Venture Catalyst Newsletter Archive

May 2024

Top stories

  • 2024 ACE Awardees: 7 Inspiring Climate Change Solutions
  • UC Davis-associated Startup Scout Raises $3M
  • 24th Annual UC Davis Big Bang! Awards Ceremony
  • UC Davis-associated Startup TurtleTree Secures First Commercial Customer in Cadence Cold Brew
  • NorCal AngelCon Application Deadline is June 1!

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April 2024

Top stories

  • Join Us: UC Davis Research Expo 2024
  • Venture Catalyst, Aliment Capital, and MoFo Host Food & Ag Startup Legal Bootcamp
  • Have a Startup Idea? Or Looking for a Proven Method to Validate Your Idea?
  • UC Davis Student Startup Center PLASMA Demo Day 2024
  • Venture Catalyst Founders’ Circle Roundup

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March 2024

Top stories

  • UC Davis Researchers Awarded Aggie Climate Action for Equity (ACE) Grants
  • Venture Catalyst, Aliment Capital, and MoFo Host Food & Ag Startup Legal Bootcamp
  • AgStart and Bayer Announce Golden Ticket Competition for AgriFood Innovators
  • UC Davis-associated Startup Elve to Open New Manufacturing Operation in Davis
  • LifeSpace Labs Unveils One-of-a-Kind Flex BioCulture Program

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February 2024

Top stories

  • Venture Catalyst – Celebrating 10 Years!
  • 2024 STAIR Grant – Call for Proposals Now Open!
  • UC Davis Big Bang! Business Competition Registration Deadline – February 26, 2024
  • Local Startup Competitions Application Deadlines Close Soon!
  • UC Davis-associated Startup AgriNerds Named Comstock Magazine’s Startup of the Month

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January 2024

Top stories

  • Chancellor May Names George Baxter to New Position of Chief Innovation and Economic Development Officer
  • Venture Catalyst Hosts Sixth Annual Biotech Innovation Gallery (BIG) Open House and Showcase in San Francisco
  • UC Davis-associated Startup 3D-OPS Named Comstock Magazine’s Startup of the Month
  • Five UC Davis-associated Startups on the Sacramento Business Journal 2024 List of ‘Startups to Watch’
  • Integrative Center for Alternative Meat and Protein (iCAMP) Launches at UC Davis
  • NorCal Entrepreneur Hub: Demo and Information Session

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December 2023

Top stories

  • Aggie Climate action for Equity (ACE) is Now Accepting Grant Proposals!
  • 2024 Biotech Innovation Gallery (BIG) ​Showcase at J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference
  • UC Davis-associated Startup Expert IEP Wins $1 Million Black Ambition Prize
  • UC Davis-associated Startup AgriNerds Takes Top Prize at Spark Venture Competition
  • UC Davis CuRe Trial Awarded $15 Million by State Stem Cell Agency
  • Get Your Applications In! Opportunities for Life Sciences, FoodTech, and More

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November 2023

Top stories

  • UC Davis-associated Startup RePurpose Energy Leading EV Battery Repurposing
  • ​Aggies for Climate Equity (ACE) and Student Startup Center Host Climate Solution Contest
  • UC Davis-associated Startup 3D-OPS Uses 3D-printed Spider Silk to Solve Big Problems in Medicine
  • Three UC Davis-associated Startups Pitch at UC Irvine’s Born in California Event
  • Global Entrepreneurship Week is Next Week! Check Out These Great Events!

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October 2023

Top stories

  • UC Davis Researchers Capitalize on Important Agricultural Traits Discovered in Wild Chickpeas
  • Venture Catalyst Welcomes New Manager: Aggies for Climate Equity (ACE)
  • UC Davis Climate Solutions Contest – $1,000 Grand Prize!
  • Big Bang! Business Competition Kicks Off Tonight
  • NSF I-Corps – Have a Startup Idea? Or Looking for a Proven Method to Validate Your Idea?

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September 2023

Top stories

  • UC Davis Researchers Exploring Data and AI Tools for Animal Health Diagnosis and Treatment
  • Local Events – See You There!
  • The Annual Big Bang! Business Competition is Back
  • UC Davis-associated Startup Botanical Solution Raises$7M for Pharma, Ag-tech Production
  • IN² Announces 12th Cohort Focused on Climate-aligned Agriculture

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August 2023

Top stories

  • UC Davis Scientists Awarded over $540,000 Through STAIR Program
  • BioTech Innovation Gallery 2024 Pre-Accelerator Program
  • UC Davis-associated Startup Sage Therapeutics’ Pill gets FDA Approval for Postpartum Depression
  • UC Davis-associated Startup Oobli Releases World’s First Tea Sweetened with Plant-based Protein
  • Davis-based InnerPlant gets USDA Approval for its Traits that Fluoresce when Plants are Under Distress

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July 2023

Top stories

  • 2023 UC Davis Innovation Awards Honors Innovators and their Impactful Contributions
  • Venture Catalyst is Hiring! ACE Program Manager
  • Local Startup, Pheronym, ​Gets $1M NSF Grant to Expand Manufacturing
  • UC Davis-spinout Sensit Ventures Inc. Develops Breakthrough Technology for Egg Industry
  • UC Davis Professor Addresses Plastic Pollution with New Bioplastic Technology

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June 2023

Top stories

  • UC Davis NSF I-Corps Method
  • Local Startup Aims to Improve Protein Digestibility to Advance Health Outcomes
  • Two UC Davis-associated Startups Take Top Prizes at Pitch Elk Grove
  • DRIVE Network Incubator, AgStart, Gets $50K to Develop National Network
  • UC Davis Big Bang! Announces Winners
  • Sweet Teas That Get Sweetness From Protein

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May 2023

Top stories

  • Two UC Davis-associated Startups Among Finalists in Local Pitch Competition
  • UC Davis-associated Startup, Pheronym, Featured on Prominent Gardening Podcast
  • Big Bang! Finalists – 18 Teams to Vie for Prizes in Annual UC Davis Business Competition
  • Incubator Labs in Yolo County Bridge Gap from Research to Sustainable Business for Local Startups
  • Delix Therapeutics Initiates Phase I Trial for Novel Compound DLX-001

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April 2023

Top stories

  • UC Davis-associated Startup MyFloraDNA at Forefront of Plant Genetics Innovation
  • UC Davis Student Startup Center PLASMA Demo Day
  • 2023 UC Davis Research Expo
  • Checking In With Chancellor May: A Legacy of Innovation
  • UC Davis Releases 5 Strawberry Varieties Resistant to Deadly Fungal Disease

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March 2023

Top stories

  • UC Davis Startup Developing Novel Technology Aimed at Increasing the Consumption and Resulting ​Health Benefits of Dietary Fiber
  • Two UC Davis-associated Startups Among Finalists for Sacramento Kings Startup Competition
  • UC Announces $15M in ​Climate-Focused Innovation Awards
  • Parking Technology Startup, Japa, Lands UC Davis Medical Center and the City of Vacaville As Customers
  • UC Davis-associated Startup, Frinj Coffee, Teams Up with Panera Bread for National Press Spot
  • 2022 UC Davis Innovator of the Year Award Winner Lands$4M Grant to Expand Open Education Platform

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February 2023

Top stories

  • 2023 UC Davis Innovation Awards Nominations Announcement
  • New Smart Technology by UC Davis Professor May Help in Early Detection of Insects in Food and Ag Products
  • Now Accepting Applications for the 2022-2023 ​UC Davis STAIR™ Grant Program
  • CropX Acquires Precision Irrigation Startup, Tule
  • Davis-Founded Infant Nutrition Startup, Infinant Health, Names Former Cargill Director Mike Johnson New CEO
  • UC Davis Big Bang! Business Competition Registration Deadline is March 1, 2023!
  • NorCal Entrepreneur Hub

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January 2023

Top stories

  • Venture Catalyst Hosts Fifth Annual Biotech Innovation Gallery (BIG) Open House and Showcase in San Francisco
  • UC Davis health CoLab Launches Innovation Technology Incubator
  • UC Davis-Associated Startup MyFloraDNA Makes Sacramento Inno’s Startup to Watch
  • Therma Bright Invests in UC Davis-Associated Startup InStatin
  • Four UC Davis College of Engineering Projects Receive CITRIS Seed Awards

