Health system intelligence profile
UC Davis Health
Partially verified · Last reviewed August 30, 2026
Intelligence summary
UC Davis Health Ventures is the commercialization and venture office for UC Davis Health, created to translate human health research into commercial practice and to build an innovation and entrepreneurship culture across the health system. It develops and commercializes health-related intellectual property, manages translational funding programs, and builds strategic product portfolios out of clinical and biomedical research. The office serves UC Davis Health faculty, clinicians, startups and outside companies seeking to license or partner on UC Davis health technologies. It sits within the university's Innovation and Economic Development Office alongside Venture Catalyst and Aggie Square. With Venture Catalyst it jointly manages the STAIR HEALTH proof-of-concept grant program that funds faculty-led health innovations toward commercial and clinical application.
Documented successes: Chief Ventures Officer role created as an inaugural position for UC Davis Health (UC Davis Health Ventures page); Staffed with dedicated directors for strategic product portfolios and for translational funding programs (UC Davis Health Ventures page); NOTE: the STAIR HEALTH award previously recorded belongs to UC Davis Venture Catalyst, a university-wide program, not to Health Ventures
Mandate and remit
UC Davis Health Ventures is the commercialization and venture office for UC Davis Health, created to translate human health research into commercial practice and to build an innovation and entrepreneurship culture across the health system. It develops and commercializes health-related intellectual property, manages translational funding programs, and builds strategic product portfolios out of clinical and biomedical research. The office serves UC Davis Health faculty, clinicians, startups and outside companies seeking to license or partner on UC Davis health technologies. It sits within the university's Innovation and Economic Development Office alongside Venture Catalyst and Aggie Square. With Venture Catalyst it jointly manages the STAIR HEALTH proof-of-concept grant program that funds faculty-led health innovations toward commercial and clinical application.
These routes appear in the program's sourced public record.
Fund or office: UC Davis Health Ventures
UC Davis Health Ventures is the commercialization and venture office for UC Davis Health, created to translate human health research into commercial practice and to build an innovation and entrepreneurship culture across the health system. It develops and commercializes health-related intellectual property, manages translational funding programs, and builds strategic product portfolios out of clinical and biomedical research. The office serves UC Davis Health faculty, clinicians, startups and outside companies seeking to license or partner on UC Davis health technologies. It sits within the university's Innovation and Economic Development Office alongside Venture Catalyst and Aggie Square. With Venture Catalyst it jointly manages the STAIR HEALTH proof-of-concept grant program that funds faculty-led health innovations toward commercial and clinical application.
Documented successes
Chief Ventures Officer role created as an inaugural position for UC Davis Health (UC Davis Health Ventures page); Staffed with dedicated directors for strategic product portfolios and for translational funding programs (UC Davis Health Ventures page); NOTE: the STAIR HEALTH award previously recorded belongs to UC Davis Venture Catalyst, a university-wide program, not to Health Ventures
Organizational home: UC Davis Health Ventures, UC Davis Health
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