The TAKEOFF Seed Fund Awards: Supporting Discovery, Innovation, Knowledge and Impact

Researchers and entrepreneurs will be able to benefit from a maximum of €25,000 to start and grow their ideas through this year’s TAKEOFF Seed Fund Award (TOSFA) which was launched today, the 6th May 2020. A total of €100,000 will be allocated through this competitive call which closes at noon on Monday 25 May 2020.  The […]

New COVID-19 Research and Innovation Fund engages community in Vanderbilt’s fight against coronavirus

Vanderbilt University has established a new COVID-19 Research and Innovation Fund. The fund enables donations to support research and innovation projects to fight COVID-19. “Since the beginning of this global crisis, Vanderbilt University has been called upon to use our research capabilities to address urgent needs due to the impacts of COVID-19,” said Interim Chancellor and Provost […]

Life science startup targeting pancreatic cancer receives IU Philanthropic Venture Fund investment

The IU Philanthropic Venture Fund has invested $125,000 in the recent Series Seed funding round for Amplified Sciences, an Indiana life sciences startup that leverages patent-protected technology that amplifies difficult-to-find biomarkers. Its lead assay in development helps clinicians test for pancreatic cancer and better treat patients with pancreatic cysts. “Among the incredible Indiana community of biopharma and […]

TEDCO’s Seed Fund made two new investments in local startups

Following a few months of organizational uncertainty — and despite an ongoing global crisis — Maryland Technology Development Corporation (TEDCO)’s Seed Fund is back to making investments in local startups. Bethesda, Maryland’s NewConnect and Baltimore’s BullFrog AI each received a $200,000 investment from the Columbia, Maryland-based fund last month. Launched in 2013, NewConnect provides high-speed internet access to commercial buildings and enterprises […]

NC IDEA: It’s time to rethink economic development priorities

DURHAM – Last week we announced the award of sixteen grants ($10,000 each) to startup companies across North Carolina. Since the MICRO program started in Spring 2018, we have awarded over $600,000 to 61 young companies across the state. I wanted to take today’s message to explain how the MICRO program was born from observation and necessity and why […]

OSU Accelerator awards seed funding to accelerate technology commercialization

Five projects led by College of Engineering faculty were recently chosen for funding via The Ohio State University Accelerator Awards: David Dean, Emre Ertin, Sanjay Krishna, Mrinal Kumar and Tanya Nocera. The Accelerator Awards program provides grants of up to $150,000 to help develop technologies to the point that they are either ready to be licensed by […]

NIH invests in rapid innovation and development for COVID-19 testing

UMass Medical School and UMass Lowell will perform a key role in a new National Institutes of Health initiative aimed at speeding innovation, development and commercialization of COVID-19 testing technologies via their Center for Advancing Point of Care Technologies collaboration. With a $1.5 billion investment from federal stimulus funding, the newly launched Rapid Acceleration of […]

NC Biotech Center awards $1.8M in grants, loans to startups, universities

RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK – The North Carolina Biotechnology Center awarded 13 grants and loans totaling $1.8 million to universities and bioscience companies in the third quarter of its current fiscal year. The awards, made from January to March, will support life science research, technology commercialization and entrepreneurship throughout North Carolina. The funding will also help universities […]