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December 2022

Top stories

  • UC Davis Professor Louise Berben Awarded the Breakthrough Energy Explorer Grant
  • Delix Therapeutics Named a Top Academic Spinout and a Top 10 Startup to Watch
  • Botanical Solution Inc. (BSI) & Croda Pharma Partnership Agreement to Accelerate Production for GMP QS-21
  • UC Davis-Associated Startup, California Cultured, Named Comstock’s Magazine Startup of the Month
  • Congratulations to UC Davis Faculty Named National Academy of Inventors Fellows
  • Farm to Fungi to Food: Growing the Next Generation of Alternative Protein

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November 2022

Top stories

  • NuCicer Secures $7 Million in Second-Stage Seed Round
  • 2022 Nordic Food Summit Hosted by UC Davis
  • UC Davis and Barnstorm Announce Partnership to Tackle Health and Sustainability
  • Global Entrepreneurship Week Kicks Off at the Carlsen Center at Sacramento State
  • UC Davis Awarded $6.2 Million Grant to Further Strawberry Breeding
  • UC Davis Research Celebration and Exploration

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October 2022

Top stories

  • World’s First Stem Cell Treatment for Spina Bifida Delivered During Fetal Surgery
  • Nobel Prize Awarded to Three Scientists for Work in Click Chemistry
  • 23rd Annual Big Bang! Business Competition Kicks Off
  • Beyond the Bean; The UC Davis Coffee Center Aims to Elevate Coffee Research and Teaching
  • $50M Pledged to UC Davis for Sustainability Research

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September 2022

Top stories

  • New Startups Built From UC Davis Innovations Drive Solutions in Food, Health, and Agriculture
  • ViVita Technologies Awarded $1.5M NIH Grant to Translate Biomaterials with Blueprints for Regeneration
  • Eco-Minded Aggie Entrepreneur Builds a ‘Closet in the Cloud’
  • JAPA Wins Startup World Cup Sacramento
  • ARIZ Precision Medicine named One of the Top Five Nanotechnology Startups Impacting the Pharm Sector
  • UC Davis Receives Accolades as Top 10 Public University

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August 2022

Top stories

  • Proof-of-Concept Grants Awarded to Advance Innovations to Commercial Opportunities
  • 2023 Chancellor’s Innovation Awards Honor Contributions to Society
  • UC Davis Joins an Exclusive Group Surpassing $1 Billion in Research Funding
  • Studies Show Healthy Davis Together Prevented Infections, Hospitalizations and Deaths
  • Startup Developing Technology to Combat Degenerative Diseases
  • UC Davis Professors Receive CIRM Award
  • Interdisciplinary Team Receives $5.9M Grant to Improve Rapid Diagnostics
  • EPA Presents green Chemistry Challenge Award to Chemistry Professor
  • Ph.D Student Develops AI Platform for Dairy Farmers
  • National Academy of Inventors Inducts UC Davis Distinguished Professor Walter Leal
  • Electrical Engineering Students Awarded for Innovations Focused on Maternal Health, Indoor Irrigation, and Wine Fermentation

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March 2022

Top stories

  • Celebrating UC Davis Women in Innovation
  • The 2022 Food System Innovation Award Program
  • Pioneer in Flexible Iontronic Sensing Technology Prepares to Scale the Business
  • Space Research on Inspection Satellite Takes the Stage at UC Davis
  • IPO Window Favors Software Companies That Use Category Innovation
  • NSF I-Corps Entrepreneurship Short Course at UC Davis
  • UC Davis and Pfizer Partner on Two New COVID-19 Booster Vaccine Clinical Trials
  • UC Davis Nanomedicine Scientist Recognized as a Top Biomedical negineer in the U.S.
  • New Research Shows Predictors for Diabetes are Different for Black and White Women
  • UC Davis is First in Region to Grow Cancer-Fighting CAR T Cells
  • Davis Founded Marrone Bio Acquired for $236 Million
  • Former Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson Launches VC Firm to Invest in Diverse Businesses
  • Climate Change Efforts at the White House Increase Public Electric Car Chargers to 500,000
  • Spatial Alchemy: Why proximity matters for innovation

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February 2022

Top stories

  • Ishita Shah and Matrubials Inc Aim to Turn Milk Into Medicine
  • 2022 UC Davis Chancellor Innovation Awards
  • Venture Capital Backed Botanical Solution Inc Expands Production and Footprint
  • Venture Catalyst Launches the 2022 STAIR Grant Program Cycle
  • UC Davis to Lead a Climate Resistant Wheat Breeding Project
  • IIFH and Venture Catalyst Revamps the 2022 Food System Innovation Award Program
  • Aggie Square: UC Davis Breaks Ground on $1 Billion Innovation District in Sacramento
  • Perspectives on Investing in Agriculture Startups
  • Federal Work Study Pilot Links Students to Local Startups and Small Businesses
  • Knowledge Exchange: Getting Your Startup Story Straight

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January 2022

Top stories

  • Venture Catalyst Hosts Fourth Annual Biotech Innovation Gallery Event and Startup Showcase
  • UC Davis Researchers Developing Novel Cancer Drug That Mimics Viral Mechanisms
  • UC Davis Office of Research Annual Report
  • Secure SBIR/STTR Funding Through NSF Virtual Workshop
  • Seed Central Innovators Showcase
  • UC Davis CoLab Taps AWS to Accelerate Digital Health Innovation, with an Eye Toward Health Equity
  • Venture Catalyst Welcomes the New Marketing and Outreach Manager
  • New Ways to Detect COVID-19

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October 2021

Top stories

  • New Startups Built From UC Davis Research and Innovation Emerge With Solutions in Health, Energy and Agriculture
  • UC Davis-Enabled Startup Delix Therapeutics Secures $70 Million in Series A Funding
  • UC Davis Sets New Record High in Research Funding: $968 Million
  • UC Davis Venture Catalyst Launches New Small Business Development Program Focused on Agtech and Biotech
  • Upcoming Venture Catalyst Virtual Events Focused on Non-Dilutive Funding and Product Development
  • UC Davis Supports New Federal Work Study Program for Startups and Small Businesses
  • UC Davis Launches Neuroscience Consortium
  • NCI Renews Prestigious ‘Comprehensive’ Designation for Cancer Center
  • Engineers Invent Machine to Shake Up UC Davis’ COVID-19 Testing

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August 2021

Top stories

  • UC Davis Proof-of-Concept Grants Advance Innovations Toward Commercialization
  • Venture Catalyst Welcomes New Associate Director
  • Thermo Fisher Scientific and UC Davis Launch Center of Excellence in Clinical Metabolomics
  • Turning Tarantula Venom Into Pain Relief
  • Personalized Medicine for Cats With Heart Disease
  • Susan G. Komen® Awards $600,000 Research Grant to Radiology Chair Elizabeth Morris
  • Research Investments in Cannabis and Hemp Grants Awards Announced
  • Clinic Transforms Cancer Treatment by Combining Diagnosis and Therapy – or Theranostics
  • The Greatest Fundraising Year in UC Davis History
  • UC Davis Welcomes Denise Ehlen as new Associate Vice Chancellor for Research Administration and Central Services
  • Awards for Creativity and Innovation
  • UC Davis Institute for Innovation & Entrepreneurship Recruiting for Associate Director Position

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July 2021

Top stories

  • Innovators’ Achievements Honored With 2021 Chancellor’s Innovation Awards
  • UC Davis Innovation & Technology Commercialization Launches Streamlined Startup Agreement
  • Nomination Period Open for the 2021 Sacramento Region Innovation Awards
  • Biofuels Research Grants to Faculty
  • The House That Doesn’t Burn
  • UC Davis Earns National Award for COVID-19 Response
  • UC Davis Appoints New Deans for Engineering and Letters & Science
  • A COVID Test as Easy as Breathing (New York Times)

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June 2021

Top stories

  • Venture Catalyst Partners with AgStart
  • UC Davis Affiliated Startup Developing Ecommerce Fraud Prevention Solutions Acquired by Stripe
  • UC Davis Venture Catalyst Knowledge Exchange Webinar
  • Validate Your Startup Idea and Technology Through Customer Discovery
  • Nomination Period Open for the 2021 Sacramento Region Innovation Awards
  • Innovation in Cancer Screening Wins Top Prize in Annual UC Davis Business Competition
  • Discovery Increases Likelihood of Growing Food Despite Drought
  • Measuring Brain Blood Flow and Activity With Light
  • School of Medicine Launches New Interdisciplinary Center Focused on Diagnostic Innovations
  • Understanding Immunity to Chlamydia Opens Possibility of Vaccine
  • Regents Approve Next Steps for Aggie Square Housing, Alice Waters Institute

