Achievement

Lucas Arzola won the UC Davis Big Bang Business Plan competition in 2010, with his Inserogen team. Lucas followed up with a recent Elevator Pitch Award at the 13th Annual UC Berkeley Business Plan Competition this April. In addition, his doctoral research has received recognition through awards at multiple poster competitions: 1) first place in the Health Sector poster competition at the Agricultural Biotechnology International conference in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada; 2) first place in the 2011 ISPE/SF Bay Area Student Poster Competition in South San Francisco, CA, which included a funding award to attend/compete at the national ISPE meeting in Texas; 3) the UC Davis Dean's Prize for Best Oral Presentation, College of Engineering at the 2011 Interdisciplinary Graduate and Professional Symposium; and 4) an Advanced E team grant from the National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance (NCIIA) for Green Technology for Sustainable Poultry Vaccine Manufacturing.