January 28, 2014 – Eighty-four ambitious UC Irvine students have begun working on 19 cross-disciplinary projects as the popular Multidisciplinary Design Program kicks off its fourth year. MDP, first launched in 2011, is sponsored by CALIT2 and UCI’s Undergraduate Research Opport

January 14, 2014 – Three new tenants, all of whose pioneering products are the result of UC Irvine research projects, are now calling CALIT2’s TechPortal business technology incubator home. Defineqa (pronounced De-fin’-a-ka) headed by Arlene Doria and Nick Martin, is produ

January 14, 2014 – CALIT2 TechPortal tenant Biopico Systems is the recipient of a 6-month, $150,000 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I grant from the National Science Foundation. The funding will allow the startup to test the feasibility of an innovative method fo

December 16, 2013 – Malaria kills a child somewhere in the world every minute. This life-threatening disease, caused by parasites transmitted through infected mosquitoes, can be prevented and cured if detected and treated early. But malaria afflicts primarily the poor, who often