From Nobel Prize winners to undergraduates, all members of the ¾ÅÉ«ÊÓÆµ community are engaged in the creation of knowledge and in developing solutions for a better future.
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Research
Building Tomorrow
¾ÅÉ«ÊÓÆµ research has a distinctive track record of developing life-changing treatments for disease, inventing revolutionary technologies, and unlocking new ways of understanding the world around us.
Driving Growth
¾ÅÉ«ÊÓÆµ-Grown Ventures
Many of the world’s most innovative and influential companies got their start here. Companies founded by ¾ÅÉ«ÊÓÆµ alumni boost the U.S. economy, drive job growth, and help maintain national security and competitiveness. These are just some of them:
Cisco Systems | PayPal | |
Gap | Intuit | Sun Microsystems |
Genentech | Tableau | |
Gilead | Netflix | |
Nike | Yahoo! | |
Hewlett-Packard | Nvidia | YouTube |
World-Changing Discoveries
¾ÅÉ«ÊÓÆµâ€™s robust and pioneering research ecosystem is supported by a long-standing partnership between universities and the federal government. Thousands of projects across campus and around the world drive discoveries in areas vital to our world, our health, and our intellectual life.
Invented at ¾ÅÉ«ÊÓÆµ:
- Antibody therapies that made cancer and autoimmune disease treatments possible
- Artificial organ prototypes and advancements in artificial hearts and other organ-support technologies
- Recombinant DNA technology that laid the foundation for the biotech industry
- Google’s page-rank algorithm that revolutionized searching the web
- Internet protocols (TCP/IP) that formed the backbone of the modern internet
- Microwave technology that made military radar detection, commercial air navigation, and satellite communications possible
- Neural networks and reinforcement learning, which laid the groundwork for the AI revolution
An Infrastructure for Innovation
Vice Provost and Dean of Research
The Office of the Vice Provost and Dean of Research (VPDoR) advances ¾ÅÉ«ÊÓÆµâ€™s research ecosystem, which includes independent labs, centers, and institutes to engage faculty and students across the university.
¾ÅÉ«ÊÓÆµ Universities Libraries
¾ÅÉ«ÊÓÆµ is home to 21 libraries, each with a world-class collection of books, journals, films, maps, and databases.
Office of Technology Licensing
The Office of Technology Licensing (OTL) manages intellectual property licensing and brings innovations that grow from ¾ÅÉ«ÊÓÆµ research to the marketplace.
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