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May 2021

Top stories

  • UC Davis Affiliated Startup Aims to Improve Detection of Congenital heart Defects in Newborns
  • UC Davis Venture Catalyst Knowledge Exchange Webinar
  • BridgeBio Pharm, Inc. and UC Davis Establish Collaboration to Transform Research into Potential Therapies for Genetically Driven Diseases
  • TurtleTree Announces R&D Headquarters in Davis, California
  • PsychLight Sensor to Enable Discovery of New Psychiatric Drugs
  • Finding New Life for Wine-Grape Residue
  • New Imaging Diagnostic Tool Lights Up Tumors During Brain Cancer Surgery
  • Aggie Hacks x Google Cloud: The COVID-19 Path to Recovery

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April 2021

Top stories

  • Venture Catalyst Mentors Assist National NSF I-Corps Teams
  • Holcombe Law Group Joins Venture Catalyst LegalNet Program
  • Repurposing Used Electric Vehicle Batteries for Solar Power Storage
  • A New Natural Blue for Food Coloring
  • Can the Right Probiotic Work for Breast Milk-Fed Babies?
  • Feeding Cattle Seaweed Reduces Their Greenhouse Gas Emissions by 82 Percent
  • Animal Model Opens Way to Test Alzheimer’s Disease Therapies
  • UC Davis Health Tests Anti-Inflammatory Antiviral Compound as COVID-19 Therapy
  • Aggie Square’s Community Benefits Laid Out
  • UC Davis Ranked Among Best in World, Nation for Veterinary Science, Ag and UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine Recognized for Highest-Ever Level of NIH Funding

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March 2021

Top stories

  • ‘Just Sticky Enough’ Compound Maybe Help Patients with Kidney Disease
  • UC Davis Venture Catalyst Knowledge Exchange Webinar
  • UC Davis Releases 2 New Strawberry Varieties
  • Stavros Vougioukas Receives $1.6M to Develop Innovative Fruit-Picking Machines
  • First Stem Cell Clinical Trial for Spina Bifida Treatment Announced
  • Alumna Names Engineering Student Design Center
  • 2021 Fudd Family Foundation Big Ideas Finalists Announced!
  • California Mobility Center Announces Top Mobility Sector Leaders as Members of the Board in Advance of Official Commercial Launch

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February 2021

Top stories

  • Venture Catalyst Announces Launch of the 2020-21 Proof-of-Concept Programs Cycle
  • 2021 UC Davis Chancellor’s Innovation Awards
  • Validate Your Startup Idea and Technology Through Customer Discovery
  • Rockridge Venture Law® Joins as a partner in the Venture Catalyst LegalNetTM Program
  • UC Davis Licenses Novel COVID-19 Lung Treatment Using Inhaled Statins to InVixa, Inc
  • UC Davis Releases New Walnut Variety
  • 2021 Women in Tech Initiative Athena Award Winners Announced
  • UC Announces Its 2021 Startup Innovation Challenge Winners
  • UC Davis Receives $3.2 Million Award to Study Age-Related Macular Degeneration
  • Innovative Serotonin Sensor to Improve Neurological Drug Development
  • UC’s Economic Impact On California Hits New High of $82B Annually

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January 2021

Top stories

  • Venture Catalyst Hosts Third Annual Biotech Innovation Gallery Event and Startup Showcase
  • Seed Central Innovators Showcase
  • ‘Click Chemistry’ Cancer Treatment Developed by UC Davis Startup Now in Clinical Trials
  • Promise for New Proteins
  • Identifying Where to Reforest After Wildfire
  • UC Davis Center for Neuroengineering & Medicine Aims to Improve Quality of Life for All
  • U.S. Small Businesses To Get More Cash As Pandemic Loan Program Re-Opens

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December 2020

Top stories

  • New Compound Related to Psychedelic Ibogaine Could Treat Addiction, Depression
  • State Stem Cell Agency Funds Clinical Trial for Spina Bifida treatment
  • UC Davis Joins Cybersecurity Manufacturing Innovation Institute
  • UC Board of Regents Approves $1.1B Aggie Square Project
  • 2020 CITRIS Core Seed Funding Awards Announced
  • Governor Newsom Announces Immediate Assistance for Businesses Impacted by COVID-19 Including Temporary Tax Relief and $500 Million in Grants

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November 2020

Top stories

  • Venture Catalyst Welcomes New Associate Directors
  • Seed Central Innovators Showcase
  • New Technology Speeds Up Crop Improvement
  • Sacramento City Council Adopts Intent to Establish Aggie Square
  • UC Davis School of Medicine and UTHealth Get Nearly $54 Million to Study the Role of White Matter Lesions in Dementia
  • Berkeley Lab’s Computational Research Division Summer Students Support Pandemic Response

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October 2020

Top stories

  • Innovative Startups Commercializing UC Davis Technologies
  • UC Davis Sets Record With $941 Million in Research Funding
  • UC Davis to Lead New Artificial Intelligence Institute for Next-Generation Food Systems
  • Surgical and Engineering Researcher Wins National Dialysis Innovation Award
  • New Partnership Seeds Microbiome Research
  • High-Throughput COVID-19 Screening Coming to Campus

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September 2020

Top stories

  • Innovative Startups Commercializing UC Davis Technologies
  • UC Davis Sets Record With $941 Million in Research Funding
  • UC Davis to Lead New Artificial Intelligence Institute for Next-Generation Food Systems
  • Surgical and Engineering Researcher Wins National Dialysis Innovation Award
  • New Partnership Seeds Microbiome Research
  • High-Throughput COVID-19 Screening Coming to Campus

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August 2020

Top stories

  • Inagural UC Davis NSF I-CorpsTM Immersive Short Course Launched with Significant Demand
  • COVID-19 Survey Findings Summary
  • Meet MILO, a Powerful Machine Learning AI Tool From UC Davis Health
  • LiquidGoldConcept Wins Big Ideas 2020 Scaling Up Contest
  • Research Investments in Cannabis and Hemp Awarded
  • Neuroscience Researcher Receives $1.5 Million Grant from Department of Defense to Develop New Diagnostic Tool for Hearing Loss
  • UC Davis Researchers Adapt Nanotech to Catch Coronavirus
  • NIH Grant to Create Humanized Mice Susceptible to COVID-19
  • New Synthetic Biology Tools Unlock Complex Plant Engineering
  • Can Clearing Out Tiny Shrimp Restore Lake Tahoe’s Clarity?
  • UC Davis Aggie Square Will Add Billions to Sacramento Region and Aggie Square Developer Explains Why UC Davis, Why Sacramento

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July 2020

Top stories

  • UC Davis Names Recipients of 2020 Chancellor’s Innovation Awards
  • UC Davis Startup Develops Monitor That Measures Baby’s Blood Oxygen Saturation in the Womb
  • New Technique Allows 3D Printing of Flexible Materials
  • UC Davis Researchers Adapt Amyloid Technology to Catch Coronavirus
  • Satya Dandekar Honored with Prestigious NIH MERIT Award for HIV Research
  • UC Davis Chancellor Gary May Selects Mary Croughan as Next Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor
  • UC Davis Ranked Among World’s Top Universities

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June 2020

Top stories

  • UC Davis Awards Grants to Advance Innovative Solutions with Commercial Potential
  • Heffernan Insurance Brokers is the Newest Partner in the Venture Catalyst VentureNetTM Program
  • Medical Innovations Win Big in 20th Annual UC Davis Business Competition
  • Vice Chancellor for Research, Graduate Student Develop COVID-19 Contact-Tracing Tool
  • New Double-Contrast Technique Picks Up Small Tumors on MRI
  • Data Science Researchers Receive Over $1 Million in Grants
  • UC Davis Receives $6.7M for 5-year Renewal of its NIH Mutant Mouse Resource & Research Center
  • UC’s CITRIS Launches COVID-19 Response with 25 Awards for Innovative Technologies
  • CTSC is a Quiet Hero of UC Davis COVID-19 Research

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May 2020

Top stories

  • COVID-19 Information
  • UC Davis Releases 6 New Varieties of Organic Beans
  • UC Davis Health Researchers are Awarded Additional $4 Million to Develop New Therapies for Pancreatic Cancer
  • New Study Suggests Ways to Alleviate Social Withdrawal Symptoms in Mental Illnesses
  • Computer Model Predicts How Drugs Affect Heart Rhythm
  • Award Supports Cutting-Edge Biomedical Research to Benefit Children With Cerebral Palsy
  • Genetic Variation Not an Obstacle to Gene Drive Strategy to Control Mosquitoes

