Co-investment program forms powerful partnerships for impact | Penn Medicine
How did Philadelphia earn the nickname “Cellicon Valley”? Along with a lot of groundbreaking research and world’s-first discoveries in cell and gene therapies, the Penn Center for Innovation has played a key role in facilitating the development of faculty ideas and discoveries into new products and businesses, including commercially available therapies. The center helps researchers turn their […]
L’Oréal Groupe Launches Groundbreaking “Sustainable Innovation Accelerator”
The accelerator is operated in partnership with the Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership (CISL). Selected companies will participate in a custom acceleration program of up to 12 months, supported by CISL’s extensive global network of over 40,000 professionals and deep expertise in sustainable business development. The partnership aims to co-create the future of sustainable beauty. […]
How Binghamton U NY ChargeUp Accelerator is helping battery tech startups
On a sunny summer day, the leaders of seven battery-focused startup companies met in Binghamton to visit the Raymond Corporation and play some golf — a day which could fool onlookers into mistaking the members of the ChargeUp Accelerator’s second cohort for a group of friends enjoying a day out. The seven companies involved in the Binghamton […]
CU Boulder awards therapeutics funding to advance promising drug development projects | Venture Partners at CU Boulder
Venture Partners at CU Boulder has announced the first recipients of a new translational funding program designed to advance promising, early-stage therapeutics with strong commercial potential. The program provides up to $50,000 per project to help CU Boulder researchers generate critical validation data or develop new intellectual property, bringing new treatments a step closer to patients […]
Eight TCU Student Ventures Split $50,000 in University Accelerator Program
Eight student-created ventures emerged as funding recipients in the 2025 Institute for Entrepreneurship CREATE program’s final pitches in May, dividing $50,000 to help bring their business ideas to life, TCU announced. CREATE is a cross-campus accelerator program run by the Institute for Entrepreneurship and Innovation and led by associate director Paul Evans, and it concluded […]
Gov. Whitmer Announces Awardees of First-Ever Michigan Innovation Fund | Michigan Business
Today, Governor Gretchen Whitmer announced the initial eight recipients of the first-ever Michigan Innovation Fund (MIF) signed into law earlier this year. With bipartisan support from elected officials in the state Legislature, the fund received a $60 million appropriation to distribute across existing early-stage evergreen venture funds in Michigan, emerging evergreen funds in Michigan, and others […]
U Miami Sylvester Innovates Accelerates Early-Stage Cancer Discoveries and Inventions
A new innovation fund will accelerate translational oncology research at Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, part of the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine. Carefully designed to advance faculty-led projects, the Sylvester Innovates Fund (SIF) will provide up to $1 million for promising cancer discoveries and inventions with clinical potential. “Our Sylvester Innovates Fund—Biomedical Competition is designed to accelerate the translation of promising cancer research into […]
Four selected for inaugural Next-Gen Innovators Fellowship at Penn State
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Four emerging leaders in science and innovation have been selected as the inaugural fellows in Penn State’s Next-Gen Innovators Fellowship program, an initiative designed to close critical training gaps in research translation and technology commercialization. Launched by Penn State’s Office of Technology Transfer (OTT), the one-year, paid fellowship offers graduate students and […]
NSF advances 29 semifinalists in the second NSF Regional Innovation Engines competition | NSF – National Science Foundation
The U.S. National Science Foundation Regional Innovation Engines (NSF Engines) program announced the 29 semifinalists advancing to the next stage of the second competition – spanning critical technologies and applications ranging from energy grid security to maximizing the yield of critical minerals mining to advanced optical sensors. The semifinalist teams, many of whom have been building their […]
New MIT postdoctoral fellowship program to accelerate innovation in health care
The MIT Health and Life Sciences Collaborative (MIT HEALS) is launching the Biswas Postdoctoral Fellowship Program to advance the work of outstanding early-career researchers in health and life sciences. Supported by a gift from the Biswas Family Foundation, the program aims to help apply cutting-edge research to improve health care and the lives of millions. The program […]