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Clinically Inspired Discovery Program Ideathon and UREKA launch

Thursday, April 10 at 8:30 am - 6:00 pm

1675 Owens Street
Rutter Center
San Francisco, CA 94158
United States

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Add to Calendar 2025-04-10 08:30:00 2025-04-10 18:00:00 Clinically Inspired Discovery Program Ideathon and UREKA launch ​UCSF physicians will present challenging problems in their specialty and students will form a team and come up with an idea of how to solve them. After talking with many UCSF colleagues and students we have set up two programs, one to bring UCSF clinicians out of their silos (UCSF Clinically Inspired Discovery) and the other to enhance career opportunities for our students and postdocs (UREKA).  Both will be launched  our April 10 event in the Rutter Center. Our audience, limited to 100, is primarily students who are exploring careers at the interface of clinical medicine and the life scientists.  More information and ideathon registration here: http://ucsfureka.com/ ​Event program: ​9:00 - 10:20 session 1: stromal tissue and health ​10:20 - 10:30 break ​10:30 - 12:00 session 2: stromal tissue and disease#1 ​12:00 - 12:30 lunch ​12:30 - 2:00 session 3: stromal tissue and disease#2 ​2:00 - 2:30 break ​2:30 - 3:45 session 4:  emerging technologies ​3:45 - 4:15 break ​3:45 - 4:00 deliverables ​4:00 - 6:00 reception 1675 Owens Street Rutter Center San Francisco, CA 94158 United States View on Map ieva.veya@ucsf.edu America/Los_Angeles public

​UCSF physicians will present challenging problems in their specialty and students will form a team and come up with an idea of how to solve them.

After talking with many UCSF colleagues and students we have set up two programs, one to bring UCSF clinicians out of their silos (UCSF Clinically Inspired Discovery) and the other to enhance career opportunities for our students and postdocs (UREKA).  Both will be launched  our April 10 event in the Rutter Center. Our audience, limited to 100, is primarily students who are exploring careers at the interface of clinical medicine and the life scientists. 

More information and ideathon registration here: http://ucsfureka.com/

Event program:

  • ​9:00 - 10:20 session 1: stromal tissue and health
  • ​10:20 - 10:30 break
  • ​10:30 - 12:00 session 2: stromal tissue and disease#1
  • ​12:00 - 12:30 lunch
  • ​12:30 - 2:00 session 3: stromal tissue and disease#2
  • ​2:00 - 2:30 break
  • ​2:30 - 3:45 session 4:  emerging technologies
  • ​3:45 - 4:15 break
  • ​3:45 - 4:00 deliverables
  • ​4:00 - 6:00 reception