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April 2020

Top stories

  • COVID-19 Information
  • Sierra Biopharma is Developing Antigen-Specific Therapy Targeting Autoimmune Diseases
  • Wearable Device Assists People with Loss of Bladder Function
  • Changes in Surface Sugarlike Molecules Help Cancer Metastasize
  • CRISPR Genome Editing Strategy Could Improve Rice, Other Crops
  • $1M Grant for UC Davis-Led Online Learning Project

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March 2020

Top stories

  • Venture Catalyst Collaborating with Adduci Studios through VentureNet Program
  • University Startup PvP Biologics Acquired by Takeda Pharmaceutical Company
  • UC Davis Selects Fresa Fortaleza, LLC, for Strawberry Licensing in Mexico
  • Mars Extends its Partnership with UC Davis and City of Davis for a New Research Program on Cacao
  • UC Davis Claims Top World Ranking in Veterinary Science
  • New Cryo-Electron Microscope Powers Biological Sciences Discovery
  • UC Davis, Santa Cruz Collaborate to Speed Wound Healing With a Novel Smart Bandage
  • Veterinarians Use Artificial Intelligence to Aid in the Diagnosis of Addison’s Disease

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February 2020

Top stories

  • Nomination Period for the Innovator of the Year Awards Open Through March 12, 2020
  • Venture Catalyst Announces Launch of 2019-20 STAIR and DIAL Proof-of-Concept Grant Programs
  • UC Davis Venture Catalyst Knowledge Exchange: Growth, People, and Confidence: Building Out Top Talent and Advisors within Early-Stage Life Science Startups
  • UC Davis Venture Catalyst SBIR/STTR Grant Workshop
  • Kings will Pay $10,000 to Winner of Capitalize Startup Competition
  • Anti-Solar Cells: A Photovoltaic Cell That Works at Night
  • Carter and Tian Named as Co-Directors of the UC Davis Cannabis and Hemp Research Center
  • Keck Foundation Grant Will Help Scientists See Small Proteins
  • Look What’s Inside: Full-Body Movies From EXPLORER Scanner
  • Aggie Square, Alice Waters Collaborate on Edible Education Institute
  • Levenson Named Fellow of International Society for Optics and Photonics

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January 2020

Top stories

  • UC Davis-Associated Biotech Startups Showcased at Venture Catalyst BIG Event in San Francisco
  • UC Davis Venture Catalyst Knowledge Exchange: Every Idea Has a Story to Tell: How to Get Investors, Partners, and Buyers to Notice You
  • UC Davis Venture Catalyst SBIR/STTR Grant Workshop
  • UC Davis Releases 5 New Wine Grape Varieties
  • Startup Uses Advanced Imaging Technology and Machine Learning to Sort Seeds and Insects
  • UC Davis Selects Development Partner and Accepts Second Award for Aggie Square
  • Davis and Leal Elected Inventor Fellows
  • Spotlight on Energy-Related Innovations from UC Davis Researchers
  • $2.5M to Explore Synthetic Diamond Semiconductors at Crocker Lab

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December 2019

Top stories

  • Witan Law Joins as a Partner in the Venture Catalyst LegalNet Program
  • UC Davis Chancellor, Sacramento Mayor Earn Leadership Award for Aggie Square
  • UC Davis Agricultural Entomologist and Computer Science Students Develop an App for Strawberry Growers
  • What’s in Your Food?
  • Student Startup Center: Inspiring Undergraduate Innovators
  • New Way to Make Dyes From Plant-Based Chemicals
  • Moore Foundation Funds Nurse Leader Fellowship Program at UC Davis

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November 2019

Top stories

  • Venture Catalyst Launches Collaboration with Neuma LLC as a VentureNet Program Partner
  • Three UC Davis-Associated Innovations Recognized at Sacramento Region Innovation Awards
  • EicOsis Receives $15M to Help Fund Human Clinical Trials of Non-opioid Pain Therapy
  • A Breath Test for Opioids
  • Aggie Square Launch Headquarters Opens
  • A Psychology Professor Researches Link Between Memories and Music
  • New $1.5M Institute Will Harness the Data Revolution
  • $7M Grant to Study Cooperative Automated Vehicles in Rural and Multimodal Environments
  • New Law Sponsored by UC Will Allow Commercialization of Discoveries in State Parks
  • Young Investigator Awarded $1 Million for Prostate Cancer Research

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October 2019

Top stories

  • Young Basile is the Newest Partner in the Venture Catalyst VentureNet Program
  • Finalists Named in 4th Annual Sacramento Region Innovation Awards
  • UC Davis Venture Catalyst Knowledge Exchange: Founder Traits and Culture: How to Set Your Startup’s Founding Team Up for Success
  • UC Davis Invests $4 Million to Launch New Research Centers
  • $4M Grant to UC Davis and Drexel Tests Online Tool for Caregivers of Individuals with Dementia
  • Designing a New Class of Drugs to Treat Chronic Pain: UC Davis Researchers Receive $1.5 Million Grant From NIH’s HEAL Initiative
  • Advanced Imaging Puts UC Davis at Forefront of Cancer Treatment for Animals
  • Crocker Nuclear Laboratory to Produce Rare Medical Isotope
  • UC Students Gain New Resources, Opportunities Through Expanded Entrepreneurship Program

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September 2019

Top stories

  • Venture Catalyst Partners with Davis Coworking
  • Bill Tucker Appointed Interim Associate Vice Chancellor for Innovation and Technology Commercialization at UC Davis
  • UC Davis Sustains Research Funding with $845.5 Million in Awards
  • ’18-19 Fundraising 2nd Best in UC Davis History
  • 4 Developers Invited to Submit Aggie Square Proposals and Aggie Square’s Sneak Preview
  • $2.5M to Develop Bioenergy Feedstock Poplar Trees That Can be Grown on Low-Quality Land
  • How Argentina’s Gridx Is Building Foodtech and Agtech Companies with Backing from Billionaires
  • Two UC Davis Health Pathologists Named Among the Nation’s Top 100 Industry Trailblazers

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August 2019

Top stories

  • Significant Three-Year Impact from Innovation and Entrepreneurship Expansion Initiatives
  • Venture Catalyst Knowledge Exchange: Setting Your Company Up for Success in Any Due Diligence Process
  • Venture Catalyst SBIR/STTR Knowledge Exchange: Opportunity to Hear from NCI Program Director
  • UC Davis Partners With DEA-Approved Company to Conduct Cannabis Research
  • Faculty Spotlight: Marc Facciotti from the University of California-Davis
  • Recognizing Kidney Injury Due to Burns Is Improved by Artificial Intelligence
  • U.S. News Ranks UC Davis Medical Center #1 in Sacramento

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July 2019

Top stories

  • 14 New Startups Emerge From UC Davis Innovations
  • UC Davis Undergraduate Teams Awarded Grants by VentureWell
  • Robot “Tastes” its Environment Using Engineered Bacteria
  • UC Davis Releases 5 New Strawberry Varieties
  • EXPLORER, a UC Davis Imaging Breakthrough, Makes a Splash
  • UC Davis Stands Out in World University Rankings

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June 2019

Top stories

  • UC Davis STAIR Grant Awards Over $400K to Advance Innovations Towards Commercialization
  • UC Davis Honors Recipients of 2019 Chancellor’s Innovation Awards
  • Innovation in Health Care Tops UC Davis Business Competition
  • Venture Catalyst Knowledge Exchange: From Prototypes to Products: Developing Your Medical Device with Commercialization in Mind
  • Synthetic Version of CBD Treats Seizures in Rats
  • Chancellor Leads Delegation in France
  • Metals Influence C-Peptide Hormone Related to Insulin
  • $9M Grant from NIH for New Center to Develop Safe Genome Editing Tools
  • Department of Defense Grant Will Support Novel Bladder Cancer Treatment Research
  • Artificial Intelligence Tool Scales up Alzheimer’s Research
  • UC Davis Unveils Preliminary Design and Issues RFQ for Aggie Square

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May 2019

Top stories

  • RePurpose Energy Wins Big Ideas Contest
  • Connecting the Future: How a UC Davis Invention Helped Build Broadband Communications
  • UC Davis Venture Catalyst Knowledge Exchange: Startup Financial Modeling – Why and How
  • The Answer to the Opioid Crisis? UC Davis Researcher to Test His Non-Addictive Pain Drug
  • Students Design Greenhouse for Mars
  • John Boone Earns Top Honor From American Association of Physicists in Medicine
  • State Awards $8.8 Million to UC Davis for Alzheimer’s Disease Research
  • New Institute Eyes HOME in Deep Space
  • Allen Van Deynze Receives Excellence in Research Award
  • Professor Who Merges Technology and Design Receives STEM Grant
  • BIG Ideas: UCD Undergrad Research Lab Launches
  • UC Davis Names New Dean for School of Medicine
  • Ronald Elected to National Academy of Sciences
  • Oncology Startup Seeking to Close $3 Million Seed Round
  • UC Davis Unveils Preliminary Design for Aggie Square

