Success Stories

The skeleton is one of the most important organs in the human body. Bone integrity plays a critical role in overall wellbeing, and the integrity (...)

Molecular recognition is fundamental to effective disease detection and treatment, and detecting and manipulating biomolecules that underly illnesses such as cancer or heart disease early (...)

Aurrion, Inc., founded in 2008, was an optoelectronics company that specialized in integrating photonic and electronic components into silicon chips. Aurrion was founded by UCSB (...)

Millions of people face walking difficulties stemming from neurological conditions, injuries, or other health issues. Traditional treatments, which include functional electrical stimulation, can be painful, (...)

Therapeutic selectivity remains a challenge in cancer treatment, despite significant advances in the pharmaceutical industry. Promising therapeutic design candidates often fail to make it past (...)

Bringing a new drug to market can cost billions of dollars and take over a decade. Accelerating drug development could lead to improved patient outcomes (...)

Thanks to the work of Dr. Victoria Broje and Elastec/American Marine, the efforts to clean-up the catastrophic 2010 Gulf Oil Spill had an important new (...)

Can aging be cured? That’s the question that UC Santa Barbara (UCSB) startup Integrated Biosciences is trying to answer. Co-founders Felix Wong and UCSB Associate (...)

The prevalence of recent cyber-attacks has proven that anyone is susceptible to a security breach. University of California Santa Barbara (UCSB) startup Lastline is changing (...)

Over 1.5 million people are diagnosed with cancer annually in the US, and nearly 570,000 die from the disease each year. One of the most (...)

The world’s oceans have a plastic problem; it’s been predicted that in just a few decades the plastic in the oceans will outweigh all the (...)

According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration, buildings consume nearly half of all energy produced in the United States, most of which comes from nonrenewable (...)

Kidney health is foundational to overall health and wellness, and UC Santa Barbara (UCSB) startup Santa Barbara Nutrients (SBN) is committed to finding innovative solutions (...)

Energy efficiency is an important issue, and it will only grow in importance, as the world begins to experience the effects of inevitable widespread constraints (...)

Fossil fuels are commonly known to power cars, provide heat, and keep the lights on, but they are used for far more. They are, in (...)

Insects and arachnids, such as mosquitoes and ticks, are responsible for a multitude of diseases including malaria, dengue, West Nile virus, and more. These diseases (...)

Antibiotics have made it possible to treat bacterial infections from meningitis to cellulitis, but antibiotic-resistant bacteria have become widespread, making drug treatment less effective. At least (...)