Unlocking Innovation

Our Engagement and Opportunity Development Team collaborates with faculty to shape business opportunities around cutting-edge technologies. Taking a market-first approach, we identify product potential based on research discoveries, tailoring business models for optimal market entry. We focus on advancing innovations ready for business while providing the necessary support. Our streamlined process connects researchers to funding sources and, when needed, assists in launching new businesses. With a dedicated focus on assessing UCSF research for market potential, we ensure greater access to transformative healthcare solutions for the public.

Executive in Residence Program (XiR)

XiRs offer our academic community the lived experience
of the marketplace so that their science can be translated
into real-world, commercial opportunities

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Key Opinion Leaders (KOL)

This feedback network is a list of 50+ venture capitalists,
pharmaceutical company contacts, entrepreneurs, special
area experts, and angel investors whose experience &
perspectives are available to support UCSF as we seek
better market opportunities for our technologies.

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