UCSF May Innovation Newsletter

May Innovation

Innovation Podcast

UCSF Teams with SF Opera to Ensure a Healthy Visit to "The Barber"

A team of UCSF doctors worked closely with the San Francisco Opera to ensure safe public performances return to the stage. Opening the season with "The Barber of Seville" in the the Marin Convention Center parking lot. A new mask technology emerged from the collaboration to protect the singers before opening night that may just become a star of the music world as we continue to protect our health.

"Would that everyone were that thoughtful and careful. (The Opera) realize they're playing to a much larger audience because the way they figure COVID safety out is going to lead the way for other Performing Arts companies."

George Rutherford, MD

Professor, Epidemiology & Biostatistics

Director, Prevention and Public Health Group

UCSF School of Medicine

Listen to the podcast to hear all about it

Catalyst Funding

2021 UCSF Catalyst Awardees

Catalyst Awards are the centerpiece of the Catalyst Program. UCSF principal investigators with promising early-stage research projects designed for patient benefit and with commercial potential spanning therapeutics, diagnostics, medical devices, digital health, and biotools can apply. Awarded projects receive mentorship and advice from the Catalyst Advisor Network as well as seed funding. The most recent Catalyst Award cycle was very competitive with over 80 project applications and 27 finalists selected to present their projects to the Catalyst Industry Advisor Selection Committee that selected 13 2021 Catalyst Awardees

Meet the awardees:

AWARDEES

Apply to the Catalyst Summer Internship

Applications for the “Catalyst Awards Summer Internship” are now open!

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Launchpad

MakeYour Ideas

Work For You

Mark your calendars for the 2021 Startup Career Fair hosted by the UCSF LaunchPad and Stanford University Healthcare Innovation Lab on Friday, May 21 at 12 PM PT. The Startup Career Fair will connect students and alumni from UCSF, Stanford, and beyond with startup opportunities, jobs, and internships. Hundreds of impactful startup founders and ventures will be hiring from all over the region and you can meet virtually, discuss existing opportunities, and create new ones!

Blackstone LaunchPad Fellowship

IIAM, founded by UCSF Resident Physician Nicole Jiam, MD, and Shimmer, co-founded by UCSF medical student Jon Wang, were recently awarded and participated in the Blackstone LaunchPad Fellowship. Founders received a $5,000 grant to support their time working on advancing their ventures, as well as other resources, and mentorship to help them advance their startup ideas over the 8-week course.

Partnerships

May 17-18, 2021

Third Annual Drug Delivery West to Feature UCSF Innovation Leader Ellen Kats

"The public-private partnerships UCSF has been a host to have proven to be mutually fruitful both for the academics involved and for the commercial partner. I look forward to sharing what we’ve learned from years of innovative partnering."

Ellen Kats – Assistant Director, Business Development & Licensing

UCSF Innovation Ventures

3rd annual Drug Delivery West (DDW) Summit provides a west coast venue for biotech, pharma and drug delivery companies to address scientific and business solutions for the best routes of delivery across different therapeutic areas with an emphasis on emerging technologies and to prepare for the future of R&D and clinical care.

Honors

UCSF Innovation Ventures' Stephanie Marrus, director of Entrepreneurship, has been appointed to BIO’s Tech Transfer Committee.

In this role Marrus will receive updates from BIO and others on policy matters in Washington DC, regarding intellectual properties and technology transfer-related issues.

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Startup Support

Legal Support for Early-Stage

Healthcare Startups

UCSF Health Hub and UCSF have joined together with Wilson Sonsini to provide complimentary* legal consultations to qualified** early-stage healthcare companies.