University of Kansas Alumnus Makes $100K Gift To Support Venture Fund
University of Kansas alumnus Clay C. Blair III, of Olathe, has made a $100,000 gift for the KU Venture Fund. The university and KU Endowment established the fund to help startup companies move research discoveries from KU into the marketplace with the goal of sparking innovation in Kansas. This is the largest gift for the […]
Two UCD Research Receive €150,000 each From ERC POC Awards
UCD researchers are the most successful Irish based researchers in the latest round of European Research Council (ERC) ‘top-up’ funding or ‘Proof of Concept’ awards. Two of the three Irish based researchers who were awarded one of the thirty-four grants announced by the ERC [today] are based at University College Dublin: Professor Frederic Dias, UCD School of Mathematical Sciences; […]
Northwestern INVO Announces Partnership With Children’s Hospital that includes a $200K/yr Gap POC Program
The Innovation and New Ventures Office (INVO) at Northwestern University announces a new partnership with Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago Research Center (Lurie Children’s Research Center) to provide invention disclosure, licensing and commercialization support.
$35K FSU GAP Grant Recipient Aims To Eliminate Preterm Labor
A Florida State University researcher is tackling a new and inventive way to slow down and perhaps prevent preterm labor. The solution? A pair of goggles. Specifically, Associate Professor James Olcese is developing goggles — he’s calling them light emitting devices — that could intermittently flash a blue light at a sleeping pregnant mother at risk for […]