Last Updated: October 15, 2024 2:30:55 PM PDT
UC San Diego retained its status among the top funded and most ambitious research institutions in the world. In fiscal year 2024 (FY24), total awards and gifts amounted to $1.73 billion, reflecting a robust research funding environment. Among our innovation efforts, OIC worked with UC San Diego researchers, community members and industry partners to support 28 new startups. Meanwhile, Research Compliance and Integrity smoothly handled an uptick in almost every performance area as they prepared for widespread changes required by new federal regulations. And despite significant turnover and a reassessment of strategic processes, Research Development successfully managed the Chancellor’s Interdisciplinary Team Catalyst Award and supported 39 proposals seeking over $317 million. Within all these numbers there is much nuance, most notably, ups and downs due to fluctuations in federal funding sources among grants and economic factors affecting venture capital opportunities in innovation.
OCGA FY24 Q1-Q4 Awards Total: $1.73 billion
Office of Innovation and Commercialization FY24
Entrepreneurship Center is home to 28 incredible startups
The Basement and Triton Startup accelerator and incubator programs continue to foster entrepreneurial ventures, offering co-working spaces, collaboration opportunities and resources.
A few examples:
- ReBlood Rx LLC, a biotech firm focused on blood cell preservation, which is currently raising $1.25 million due to increased demand in the veterinary market.
- Billion Labs Inc., which develops health monitoring solutions utilizing smartphone technology to expand medical device accessibility.
Image: Prototype of a blood pressure monitoring attachment
2,000+ OIC Community Members and Students served
A few examples:
- Maria Charles, a ’24 alumna with a degree in Pharmacological Chemistry and International Business, founded Marai, a portable menstrual stain remover in The Basement, and was a finalist at Big Bang! Business Competition at UC Davis.
- Isabella Cai, founder of Y Montessori, a woman-run startup in the Talent Foundry and a resident at the DIB. Y Montessori simplifies the school search process with Montopia, a data-powered platform available on the Google Play Store.
- Paulina Laba, a ’24 alumna in Business/Managerial Economics, founded Lockpod and won 1st Place at The Basement’s Demo Day after developing her idea with Blackstone Launchpad, ICorps Incubator and StartR. Lockpod enhances bicycle security and promotes accessible transit.
Research Development
Chancellor’s Interdisciplinary Team Catalyst Award
- Bridging Expertise: Catalyzing AI & ML for Equity, Education, and Knowledge Mobilization, led by Alan Daly and Parinaz Naghizadeh in the Departments of Education Studies and Electrical and Computer Engineering Department
- Building Cross-Campus Capacity to Reduce HIV and Other Health-Related Disparities among Individuals Experiencing Homelessness in San Diego County, a collaboration between investigators from the UC San Diego HIV Neurobehavioral Research Program and the Homeless Hub led by David Moore, Mirle Rabinowitz Bussell
- Catalyzing Collaborative and Transformative Change in Organ Donation: The UC San Diego Center for Organ Donation Research, Education, and Innovation, a collaboration between investigators in the School of Medicine and the Herbert Wertheim School of Public Health and Human Longevity Science led by Gabriel Schnickel, Aleah Brubaker, Mita Shah, and Sheri Hartman
- Harmonizing the Pulse of Life: Pioneering Circadian Insights for Human and Ecosystem Health at UC San Diego, a collaboration between faculty members James Nieh and Benjamin Smarr in the School of Biological Sciences and Halıcıoğlu Data Science Institute
- UC San Diego Center for In Vivo Gene Therapy, a collaboration between investigators in the School of Medicine Division of Regenerative Medicine and Jacobs School of Engineering Department of Bioengineering led by Dan Kaufman, Prashant Mali, and Ester Kwon
