The UC Davis Innovation Institute for Food & Health (IIFH) is expanding its leadership in translating breakthrough science into real-world impact through a new strategic partnership with Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL). By bringing together UC Davis’ internationally recognized expertise in food, nutrition, and health with LLNL’s strengths in artificial intelligence, supercomputing, synthetic biology, advanced engineering, and biotechnology, the collaboration establishes a powerful innovation hub designed to accelerate the development of next-generation ingredients, diagnostics, computational tools, and biotechnology platforms. At the center of this partnership, IIFH serves as the catalyst that connects world-class research with entrepreneurs, investors, and industry partners to move scientific discoveries beyond the laboratory and toward meaningful commercial applications.
The partnership reflects IIFH’s mission to make the foods we love healthier for all people and the planet by building the ecosystem needed to translate evidence-based research into scalable solutions. Through new talent development programs, collaborative research initiatives, and technology commercialization efforts, IIFH is helping create faster pathways for innovation that can strengthen food systems, improve human health, and fuel economic growth. As IIFH continues to expand collaborations across academia, government laboratories, and industry, it is positioning UC Davis as the premier destination for advancing the future of food and health innovation.
