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- 01/27/2009 - First Embryonic Stem Cell clinical trial in humans approved by FDA
The F.D.A. has approved the first clinical trial in humans of embryonic stem cell treatment. The hESC therapy was developed at UC Irvine by Dr. Hans Keirstead and is under license to Geron. For more information, see: Today@UCI and NY Times
- 01/12/2009 - UC Irvine invention, HiPerWall, was all the talk at the current Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas by its first distributor, Samsung. The 40-LCD system was developed by HiPerWall, Inc., a member of the TechCoast Works incubator. See: http://www.informationweek.com/blog/main/archives/2009/01/ces_super_scree.html
- 08/14/2008 - UC Irvine startup, RF Nano, has received an $8M round of financing from Oxanium Ventures to speed develop carbon nanotube technology for improving high-performance wireless communications. RF Nano is based on technology developed by Professor Peter Burke in the INRF labs here at UCI.
- 07/03/2008 - Antigen Discovery, Inc. (formerly ImmPORT Therapeutics), a UC Irvine startup company, has received an SBIR Phase II grant to further develop ADI's protein microarray based serodiagnostic platform for applications in biodefense and emerging infectious diseases. The microarray has most recently been used to reveal early exposure to tuberculosis in a cohort of Ghanaian children.
- 09/28/07 - OTA workshop on Industry Consulting drew an audience of over 60 to the McDonnell Douglas Engineering Auditorium.
View the presentation given by David Schetter and Kevin Kennan from OTA or read the handout.
- Scientists from UC Irvine and CODA Genomics, a UCI start-up company, are partnering on new research aimed at turning a common strain of yeast used in the production of beer, wine and bread into an efficient producer of ethanol.
- N.V. Organon licenses UC Irvine discovery to create new class of drugs.
- UC Irvine’s Office of Technology Alliances is the newest Southern California Biomedical Council member.
- Bone Cement cancer treatment wins 2007 UCI Business Plan competition. This technology was developed in the UC Irvine lab of Joyce Keyak, Ph.D. and Harry Skinner, M.D., Ph.D.
- UCinSoCal Blog features Start-Up companies and outstanding technologies from 5 Southern California UC Campuses.
- One-Cycle Control’s next-generation 3-phase power-electronics for distributed energy has been selected by the DOE for further development. One-Cycle Control, Inc. is a UC Irvine start-up company founded on technology developed in the lab of Professor Keyue Smedley, Ph.D.
- The first Orange County Business Incubator for Medical Devices is getting ready to launch as described by the Orange County Register. The Orange County Business Incubator Network (OCBIN) has been formed to nurture and support new start-up companies in aerospace, information technology and biotechnology as well as medical devices.
