BioSci Corporate Partnerships
Exceptional People. Breakthrough Science. Enduring Partnerships.
Our BioSci Corporate Affiliates Program (BioCAP) connects companies with exceptional talent, world-class research, emerging innovation, and strategic investment opportunities. Partners gain a coordinated pathway into a leading research institution at the center of San Diego’s life sciences ecosystem. Through BioCAP, companies can strengthen talent pipelines, engage relevant scientific expertise, gain visibility into emerging discoveries, and build relationships that advance long-term business and innovation priorities.
Partnership Pathways
BioCAP connects companies with the School of Biological Sciences through four complementary pathways, creating relationships that advance business priorities while strengthening the people, research, and innovation driving life sciences forward.
Talent
Build relationships with scientifically trained and highly motivated students before they enter the broader talent market. Through engagement with our highly competitive Career Scholars Program and one-of-a-kind, comprehensive Experiential Learning & Career Readiness curriculum, companies increase employer visibility, showcase their science and culture, and connect with prospective interns and future employees. These sustained interactions help organizations strengthen their talent pipeline, better understand emerging workforce capabilities, and contribute to the preparation of adaptable, industry-ready future leaders equipped to address complex challenges and create value from the start.
Research
Connect your organization with faculty expertise and research capabilities aligned with its scientific and strategic priorities. BioCAP helps companies navigate relevant disciplines, identify potential collaborators, and explore appropriate pathways for technical exchange, sponsored research, and deeper institutional engagement. These connections can broaden R&D perspective, surface complementary capabilities, inform important scientific questions, and reduce innovation blind spots. The result is stronger access to ideas and relationships that can support better decisions, future growth, and competitiveness.
Innovation
Engage emerging science through programs that connect researchers with industry, investors, entrepreneurs, and commercialization experts. Our Innovation Bootcamp, BioSci Innovation Pitch, and Bridging Biomedical Breakthroughs create opportunities for companies to contribute market insight, business and technical expertise, and translational perspective. In return, partners gain earlier visibility into promising ideas, developing technologies, scientific momentum, and potential collaborators, helping them monitor new fields, challenge internal mechanisms, and recognize future product, partnership, and investment opportunities more effectively.
Investment
Invest strategically in the talent, programs, and innovation infrastructure that support long-term business growth. Corporate investment builds on UC San Diego’s institutional commitment, enabling the School to expand high-value initiatives, deepen industry connectivity, and increase opportunities for our students and researchers. Partners gain meaningful visibility, talent engagement, and stronger alignment with priority communities and programs. Each investment is structured to advance our School's goals while supporting the company’s workforce, innovation, and broader business objectives and growth.
Schedule a Partnership Conversation. Connect with Melissa Hoon, Director of Corporate Relations and Professional Development, to explore how your company’s priorities align with our talent, research, and innovation. Email Melissa.