Purdue researchers receive $470K for commercialization – Inside INdiana Business

Eight researchers from Purdue University are receiving a total of more than $470,000 from the university’s Trask Innovation Fund and Proof of Concept Fund. The university says the investment is designed to help the researchers commercialize their work. Brooke Beier, senior vice president of commercialization for the Purdue Research Foundation says the goal is to […]

2 new medtech startups will spin out of Johns Hopkins research fund grants

Two new medical startups, focusing on addressing vision loss and catheter-associated urinary tract infections (UTIs), are on the horizon thanks to the $200,000 in grants the research teams received from the Johns Hopkins University’s Louis B. Thalheimer Fund for Translational Research. 14 researchers applied to the Thalheimer Fund, which was created to provide seed funding for proof-of-concept […]

NIH funds UK, XLerateHealth partnership on digital learning platform | UKNow

LEXINGTON, Ky. (Aug. 18, 2022) — XLerateHealth (XLH), a national health care accelerator based in Louisville, Kentucky, in partnership with the University of Kentucky through UK Innovate, has been awarded the first phase of a potential $3.25 million multiyear grant by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) through the IDeA Regional Entrepreneurship Development (I-RED) Program. The purpose of the grant […]

UWM Research Foundation awards Bridge Grants to UWM startups

The UWM Research Foundation has awarded a total of $178,220 to five UWM startups that are managed by faculty, students or staff and also have licensed intellectual property from the Research Foundation. These Bridge Grants are designed to provide “gap” funding to startups that have progressed past the government-funded basic research stage and are moving […]