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April 2019

Top stories

  • Neurologic Disease Research at UC Davis Contributes to First Treatment Specifically Approved for Postpartum Depression
  • Japa, Inc. Wins Capitalize Grand Prize
  • UC Davis Venture Catalyst Knowledge Exchange: Utilizing Target Product Profiles to Accelerate Medical and Biopharma Product Commercialization
  • UC Davis Venture Catalyst SBIR/STTR Grant Workshop
  • UC Davis Connects with Industry Leaders at World Agri-Tech Innovation Summit
  • Plant Bio Grad Student Katie Murphy Named UC Davis Grad Slam Champ
  • Meet UC Davis’ CZI Imaging Scientist
  • UC Drug Discovery Consortium Announces First Partnership
  • Computer Scientists Create Programmable Self-Assembling DNA
  • Mars Cocoa Hub Means More Partnerships with UCD Researchers
  • UC Davis Graduate, Professional Programs Shine in New U.S. News Rankings
  • Automated Shuttle Comes to UC Davis West Village

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March 2019

Top stories

  • Two UC Davis-Associated Startups Make It Into the Final-Four Round of the Capitalize Contest
  • Three New Partners Join Venture Catalyst STAIR Grant Program
  • UC Davis Venture Catalyst Knowledge Exchange: How to Find the Right Office/Lab Space for Your Startup
  • 2019 Innovation + Entrepreneurship Conference
  • UC Davis Collaborates With IBM in Aggie Square Launch Facility
  • Psychedelic Microdosing in Rats Shows Beneficial Effects
  • Breeding a Better Strawberry
  • California Hemp Corporation Enters Sponsored Research Agreement with UC Davis Utilizing Benson Hill’s CropOS™ to Optimize Breed in Industrial Hemp
  • UC Davis School of Medicine Recognized as Research University Powerhouse
  • Osage University Partners Closes Oversubscribed $273 Million Third Venture Fund for University Startups

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February 2019

Top stories

  • Nomination Period for the Innovator of the Year Award Open Through March 11, 2019
  • STAIR Grant Application Window Open Through March 5, 2019
  • UC Davis Venture Catalyst Knowledge Exchange: Defending Against Intellectual Property Theft and Economic Espionage
  • Kings will Pay $10,000 to Winner of Capitalize Startup Competition
  • Optical Technology Inventor Elected to National Academy of Engineering
  • Explorer Team Selected by Physics World as One of the Top 10 Breakthroughs in 2018
  • UC Davis Microbiome Special Research Program Awards Seed Funding to Seven Collaborative Research Projects
  • Robot-Assisted Throat Cancer Surgery Gets Assist from Novel Optical Device
  • Anti-Inflammatory Compound Protects Against Cancer Growth and Recurrence
  • Muir Institute Leads UC Project to Find Shovel-Ready Solutions for Carbon Sequestration
  • Hacker Lab is On the Move

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January 2019

Top stories

  • Venture Catalyst Biotech Innovation Gallery (BIG) Showcase: Ten Exciting Biopharma Startups Pitch to Investors in San Francisco at JP Morgan Healthcare Conference
  • UC Davis Venture Catalyst Knowledge Exchange: Building Successful University Startups
  • IndieBio Biotech Entrepreneur Panel
  • Rice Plants That Reproduce as Clones From Seed
  • Three Hundred Blind Mice Uncover Genetic Causes of Eye Disease
  • Almond Board Funds UC Davis Research on Cultivating Larvae as Animal Feed

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December 2018

Top stories

  • Student Team Wins Amazon Alexa Artificial Intelligence Challenge
  • UC Davis Venture Catalyst Knowledge Exchange: How Venture Capitalists Evaluate Entrepreneurs
  • New TMCR Annual Report and Venture Catalyst Infographic Available for Download
  • International Consortium Officially Launches Earth BioGenome Project in London
  • Seed Central Networking Tech Showcase
  • Human Images From World’s First Total-Body Scanner Unveiled
  • Dogs, Cats Rescued From California Camp Fire Heal With Fish Skins
  • UC Davis Takes 10 Electric Cars on Extended Test Drive
  • UC Davis Key Research Partner for World Agri-Tech Innovation Summit

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November 2018

Top stories

  • Winners Named in 3rd Annual Sacramento Region Innovation Awards: UC Davis-Affiliated Innovations Win in Five of the Eight Categories
  • UC Davis Venture Catalyst Knowledge Exchange: Building the Right Medical Device Product and Company
  • UC Davis Venture Catalyst Welcomes Eva Garland Consulting as the Newest Partner in the VentureNet Program
  • Biotech Program’s ‘Dr. Judy’ Wins Meyer Award
  • UC Davis Selects Global Plant Genetics, Ltd. for Strawberry Licensing in Europe, Mediterranean and South America
  • UC Davis Health’s Clinical Trials Directory Recognized Among Most Innovative at Global Clinical Research Summit
  • Credit Rating Agencies Respond Rationally to Risk From R&D Investment, Study Finds
  • Comprehensive Cancer Center Receives $6.3 Million to Address Disparities for Latinos, Asians and Blacks
  • Gene Network Lets Plant Roots Handle Nitrogen
  • Downy Mildew Research to Benefit Lettuce Growers and Consumers

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October 2018

Top stories

  • Finalists Named in 3rd Annual Sacramento Region Innovation Awards
  • UC Davis Venture Catalyst Knowledge Exchange: Interacting with the FDA – Tips for How to Prepare and Engage Effectively
  • Venture Catalyst and Internship & Career Center Launch the TAP Program
  • UC Davis Sets Record With $846.7 Million in Research Funding
  • UC Davis Pathologist Competes for Global Cancer Advancement Award
  • Higher Levels of Bifidobacteria in the Infant Gut Associated with Lower Antibiotic Resistance
  • Minibrains Move a Step Closer to Helping Patients
  • UC Davis Releases 10-Year Strategic Plan

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September 2018

Top stories

  • Innovation & Entrepreneurship Expansion Initiative Enabled by AB 2664 Funding Continue to Show Early Signs of Impact
  • UC Davis Venture Catalyst SBIR/STTR Grant Workshop: Using SBIR/STTR Funding to Advance Technology Development
  • UC Davis Venture Catalyst Knowledge Exchange: Tips for NIH Funding, IND Submissions, and Advancing Therapeutic Development Timelines
  • Transforming the Food System Through Strategic Partnerships in “Moonshots for Better Food”
  • Can We Grow One of the World’s Largest Food Crops Without Fertilizer?
  • Artificial Cells Are Tiny Bacteria Fighters
  • On a Mission: $12 Million State Appropriation Earmarked for Jordan’s Syndrome
  • UC Davis Received Top Rankings
  • UCOP Opens Innovation and Entrepreneurship Office in Beijing, China

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August 2018

Top stories

  • Record Number of UC Davis Startups for 2017-18
  • Commercialization of Innovative Treatments Aided by STAIR Plus Grants
  • UC Davis Venture Catalyst Knowledge Exchange: Tips for NIH Funding, IND Submissions, and Advancing Therapeutic Development Timelines
  • TechAccel Announces UC Davis STAIR Grant Award for Novel Gene Editing Approach
  • BASF and UC Davis Collaborating to Unlock New Potential in Human Milk Oligosaccharides
  • UC Davis Researcher Receives $1.5 Million Grant to Develop DNA-Based Semiconductors
  • NIH Renews UC Davis Health’s Clinical Research Work in Neurological Disorders
  • UC Davis to Lead National Cow Genomics Effort
  • Dean’s Fellowships in Entrepreneurship, Informatics and Precision Medicine Announced
  • The Big Ideas

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July 2018

Top stories

  • UC Davis STAIR and DIAL Grant Recipients Developing Breakthrough Technologies
  • UC Davis Chancellor Selects Prasant Mohapatra as Vice Chancellor for Research
  • REMINDER: Sacramento Region Innovation Awards Nominations
  • UC Davis Venture Catalyst SBIR/STTR Knowledge Exchange
  • Cummins Announces Acquisition of EDI – UC Davis Hybrid-Electric Drivetrain Technology Pioneering Spinoff
  • UC Davis and Intel Sign Patent Licensing Arrangement
  • Bifidobacteria Supplement Colonizes Gut of Breastfed Infants
  • UC Davis Wine, Food, and Entrepreneurship Institutes Announce New Directors
  • UC Davis Aggie Square Planning Gets Funding From Governor Brown and State Legislature
  • UC Davis to Lead National Cow Genomics Effort

