RePurpose Energy, a company founded by UC Davis Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Professor Jae Wan Park and led by two UC Davis PhD students Joseph Lacap and Ryan Barr, was awarded the overall Grand Prize as well as the top prize in the Energy & Resources category for the 2019 Rudd Family Foundation Big Ideas Contest. The company tests, reassembles, and redeploys used electric vehicle batteries to provide commercial solar developers with energy storage solutions at half the cost of new battery alternatives. The contest received over 330 applications, representing over 1,000 students and 12 campuses..... Read More

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Defining the resources required to achieve the objectives and milestones of early stage enterprises is a critical activity. A business plan helps define the human, technology, financial and other resources required as well as serves as a tool in communicating with others about a business opportunity or technology project. As part of a business plan, financial models serve an important role in defining the scope of financial resources required as well as the possible financial future for the company. The financial model also helps founders and executives assemble a financial plan for the company for use in managing the business as well as communicating financial information to potential investors, partners and other third parties. This talk, led by Fred Ruegsegger, an experienced financial manager and Managing Director of Four Oaks Partners, will provide an overview of financial modeling for early-stage startups along with examples of financial models, including key inputs and outputs.

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Tuesday, June 25, 2019, 11:30 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.

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Join us for lunch @

UC Davis Office of Research

1850 Research Park Drive

Davis, CA 95618

EVENT COST: Free (Registration Required)

In the mid-1990s, Professor Emeritus Jonathan Heritage and his colleague, Olav Solgaard, an assistant professor in the UC Davis Department of Engineering, began talking about what a better device for routing multiple optical channels might look like. This idea gave rise to what the telecommunications industry refers to as a wavelength selective switch, known as WSS, a sophisticated device that uses tiny mirrors to route signals between fiber optic cables. After disclosing this invention to the University, the patent application was filed in 1998 and the patent was granted in August 2000. In 2001, a startup company, Movaz Networks Inc., licensed the patent and developed a prototype. Movaz was acquired by ADVA Optical Networking in 2006 and the WSS patent was sub-licensed to another company that manufactured photonic products for the telecommunications industry. The patent protection was expired in 2018, 20 years after the original patent was filed. Earlier in 2019, Heritage was elected to the prestigious National Academy of Engineering.... Read More

EicOsis, a company founded by UC Davis Professor Bruce Hammock, is developing inhibitors to soluble epoxide hydrolase (sEH), a key regulatory enzyme involved in the metabolism of fatty acids, to treat unmet medical needs in humans and animals. sEH inhibitors treat pain by stabilizing natural analgesic and anti-inflammatory mediators. The technology has been shown both effective and non-addictive in animal trials. The company expects to launch human trials by August or September of 2019. The clinical studies already have received more than $4 million in support from the National Institutes of Health and the Open Philanthropy Foundation recently announced that it would invest $5 million toward the human clinical trials.... Read More

A student team from the UC Davis Space and Satellite Systems club was one of five university teams invited to present their plans for a Mars greenhouse at the NASA Langley Research Center. The UC Davis students entered the Martian Agricultural and Plant Sciences (MAPS) project for this year’s BIG Idea Challenge, organized by the National Institute of Aerospace in collaboration with NASA. Their goal was to design a greenhouse to support four astronauts during a two-year stay on Mars.... Read More

John Boone, professor in the Department of Radiology at UC Davis Health and in the Department of Biomedical Engineering, and founder of UC Davis startup Izotropic Imaging Corp, is the recipient of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM) 2019 William D. Coolidge Gold Medal. This award is presented to an AAPM member for an eminent career in medical physics and is the highest honor given by the organization.... Read More

Four UC Davis scientists and clinicians have received grants totaling $8.8 million from the California Department of Public Health to study the role of racial disparities, diabetes, diet and infection in Alzheimer’s disease as part of a $21 million package of 11 Alzheimer’s research grants statewide. The largest grant, $4.9 million over five years, was awarded to David K. Johnson, associate professor in the Department of Neurology and director of the UC Davis Alzheimer’s Disease Center in the East Bay..... Read More

In a significant step toward human-crewed space missions to the moon or Mars, NASA has awarded a grant of up to $15 million over five years to a new research institute led by UC Davis. The HOME (Habitats Optimized for Missions of Exploration) Space Technology Research Institute will develop enabling technology for spacecraft and deep-space bases of the future. HOME is led by Professor Stephen Robinson, chair of the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at UC Davis and a former astronaut.... Read More

Allen Van Deynze, director of research at the Seed Biotechnology Center and associate director of the Plant Breeding Center at UC Davis, was awarded the Academic Federation’s 2019 Excellence in Research Award. Van Deynze has conducted groundbreaking research in Mexico and in Africa and has received more than $12 million in research funding since 2012.... Learn More

A UC Davis assistant design professor Katia Vega was one of six researchers in the country to receive the Johnson & Johnson Women in STEM2D Scholars award, which provides $150,000 and three years of mentorship from Johnson & Johnson. Vega has also been honored by MIT Technology Review, which named her one of the five Innovators Under 35 in Peru in 2016. CNET recognized her as one of the Top 20 Most Influential Latinos in Tech in 2017. In 2018, she earned an Interactive Innovation Award in SciFi No Longer at the South by Southwest (SXSW) Conference.... Read More

Fourth-year biosystems engineering major Lisa Illes co-founded the BioInnovation Group (BIG) alongside biochemical engineering major Alex Krueger. Their mission is to help motivated STEM students gain technical skills, business acumen, and hands-on experience working on real-world projects, so members are poised to pursue research or start a company upon graduation.... Read More

Allison Brashear, professor and chair of the Department of Neurology at Wake Forest School of Medicine in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, has been appointed dean of the UC Davis School of Medicine by Chancellor Gary S. May. She is internationally known for her groundbreaking research in movement disorders, and leads a team of neurologists whose clinical, research and innovation focus is on new models of neurological care. She remains an active clinician and holds the Walter C. Teagle Endowed Chair of Neurology.... Read More

The National Academy of Sciences announced the election of 125 members, including UC Davis’ Pam Ronald, distinguished professor in the Department of Plant Pathology and at the Genome Center. As a plant pathologist and geneticist, Ronald researches genes that control disease resistance and tolerance to environmental stress in rice, one of the world’s most important crops. She is known for her engineering of flood tolerant rice, for which she and her colleagues were recipients of the USDA 2008 National Research Discovery Award.... Read More

ARIZ Precision Medicine, a UC Davis-associated startup, is working to create a safer alternative to chemotherapy by developing a drug that targets cancer cells. The company is currently finishing up a $3 million seed investment round and recently gained commitments from investors for about $2 million, with the majority coming from investors with ties to the Greater Sacramento area. ARIZ is a member of the Venture Catalyst Smart Toolkit for Accelerated Research Translation (START™) program and has been leasing wet lab space at the UC Davis-HM Clause Life Science Innovation Center, an incubator in the Distributed Research Incubation & Venture Engine (DRIVE ^TM) network.... Read More

UC Davis Chancellor Gary S. May and Sacramento Mayor Darrell Steinberg announced a preliminary design for Aggie Square, the new innovation hub to be built on the University’s Sacramento campus. The elements of the plan reflect the community priorities that have emerged from meetings with the Aggie Square Partnership Advisory Council and the Community Engagement Advisory Committee. These include an intense focus on workforce development and job creation for people in the neighborhoods surrounding the UC Davis Health campus.... Read More

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