Summer 2016 Issue
Research Matters Quarterly Newsletter Summer 2016
Entries by Aj Cheline
A Priceless View: EyePod Lets Researchers See ‘What’s Really Happening’ Inside Tumors
By AJ Cheline May 22, 2016 Cancer is not like other diseases. It can grow rapidly and invade surrounding tissues, changing its molecular structure to evade treatments. Because the disease is so dynamic, any single view — from a scan, biopsy or microscope — is just one frame in a long-running movie. To truly understand […]
UC Davis Researchers One Step Closer to Creating Hand-held Device to Detect Pathogens like E. coli
By Lisa Howard Marc Pollack, a Ph.D. student in the UC Davis Microbiology graduate group, and Jeremy Warren, a former postdoc in Plant Pathology, leave Davis at 5 a.m. every weekday morning to commute to IndieBio, a startup accelerator in a narrow alley just south of Market Street in the heart of San Francisco. It’s […]
Startups with Roots at UC Davis Pivot as Innovations Become Businesses
By Lisa Howard Instead of graduating and jumping straight into the workforce, some enterprising grads are forming companies with ideas and innovations they developed at UC Davis. John Bissell (’08) helped develop a method for creating more sustainable plastic as an undergraduate studying Chemical Engineering. Tom Shapland (’07, M.S. ’11, Ph.D. ’12) worked with a […]
Seventeen Labs Designated as Campus Research Core Facilities at UC Davis
The Research Core Facilities Program was launched in 2015 by the Office of Research to oversee and strengthen the core research infrastructure at UC Davis. As part of this charter, the program has initiated a process to designate certain laboratories across the university that provide shared research services as Campus Research Core Facilities. This designation […]
UC Davis partners with Sacramento business incubator Hacker Lab
March 17, 2016 – The University of California, Davis and Hacker Lab, Inc., a Sacramento nonprofit organization, have entered into a collaborative agreement to include the business incubator as the third member of the university’s Distributed Research Incubation & Venture Engine (DRIVE™) Network. The alliance pairs the established facilities and resources at Hacker Lab with […]
Sensing What Ails Us
Cristina Davis is a professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering and director of the Bioinstrumentation and BioMEMS (bio-microelectromechanical systems) Laboratory. Her main research interests are chemical and biological sensing applications, use of technology to speed biomarker discovery, novel bioMEMS devices, and bioinformatics interpretation of sensor output. Davis’ group is currently developing new sensor systems for […]
Research Vice Chancellor Harris Lewin to Step Down
By Dana Topousis February 9, 2016 Harris Lewin has decided to return to the faculty in the Department of Evolution and Ecology and the Genome Center after successful service as vice chancellor in the Office of Research over the period of his five-year term. Lewin, who joined UC Davis in 2011, will transition out of […]
Adrastia Biotech
By Aj Cheline Recent UC Davis graduate and cancer survivor develops simple test that may improve breast cancer detection and forms startup company based on the technology “I wouldn’t say that I have always thought of myself as an entrepreneur, but I have always considered myself a problem solver,” says Angela Courtney, who recently received […]
UC Davis Sets New Record for Sponsored Research Funding
University of California, Davis, hit an all-time high for external research funding for fiscal year 2014-15, receiving $786 million. The total represents an 11.5 percent increase from the previous year and a surge in support from the federal government by 13.4 percent year-over-year. “This great achievement is a testament to our researchers who have expertise […]
