Entries by Aj Cheline

Steps to Avoid/Reduce Coronavirus Transmission in Labs

Last Updated 4/1/2020 Require that all personnel who are feeling unwell stay home until they no longer have symptoms Remind all personnel to practice recommended personal hygiene measures including washing hands frequently, using hand sanitizer, avoiding touching their face and covering coughs. Explore and implement measures to allow “social distancing” of lab/research personnel. For example, […]

UC Davis COVID-19 Research Accelerator Fund Call for Proposals and Application Guidelines

Program Overview Update: Funds for this program have been exhausted through the first two rounds of proposals and it is currently no longer taking proposals.  Thank you for all the wonderful ideas and proposals that have been submitted! In response to the unprecedented research challenges presented by the COVID-19 pandemic, UC Davis Office of Research is launching […]

New Working Group Advances COVID-19 Research at UC Davis

By Lisa Howard March 25, 2020 The Office of Research has launched a COVID-19 Research Working Group to help faculty, postdocs and students connect with collaborators and funding opportunities. A website, Slack channel, Sympa email list and curated list of funding opportunities have been set up. There are also weekly teleconferences. While non-critical on-site research activities have been ramped down on campus, critical research, which […]

Campus Guidance on Reducing On-Campus Research Activities Due to COVID-19 (March 17, 2020)

  A Message from Vice Chancellor for Research Prasant Mohapatra to the UC Davis Research Community March 17, 2020 I am writing to provide guidance for managing research activities during the COVID-19 pandemic. UC Davis remains open for research activities at this point in time, but we strongly recommend that on-campus research activities be adjusted […]

Wearable Device Assists People with Spinal Cord Injuries

By Lisa Howard March 12, 2020 UC Davis medical and engineering experts are teaming up to develop an under-clothing biosensor that can recognize in real time when someone’s bladder is full. Most people take that kind of biological awareness for granted, but it is lacking for the approximately half a million individuals in the United […]

Mouse Biology Program Joins the Office of Research

As the Mouse Biology Program (MBP) begins its third decade of service as a scientific resource for campus researchers, we are pleased to announce that effective March 1st they will join the UC Davis Office of Research.  With operational and administrative oversight provided by the Office of Research, this move will place MBP in a better position […]

University Startup PvP Biologics Acquired by Takeda Pharmaceutical Company

By Lisa Howard March 5, 2020 PvP Biologics, a startup formed around technology developed at the University of Washington and the University of California, Davis, announced on February 26 that it has been acquired by Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited. The acquisition comes after the conclusion of a Phase 1 proof-of-mechanism study of an investigational medicine, TAK-062, also […]