Nanome Inc., the team behind the Matryx collaboration platform, is based at the Qualcomm Institute at UC San Diego.

QI is the UC San Diego division of the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2). Established by Gray Davis to help bring business and academic research together under one roof, Calit2 also creates cutting edge AI, robotics, and, today, blockchain technologies. Alongside Qualcomm, companies like ERICSSON, intersil, AMCC, CONEXANT, IBM, Sun and SAIC are among the founding industry donors.

Seen just out front of the Qualcomm Institute

The collaborative, interdisciplinary research at QI focuses on four core areas of societal benefit: culture, energy, the environment, and health.

Wireless, photonic, cyberinfrastructure, nano-micro-electromechanical systems and nano-Mems industries are all prominent at QI. Nanome Inc. has seen first-hand how the Institute leads to the development of spinoff institutes and research centers for the UC San Diego campus.

We are based specifically at QI’s Innovation Space on the 2nd floor. Other companies in the Innovation Space include ARC, VirBELA, Foundation for Learning Equality, LONPROX, ACROVIRT, technosylva, RAM Photonics, PLANET3, Sinopia Biosciences, oxygen INITIATIVE, and FASTech.

Nanome maintains control over its IP here at the Institute. All of the interdisciplinary research that UC San Diego cannot do inside of its various departments can be done here.

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This right to our own intellectual property pertains to half the floor on which we operate, and enables Nanome Inc. to maintain ownership of CalcFlow, Nano-Pro, nano-one, the Matryx collaboration platform, and other technologies designed for corporate clients. Companies like Nanome Inc. ands large donors help keep the lights on here at Calit2.

With close proximity to a vast array of resources, there is tremendous emphasis on bringing new technologies to market at Calit2. Our team also works with undergraduates, who are free from the University IP agreement.

Qualcomm and UC San Diego have seemingly grown up together over the past thirty years. The university feeds many wireless technology engineering graduates directly into the Qualcomm workforce. UC San Diego lends space to Qualcomm for the training of core tech workers hired from other universities.

Co-founder of Qualcomm Irwin Jacobs is a former faculty member at UC San Diego. He and his wife, Joan, have donated $110 million to the campus. Qualcomm contributed another $30 million to support the Calit2. Qualcomm’s support of Calit2’s QI comes with no strings, allowing Calit2 researchers to push every envelopes as they see fit.

UC San Diego has a history of crowdsourcing projects. Scientist Albert Lin combined advanced technologies in remote sensing, satellite imagery, and crowd-sourcing in an effort to find the 800-year-old lost tomb of Genghis Khan in Mongolia.

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The core technology in Lin’s project is used today to provide real time, crowd-sourced damage assessments following natural or man-made disasters. Nanome envisions its crowdsourcing vision as having an impact like this.

There are more than 350 faculty members, 120 technical and professional staff at the UC San Diego campus. As well as hundreds of student-workers, undergraduate scholars, graduate fellows, postdoctoral researcher’s, project and research scientists, and nearly 200 Industry partners.

As a company comprised largely of UC San Diego graduates here at Nanome Inc., we feel a strong bond with UC San Diego, like members of an extended family.

Whether it’s visiting with an on-campus expert or one of our many professor-advisors, UC San Diego allots Nanome an abundance of opportunities. The location of our headquarters is a testament to the driving force behind Nanome Inc.