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Entrepreneur in Residence (EIR) – This campus-wide resource is designed to support research-based entrepreneurship. Inventors and student entrepreneurs can get expert guidance on early-stage technologies, commercialization strategies, and startup creation.
OIC Patenting – The Office of Innovation and Commercialization aims to help researchers disclose, patent, protect, and learn about the best practices for managing intellectual property.
The Basement Blackstone LaunchPad Accelerator – The Accelerator track is a yearlong program open to students who have already developed one and/or more minimal viable products and completed some business validation and customer development on their venture.
Premier Innovation Partnership – Premier Innovation Partners provide critical guidance and industry insights that form the bridge between scientific and commercially viable outcomes for new developments at UC San Diego.
Autobahn Labs Collaboration – A partnership with Autobahn includes access to Evotec’s high throughput drug screening and discovery platforms, drug optimization and validation, as well as basic research and preclinical work with cell lines, primary human cells, iPSCs, and animal models.
Blackstone LaunchPad – Participants in the program gain the entrepreneurship skills and tools to develop their social impact or business idea.
EnVision – Hands-on, experiential education facility where visual arts and engineering communities converge.
Qualcomm Institute Prototyping Facility & Design Studio – The services listed on this page are made available to both internal and external collaborators.
Legal Office Hours – Get advice on starting and running a business or startup from some of San Diego’s best business lawyers.
IGE MedTech Accelerator – No matter what stage your team is in, our program can help you understand how to navigate the complex process involved in bringing medical innovations to market.
Investment Prep – This program is designed specifically to raise investment funds for your startup by supporting you with extensive resources.
Device Acceleration Center – Serves as the ideation and testing hub of medical devices at UC San Diego by providing; translational science training; identifying unmet clinical needs amenable to clinician-engineer collaboration, prototype testing; and commercialization.
Institute of Engineering in Medicine – Facilitates the integration of engineering principles and novel technologies with biomedical and translational research.
BlueLINC – We connect brilliant graduate students with engineering, medical, business, and design backgrounds to propel advances in healthcare.
Galvanizing Engineering in Medicine – Supports projects that identify clinical challenges for which engineering solutions can be developed and implemented to improve health care.
Center for the Future of Surgery – Surgeons and scientists are advancing surgical techniques by investigating, developing, testing, and teaching procedures that are revolutionizing the field of medicine.