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June 2018

Top stories

  • Innovations in Parking, Digital Medicines Top UC Davis Business Competition
  • Sacramento Region Innovation Awards Nominations
  • Sage Therapeutics Announces FDA Acceptance of NDA Filing and Grant of Priority Review for Brexanolone IV in the Treatment of Postpartum Depression
  • Evolve BioSystems Announces $40 Million Series C Financing to Expand its Flagship Infant Probiotic Product Evivo
  • Calling All UC Student Innovators! – Innovation Ambassadors Program
  • Meet the 2018 Big Ideas Award Winners!
  • Venture Catalyst Knowledge Exchange: Getting Your Startup Funded
  • Psychedelic Drugs Change Structure of Neurons
  • Arabica Coffee Genome Sequenced
  • UC Davis Chancellor May Appoints David A. Lubarsky as Vice Chancellor of Human Health Sciences, CEO of UC Davis Health System
  • UC Davis Chancellor Appoints Robert Segar as Aggie Square Planning Director
  • UC Davis Climbs in World Rankings

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May 2018

Top stories

  • UC Davis Innovators Honored for Contributions in Agriculture, Pathology
  • Venture Catalyst Knowledge Exchange: What the Beatles Can Teach Us About Intellectual Property Strategy
  • Lebrilla Wins Senate Research Award
  • New Technology for Measuring Brain Blood Flow with Light
  • Vasopressin, a Possible Biomarker for Social Deficits in Autism
  • UC Davis Becomes Only Veterinary Hospital in the World with a Volumetric PET Scanner
  • UC Davis World Food Center Relaunches
  • Earth BioGenome Project Aims to Sequence DNA From All Complex Life
  • UC Davis Signs Agreement with Australian National Science Organization to Enhance Global Cross-Disciplinary Research

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April 2018

Top stories

  • Bayer Collaborates with UC Davis Venture Catalyst to Support Regional Innovation and Entrepreneurship
  • UC Davis Venture Catalyst R&D Outsourcing and SBIR Workshops
  • Venture Catalyst and the Tech Futures Group Have Partnered to Expand Advising Services for Technology Companies
  • Innovation Institute for Food and Health (IIFH) 2018 Innovation Summit
  • Wonder Women
  • Mayor Steinberg, Chancellor May, Assemblyman McCarty Unveil Aggie Square Site
  • Science of the Lambs: We Can Now Grow Human Cells in Sheep
  • Primo “Lucky” Lara named UC Davis Comprehensive Cancer Center Director
  • Katia Vega Shares Award for Biomedical Tattoos

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March 2018

Top stories

  • Collaboration Between UC Davis Foods for Health Institute and Spin-off Company Evolve BioSystems Identifies Detrimental Generational Change in Gut Bacteria of Infants
  • Ingensity IP is the Newest Partner in the Venture Catalyst VentureNet Program
  • Izotropic Files for Initial Public Offering (IPO) on CSE
  • UC Davis Spinoff Acquired by TDK Corporation
  • TechAccel Makes Further Pledge to the UC Davis Venture Catalyst STAIR Grant Program
  • TechAccel Initiates Protein Engineering Project with UC Davis to Improve Wheat Yield
  • UC Davis Leads World in Veterinary Science
  • UC Davis School of Medicine Ranks in Top 20% of Institutions in the Country for Research Funding From the NIH
  • Efficient Technique Discovered for Isolating Embryonic Stem Cells in Cows

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February 2018

Top stories

  • Startup Receives FDA Clearance for Polymer to Aid Bone Regrowth
  • Collaboration Between Science Exchange and UC Davis Venture Catalyst
  • Announcing 2017-18 STAIR and DIAL Grants
  • 2018 Chancellor’s Innovation Awards Accepting Nominations
  • UC Davis Venture Catalyst Knowledge Exchange: Platform Translational Science
  • Sacramento Kings CAPITALIZE Accepting Applications
  • HaneyBiz: If You Build It, They Will Come – with Dushyant Pathak
  • Seeds of Innovation
  • SmartFarm: Creating the Farm and Farmworkers of the Future
  • Earth BioGenome Project to Sequence All Life
  • California Energy Alliance Code Change Proposal Accepted
  • How Colleges Can ‘De-Risk’ Innovation

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January 2018

Top stories

  • Inventopia Incubator to Host an Open House to Showcase its Alpha Site
  • UC Davis Licenses Technology for Miniaturized System That Can Detect Chemicals With High Specificity and Sensitivity
  • Fresh Citrus at Risk From Devastating Disease
  • Laura Marcu Named National Academy of Inventors Fellow
  • Sacramento Mayor Darrell Steinberg and UC Davis Chancellor Gary S. May Announce Joint Working Group to Shape Expanded University Presence in Sacramento Region
  • Biotechnology Program at UC Davis Has Been Connecting Students with Industry for 20 Years
  • New Grant Funds Study of Immune Cell Activity in Stem Cell Transplantation
  • UC Davis Energy and Efficiency Institute: New Name, Enhanced Focus

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December 2017

Top stories

  • New Program Connects University-Affiliated Startups with Research and Development Resources Available Through Campus Labs and Facilities
  • AB 2664 Innovation Funds Show Early Signs of Impact at UC Davis
  • Microscope That Uses Ultraviolet Instead of Visible Light Emerging as Powerful Diagnostic Tool
  • Certus Critical Care wins UCSF Pediatric Device Accelerator Award
  • Urban Hive Starts Buzzing in New Digs at The Cannery
  • Limits to Launch
  • Gene Discovery May Halt Worldwide Wheat Epidemic
  • UC Davis Researchers Test Drug that May Reverse Symptoms of Autism
  • $1.7 Million for Climate-Resilient Agricultural Research
  • UC Davis Establishes Alliance of Excellence in Biophotonics with German Leibniz Institute for Photonic Technologies
  • Genome of Wheat Ancestor Sequenced
  • UC Davis Beta Lab Studies ‘Maker Movement’ in Youth
  • Seed Central Tech Showcase

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November 2017

Top stories

  • UC Davis Recognized as Innovation of the Year Honoree in Annual Awards
  • Digital Medicines You’ll Want to Take!
  • Grape Rootstocks Resistant to Nematodes Released for Commercialization in Europe
  • ‘Daylight Harvesting’ Technology Licensed to PLC Multipoint
  • UC Davis Sponsored Research Funding Increases to $783 Million
  • Crowdsourced Game Aims to Find Solutions to Aflatoxin
  • Mitigating Climate Change with Mud? UC Davis Team Chosen as Part of Resilient by Design’s Bay Area Challenge
  • Helping Water Utilities Reduce California’s Energy Use and Emissions
  • Moonshot Grant Advances Immune Therapy for Dogs – and One Day for People With Cancer
  • Wells Fargo Commits $500,000 Over Four Years to UC Davis Energy Efficiency Center
  • Bidding opens on California Million Lamp Challenge for LED Retrofits
  • Taking the World’s Best Veterinary Care to the Next Level
  • UC Launches New Campaign for Alumni Entrepreneurs and Innovators

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October 2017

Top stories

  • New UC Davis Startups Tackle Complex Problems
  • HM.CLAUSE and UC Davis Venture Catalyst Extend Commitment to Support Early-Stage Startups
  • UC Davis Venture Catalyst Partners with Inventopia on a New Business Incubator in Davis
  • Amazon Web Services Now Part of UC Davis Venture Catalyst VentureNet Program
  • UC Davis to be Honored and University-Affiliated Startups to be Recognized at the 2017 Sacramento Region Innovation Awards on November 7
  • UC Davis Venture Catalyst Knowledge Exchange: How to Grow A Startup – The Foolproof Formula for Finding Product-Market Fit
  • UC Davis Maintains Top-10 Ranking in Annual College Poll
  • UC Davis Receives $8 Million to Expand Access to Stem Cell Clinical Trials
  • $3.3 Million Grant Funds Early Detection of Pancreatic Cancer
  • UC Davis Biomaker Space: A Unique Model in Biotechnology Education

