UCSF Catalyst Awards
Supports UCSF investigators with seed funding that starts healthcare innovation and accelerates patient-facing pilots.
UCSF Innovation Ventures operates the Catalyst Program as UCSF's primary translational accelerator, designed to move UCSF discoveries with clinical impact and commercial potential along the path from academic research to patient benefit. Since 2010, the Catalyst Program has distributed $13 million across 313 awards — approximately 21 awards per year — and the portfolio has generated $751 million i…
Translational validation of therapeutics, diagnostics, medical devices, and digital or computational health technologies with a clear path to clinical implementation or commercialization; discovery research is not funded.
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