UC Irvine Beall Applied Innovation, with generous support from Don and Ken Beall, created the annual Innovator Awards to recognize UC Irvine researchers working actively to promote commercialization of university intellectual property, which supports industry growth and moves inventions from the lab to market to benefit humankind.

Early Career Innovator/Emerging Innovation of the Year:

Recognizes distinguished innovators who have demonstrated excellence in the early stage of their careers, or in the early stages of an innovation breakthrough, through a combined effort in outstanding research and innovation.

This Year’s Awardees:

EMERGING INNOVATION/EARLY CAREER INNOVATOR OF THE YEAR

Liangzhong (Shawn) Xiang, Ph.D.
Professor, Radiological Sciences
UC Irvine School of Medicine
Professor, Biomedical Engineering
UC Irvine Samueli School of Engineering

Click here to learn more on the UC Irvine Beall Applied Innovation website.

Author: Gabrielle Comfort