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September 2017

Top stories

  • UC Davis Venture Catalyst Partners with The Urban Hive and I/O Labs to Build a More Robust Regional Innovation Network
  • Brave New Medicine: How an Enzyme Created with Synthetic DNA May Enable the First Treatment for Celiac Disease
  • Stem Cell Treatment for Children With Spina Bifida Helps Dogs First
  • High-Frequency Chip Brings Researchers Closer to Next Generation Technology
  • $4.5 Million Grant Funds New Disease-Resistant Strawberries
  • CDC Supports UC Researchers in Fighting Vector-Borne Diseases
  • Tracking Down the Jumping Genes of Maize
  • UC Davis Launches Microbiome Initiative to Leverage Expertise across Campus
  • Eat Fat, Live Longer? Mouse Study Shows a Ketogenic Diet Increases Longevity, Strength
  • Sautter IT Awards: ‘Putting Youth on the Map’ Wins Gold
  • Elsevier, Inc. and UC Davis Partner on Data Science Initiatives
  • UC Davis Betters Top-10 Ranking for ‘Public Good’

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August 2017

Top stories

  • UC Davis Venture Catalyst Expands Program to Accelerate Technology Commercialization with STAIR-Plus Grants
  • Chancellor Gary S. May Takes Office
  • Boot Camp for Startups: Hacker Lab Sheds Light on New Business Ideas with Startup Hustle
  • Medical Imaging Technology Could Light the Way to Better Wine
  • Neural Stem Cells Steered by Electric Fields in Rat Brain
  • Apps for Ag Hackathon Winner Uses Artificial Intelligence to Diagnose Plant Problems
  • Wilbur Curtis Co. Supports UC Davis Coffee Center
  • UC Davis Launches Microbiome Initiative to Leverage Expertise Across Campus
  • $3M Program to Integrate Science and Policymaking in Ocean Research
  • The University of California System Honored for Environmental, Economic Leadership

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July 2017

Top stories

  • High-Visibility Representation for UC Davis at Biotechnology Innovation Organization (BIO) International Convention
  • Nine Grants, Totaling $328,000, Awarded to Help Campus Innovators Advance Research and Technology Towards Commercialization
  • UC Davis Venture Catalyst Knowledge Exchange: Insights on Financing for Early Stage Startups
  • These UC Davis Students Are Using Science To Change Food Waste Forever
  • 2017 Sacramento Region Innovation Awards
  • Artificial Cartilage Under Tension as Strong as Natural
  • Neurodegenerative Disease Mechanism and Potential Drug Identified: Offers Hope for Patients with Friedreich’s Ataxia and Related Diseases
  • Mice Provide Insight Into Genetics of Autism Spectrum Disorders
  • Mouse Genome Studies Underscore Value of Gene-Modified Mice in Medical Research
  • Sacramento Mayor Visits UC Davis Chancellor-Designate Gary May and Georgia Tech’s Technology Square
  • Wine’s Newest Bouquet has Hints of Berries — and Data

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June 2017

Top stories

  • Pianist, Wheat Geneticist Recipients of 2017 Innovator of the Year Award
  • Poet, Software Pioneer Receive UC Davis Innovation Awards
  • Knowledge Exchange: Virtual Drug Discovery – Doing Good Science with Cost Efficiency
  • Food, Ag and Social Enterprise Innovations Make a Big Bang!
  • Hacker Lab Developing Network to Help Maker Spaces Share Resources
  • 2017 Sacramento Region Innovation Awards
  • California National Primate Research Center Successfully Demonstrates Gene Editing in Nonhuman Primates
  • Hitting Cancer with High-Intensity Ultrasound and Immunotherapy
  • Will Future Cars Be Driverless, Electric, and Shared? UC Davis Leading in Research and Policy Engagement Around the Three Transportation Revolutions
  • Cell Biologist Jodi Nunnari Elected to National Academy of Sciences
  • 7 Challenges for Achieving Global Food Security
  • UC Davis to Have Visible Presence at the 2017 BIO International Convention in San Diego

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May 2017

Top stories

  • UC Davis Signs Agreement to License Novel CT Scanning Technology
  • Startup Uses Friendly Chat Bot Named Wazlo to Connect Workers with Employers
  • UC Davis DryCard Invention Wins Competition to Reduce Food Loss in Africa
  • FourthWave’s Fabulous First Cohort Launches with Community Dinner & Celebration
  • Sweet Victory: UC Davis Wins Big-Money Strawberry Fight
  • Grant to Model Human Memory and Learning for Machines
  • HDL Composition May Help Predict Health Risks and Design Therapeutics
  • Pigeon Study Takes on Sexism in Science
  • UC Davis Associate Vice Chancellor of Research Dushyant Pathak to Lead Panel on Technologies for a Sustainable Future at 2017 BIO International Convention

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April 2017

Top stories

  • Nominations Still Open for 2017 UC Davis Chancellor’s Innovation Awards
  • Hacker Lab Wins SlingShot Grant and Seeks Maker and Entrepreneur in Residence
  • Tiny Black Holes Enable a New Type of Photodetector for High-Speed Data
  • UC Davis Startup Career Fair
  • UC Davis Associate Vice Chancellor of Research Dushyant Pathak to Lead Panel on Technologies for a Sustainable Future at 2017 BIO International Convention
  • UCD’s New GSM Dean: A Conversation with Rao Unnava
  • Developing New Collaborations and Technologies: NSF Funds University-Industry Biophotonic Sensors Research
  • Breeding Crops Today for an Uncertain Tomorrow
  • Boosting a Baby’s Health During the ‘Golden Window’
  • Light the Way You Were Meant to See It
  • Central Valley Needs Crop of University Graduates
  • UC Davis Tops World Rankings in Veterinary Science
  • UC Davis Tops World Rankings in Agricultural Economics and Policy

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March 2017

Top stories

  • UC Davis Spinouts and Affiliated Companies Featured Prominently in Capitalize Contest
  • Regents Confirm Gary May as Chancellor
  • UC Davis Venture Catalyst Knowledge Exchange: The Series A Preferred Stock Financing – Practical Tips and Strategies for Success
  • Venture Catalyst and Center for Biophotonic Sensors and Systems Event: NSF Programs for Innovation and Commercialization
  • Ultrasound: Can Chirp Usurp UI?
  • The Robotic Stomach
  • UC Davis, Larta launch Ag Innovation Showcase
  • Two Elected to National Academy of Engineering
  • The Chemical Engineer Who’ll School You on Coffee
  • Technology Hits The Fields
  • Silicon Valley Thought Leaders Buoy ‘I am a UC Entrepreneur’ Campaign

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February 2017

Top stories

  • UC Davis Licenses Novel Compound that Helps Stem Cells Regenerate Bone to Treat Bone Diseases
  • UC Davis Venture Catalyst Kicks Off STAIR and DIAL (New in 2017) Grant Programs
  • UCD’s Hack Davis Returns
  • Third Annual Make-A-Thon Looks Blindness in the Eye
  • UC Davis Venture Catalyst Knowledge Exchange: Just Do It – The Number One Cause of Startup Failure is Failing to Start
  • Agtech Startups Seek Venture Capital Investment, Advice at UC Davis Event
  • KeckCAVES Virtual Reality Software Now for Gaming Headsets
  • Drug Developed in UC Davis Lab Holds Promise for Prevention of Alzheimer’s
  • The Most Viral UC Research of 2016
  • UC Davis Food Science Speed Networking and NCIFT Student Recognition Banquet
  • Are You a UC Entrepreneur?

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January 2017

Top stories

  • $2.2 Million in State Funds to Enhance Entrepreneurship and Innovation
  • From Lab to Launch: UC Davis Churns out Startups by Giving its Researchers a Chance to Mix with — and Think Like — Entrepreneurs
  • UC Davis Companies Present at Seed Central Event
  • Two UC Davis-Affiliated Startups Win in Big Bang! Poster Competition
  • Takeda and PvP Biologics Announce Development Agreement around Novel Therapeutic for Celiac Disease
  • Top Grade Health Care Selects UC Davis for Location of R&D Center
  • New $9.7 Million Grant Funds Search for Wheat-Yield Genes
  • UC Davis Receives $14 Million Federal Grant for Sustainable Transportation Research
  • UC Davis MIND Institute Part of National Study on Video Game-Like Therapy for ADHD
  • Simon Cherry Named to National Academy of Inventors
  • Sierra Nevada Brewing Owners Give $2 Million to UC Davis Brewing Program
  • UC Davis Launches Advanced Degree Program in Data Analytics
  • CLSI’s FAST Life Science Accelerator Announces Statewide Expansion
  • National Recognition for Plant Breeder Van Deynze
  • Scientists Test Solutions for Energy-Efficient Grow Houses

