First-ever U Alabama Blazer Bridge Fund grant recipients announced
The first six projects funded by the new Blazer Bridge Fund include, among others, potential new therapies for viral infections, designed protein nanopores, AI-based solutions for lung function assessments and a social app for teachers. The BBF, launched in spring 2023 by the Harbert Institute for Innovation and Entrepreneurship at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, is […]
UCF Researcher Receives SONY Innovation Award
Debashis Chanda, a professor in UCF’s NanoScience Technology Center, recently received SONY Innovation Award for the year 2022. This is first such award to UCF. The SONY Research Award program, which the honor is part of, is designed to foster international technological innovation. The award from the multinational electronics corporation will fund the development of infrared night vision […]
UCeed helps tech-driven leadership-development company take flight
technology-driven company supported by the University of Calgary’s UCeed fund is poised to disrupt the traditional leadership development landscape. Monark recently secured $1.5 million in seed fundraising from investors across Canada, including UCeed, and has also been selected to participate in the Google Accelerator Program. Dr. Amanda Julian, MSc’15, PhD ’21, and Kelsey Hahn founded the company to fill a […]
Greylock Closes New $1B Fund To Invest In Earliest-Stage Startups
Venture capital may have slowed, but that doesn’t mean some VC firms aren’t still raising big. Greylock — famous for bets on companies such as Airbnb, Coinbase and then-Facebook, now Meta — announced its 17th fund, a $1 billion vehicle focused on pre-seed, seed and Series A founders. The firm will look to fund AI-first companies across a variety of areas, […]
University Hospitals partners with University of Oxford on accelerator to develop treatments for rare diseases
The Harrington Discovery Institute at University Hospitals in Cleveland is partnering with the University of Oxford and a U.K.-based investment company to launch a transatlantic therapeutics accelerator aimed at developing treatments for rare diseases. The Oxford-Harrington Rare Disease Centre Therapeutics Accelerator is a first-in-kind initiative to identify, fund and advance breakthrough academic discoveries for rare genetic diseases — such […]
Emerson Forms Life Sciences Executive Board to Advance One-Click Technology Transfer Initiative
AUSTIN, Texas, Oct. 4, 2023 /PRNewswire/ — Global technology and software leader Emerson (NYSE: EMR) announced a new executive board of key life sciences leaders to help define, review and demonstrate prototypes for Emerson technologies that will safely speed life-saving drugs to market. Emerson’s One-Click Technology Transfer™ initiative aims to dramatically reduce the inordinate amounts of time and […]
Penn Venture Lab launches new community startup programming
Venture Lab — Penn’s entrepreneurship center located in Tangen Hall — has added two new types of events to its semester-wide roster of events. Beginning in Fall 2023, students who are part of Venture Lab’s Venture Initiation Program Community (VIP-C) program can attend Community Dinners and pitch nights that occur on alternating Wednesday nights. These sessions typically […]