Abbott joins UCI’s TechPortal Orange incubator

TechPortal Orange, a medical business-technology incubator, has leased 900 square feet of laboratory space at its UC Irvine Medical Center location to the vision care business of Abbott, a global healthcare company.

Calit2 to debut its TechPortal

TechPortal will serve as gateway to commercialization for university innovations.

Guann-Pyng (G.P.) Li (left), UCI professor of electrical engineering and computer science, and David Reinkensmeyer, UCI professor of anatomy and neurobiology and mechanical and aerospace engineering.

2 UCI researchers named fellows by National Academy of Inventors

G.P. Li and David Reinkensmeyer recognized for beneficial innovations

Making moguls out of middle schoolers

Siblings Gina and Jenae Heitkamp, winners of the 2014 Business Plan Competition at UC Irvine’s Paul Merage School of Business, are breaking glass ceilings: first all-female team to win, first sister team to make the finals and first toy idea to take the 11-year-old contest. Their company, iBesties, is a line of books, dolls and […]

Athina Markopoulou

A perfect balance

An engineer, professor, researcher, entrepreneur, wife and mother finds a second home at Calit2

G.P. Li

Collaborator in chief

Don’t let the piles of paperwork fool you – G.P. Li has a systematic strategy for pursuing innovation

Fred Tzeng

Little chip, big implications

UCI research produces breakthrough for battery efficiency in medical equipment, automobiles and consumer electronics.

Biomedical business incubator to have grand opening at UC Irvine Medical Center

The UC Irvine School of Medicine and Office of Research are hosting a Nov. 8 grand opening for TechPortal Orange, the first clinically oriented biomedical incubator in Southern California.

UCI to create medical business/technology incubator

Portal, which aims to foster economic growth by nurturing start-ups, helps deliver on the promise of science and technology.

Jeff Greenberg, Stephen Jenks and Sung-Jin Kim

Incubating innovation

UCI’s new TechPortal smooths the road from invention to successful commercialization of university-based inventions.