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December 2016

Top stories

  • UC Davis Venture Catalyst Expands DRIVE Network
  • 2015-16 Technology Management & Corporate Relations Report
  • Impact Global Venture Summit Highlights Sacramento Region Startups
  • Calling all UC Entrepreneurs: The University of California Wants to Shine a Light on Your Story
  • Hacker Lab Looking to Grow in Sacramento, Rocklin
  • New Innovator in Food and Agriculture
  • New UC Davis Business Dean Looks to Strengthen Ties with Sacramento
  • UC Davis Opens ‘Big Bang’ Business Competition to the Public
  • Realignment Announced for UC Davis World Food Center and Affiliated Programs

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November 2016

Top stories

  • UC Davis Affiliated Startups Win in Four of Six Categories at Sacramento Region Innovation Awards
  • UC Davis Receives $760 Million in Sponsored Research Funding
  • UC Davis Venture Catalyst Knowledge Exchange: Tips for NIH Funding, IND Submissions, and Advancing Therapeutic Development Timelines
  • First in World for Plant and Animal Sciences
  • I/O Labs, Hacker Lab Among Recommended Winners for City Innovation Grants
  • University Research Park Deal Improves Davis’s Business Reputation, Locals Say
  • UC Davis and BASF Announce Collaboration on Development of New Microencapsulation Technology
  • UC Davis Center Receives $10 Million to Continue Improving Ag Health and Safety
  • New Animal Diagnostic Lab Dedicated in California’s Ag Heartland
  • Genomics Breakthrough Paves Way for Climate-Tolerant Wine Grape Varieties

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October 2016

Top stories

  • Seven UC Davis Companies are Finalists for Sacramento Region Innovation Awards
  • Pathlog Joins the UC Davis Venture Catalyst DRIVE Incubator Network
  • New Collaboration between UC Davis Venture Catalyst and the ASUCD Entrepreneurship Fund
  • Two UC Davis Venture Catalyst START Participants Join the IndieBio Accelerator
  • Carbahal & Company and ESIS Partner with UC Davis Venture Catalyst
  • State Invests $22 Million in UC Entrepreneurship, Innovation to Drive California Economy
  • Alzheimer’s Disease Center Grant Renewed
  • Sierra Energy Expands Investment in Community Resources for Entrepreneurs
  • California Virologist Uses Lessons Learned From HIV To Develop Zika Drug
  • Big Bang! Business Competition Kick-Off
  • Essential Mouse Genes Could Guide Human Precision Medicine

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September 2016

Top stories

  • 14 New Startups Launched in 2015-16: New Companies Tackle Range of Scientific, Medical, and Societal Problems
  • Silicon Valley Bank Partners with UC Davis Venture Catalyst
  • Osage University Partners’ Lou Berneman to speak at UC Davis Venture Catalyst Knowledge Exchange
  • AstRoNA and MiraculeX Joined the UC Davis Venture Catalyst DRIVETM Incubator Network
  • UC Davis Helps Study Fork-to- Farm Fertilizer
  • Peet’s Coffee Pledges $250,000 to Advance Coffee Research
  • Now in its 15th year, CITRIS Has Become a Forerunner of Information Technology Research and Entrepreneurship in the Interest of Society
  • Small Entrepreneurial Ag Firms Jump-Started by AgStart
  • New Velux Skylight Demonstrated at CLTC
  • Washington Monthly Puts UC Davis in Top 10 for Public Service
  • Nation’s First State-Funded Firearm Violence Research Center to be Established at UC Davis

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August 2016

Top stories

  • From Ideas to Innovation with STAIR Grants
  • First Northern Bank Partners with UC Davis Venture Catalyst
  • Osage University Partners’ Lou Berneman to speak at UC Davis Venture Catalyst Knowledge Exchange
  • Young Tech Entrepreneurs Take Bite Out of Hunger
  • Sautter IT Awards for Pair of UC Davis Projects
  • Apps for Ag Hackathon Winners Announced
  • Research Matters at UC Davis
  • Bizarre Bacteria Causing Major Cattle Disease Genetically Characterized by UC Davis Researchers

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July 2016

Top stories

  • UC Davis is First UC Campus to Gain APLU Designation as an Innovation and Economic Prosperity University
  • 2016 UC Davis Chancellor’s Innovation Awards
  • Nominations Being Accepted for 2016 Sacramento Region Innovation Awards
  • UC Davis Research Investments in Science & Engineering (RISE) Program Report Released
  • “Digital Neurotherapeutic” Being Developed by Professor at the UC Davis MIND Institute
  • New Grant Further Solidifies UC Davis’ Leadership Role in Translational Biomedical Research
  • The Northern California Megaregion: Innovative, Connected, and Growing Report Released
  • UC Children’s Hospitals Rank Among Nation’s Best

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June 2016

Top stories

  • Strong presence for UC Davis at Biotechnology Innovation Organization (BIO) International Convention
  • Renowned Artist and Professor Emeritus receives UC Davis Chancellor’s Lifetime Achievement Award for Innovation
  • Sacramento Region Innovation Awards 2016
  • Biomedical and Engineering Entrepreneurship Academy
  • Biomedical innovations take top prizes in Big Bang! competition
  • Economic Development Series: The University and the future of economic development in Davis
  • Economic Development Series: UCD vows to continue aggressive efforts to drive expansion and diversification of region’s economy
  • Davis Roots’ new director to focus on outreach, efficiency, collaboration
  • Cancer drug tested at UC Davis offers new hope for patients
  • Area 52 to launch local startups
  • 30 Under 30: The University of California Global Food Initiative Awards

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May 2016

Top stories

  • UC Davis Venture Catalyst welcomes Enzigen to its incubator
  • 6 Ways UC Davis is supporting and promoting the commercialization of agtech startups
  • UC Davis Venture Catalyst to hold Knowledge Exchange on keys to a successful pitch
  • UC Davis teams receive prestigious CITRIS awards for innovation in human health
  • UC Davis Comprehensive Cancer Center earns new quality certification
  • Teaching math with computer programming can help narrow achievement gap
  • Industry upbeat about new UC Davis strawberry breeding research

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April 2016

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  • UC Davis Introduces Chancellor’s Innovation Awards
  • UC Davis Venture Catalyst partners with TechAccel to expand STAIR Grant program for campus entrepreneurs
  • Stoel Rives LLP partners with UC Davis Venture Catalyst
  • UC Davis Venture Catalyst launches the Knowledge Exchange
  • How Alzheimer’s caregivers use enhanced music to recover lost memories
  • 3-D printing opens up new dimension for UC Davis surgeons
  • Two UC Davis efforts get state regenerative-medicine grants
  • Fellows of the National Academy of Inventors Inducted at United States Patent and Trademark Office
  • Seventeen labs designated as campus research core facilities at UC Davis

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March 2016

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  • Science Translation and Innovative Research (STAIR™) Grant: 2015-16
  • UC Davis Partners with Sacramento Business Incubator Hacker Lab
  • Awards Foster Collaboration Between UC Davis, São Paulo Research Foundation
  • UC Davis and Area 52 Establish a New Business Incubator in Davis
  • Downey Brand Partners with UC Davis Venture Catalyst
  • Chemical Discovered at UC Davis May Be New Tool for Depression Therapy
  • Novel UC Davis Technology Has the Potential to Revolutionize the Multibillion Dollar Strawberry Industry
  • Best Newcomer Award at the World AgTech Investor Summit

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February 2016

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  • Spring SBIR Grant Workshop Kicks Off on February 22
  • ARIZ Precision Medicine Joined the UC Davis Venture Catalyst DRIVE™ Network
  • Cat Stem Cell Therapy Gives Humans Hope
  • Two UC Davis Venture Catalyst START™ Participants Join the IndieBio Accelerator
  • 13 UC Davis Discoveries That Changed Our World

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January 2016

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  • Spring SBIR Grant Workshop Registration is Now Open
  • Anpac Bio-Medical Science Pledges $50,000 to UC Davis Child Family Institute for Innovation and Entrepreneurship

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December 2015

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  • Venture Catalyst Introduces a New Market Research Service
  • Venture Catalyst to Host a Spring Federal Grant Workshop Series
  • Velocity Venture Capital Entrepreneurs Showcase Demo Day panel included Associate Vice Chancellor Dushyant Pathak
  • New Fabric Opens Air Vents with Workout Sweat
  • National Academy of Inventors and UC Davis Announce NAI Fellows
  • UC Investments Will Anchor Fund Led by Vivek Ranadivé to Invest in UC Innovation

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November 2015

Top stories

  • 2014-15 Technology Management & Corporate Relations Report
  • UC Davis Helps Startup Raise $9M in Investment
  • Associate Vice Chancellor Dushyant Pathak Begins Volunteer Leadership at the Association of Public & Land Grant Universities
  • Venture Catalyst Hosts Federal Grant Workshop

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