanner that has the potential to improve breast cancer detection and positively impact women’s health. The technology was developed at UC Davis by a team […]
UC Davis-HM.CLAUSE Life Science Innovation Center is one of several business incubators to foster regional innovation. UC Davis announced today its receipt of $2.2 million in one-time funding from Assembly Bill 2664, the Innovation and Entrepreneurship Expansion bill authored by Assembly member Jacqui Irwin, D-Thousand Oaks, and signed last fall by Governor Jerry Brown. AB […]
Hybrid molecule LLP2A-Alendronate could have implications for osteonecrosis, fractures, osteoporosis and inflammatory arthritis. From Left: Fred Tileston (RABOME, Inc.), Ruiwu Liu, Nancy Lane, Christy Pifer, Wei Yao, Kit Lam and Jiwei Chen (RABOME, Inc.) The University of California, Davis, is pleased to announce a licensing agreement with Regenerative Arthritis and Bone Medicine, Inc. (RABOME) for […]
August 4, 2016: Venture Catalyst, a unit within the Technology Management and Corporate Relations division of the UC Davis Office of Research, is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2016 Science Translation and Innovative Research, or STAIR, grants. Now in its third year, the competitive STAIR grant program provides awards of up to $50,000 to […]
News 1 Team develops device that that may improve the ability of emergency personnel to properly ventilate pediatric patients Dr. Austin Johnson is a physician in the Department of Emergency Medicine and a current scholar in the Mentored Clinical Research Training Program at the UC Davis Clinical and Translational Science Center (CTSC). […]
Colleen E. Clancy, Ph.D., is a professor in the Department of Pharmacology at the UC Davis School of Medicine and a pioneer in the field of biophysics. Together with her team, Clancy studies the mechanisms associated with electrical disorders of the heart. Unlike traditional research methods that rely on animal models or human clinical testing, […]
UC Davis is partnering with Mars, Inc. in a global plant-breeding consortium that is fighting malnutrition and poverty in Africa by improving the continent’s traditional food crops. These “orphan” crops have been largely ignored by science because they are not internationally traded commodities, but are the food crops grown in the back gardens of the […]
The University of California, Davis, enabled the foundation of 14 commercial startups during the past fiscal year— matching the largest number of new ventures launched in a single year, based on UC Davis technologies. MUSE Microscopy, one of the startups, is planning to revolutionize the way pathologists identify disease. The company’s technology, jointly developed with […]
AstRoNA Biotechnologies is working to create a hand-held device that can be used to detect a variety of pathogens, including foodborne pathogens like E. coli, pictured here. (Credit: Thinkstock) Marc Pollack, a Ph.D. student in the UC Davis Microbiology graduate group, and Jeremy Warren, a former postdoc in Plant Pathology, leave Davis at 5 a.m. […]
Dr. John Boone is a recognized expert in the field of medical imaging, with a focus on improving breast cancer detection. He and his team have developed a device with the potential to detect tumors in the breast earlier and with less discomfort. The American Cancer Society reports that breast cancer is the second most […]