Carilion Clinic’s Innovation program helps bring employee inventions to market – Cardinal News
In the depths of the COVID pandemic, when intensive care units were packed with patients struggling to breathe, an idea came to Dr. Umar Sofi. Sofi is a pulmonologist at Carilion Clinic. “The respiratory therapists, they were really stressed, because there were hundreds of patients in the hospital,” Sofi said. “I would come in the […]
MSU drug developers win seed funding for development of cancer, tuberculosis drugs
Two biomedical researchers at Michigan State University have received a total of $600,000 in high-risk, high-reward Catalyst Awards from the Dr. Ralph and Marian Falk Medical Research Trust. Karen Liby, professor in the Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology – a shared department in the Colleges of Osteopathic Medicine and Human Medicine – and Robert Abramovitch, […]
3 Tiers for Evaluating GAP Projects and Startups for Funding
Funding is a major goal for gap fund and accelerator projects and startups. That’s why it’s so important to have an effective process in place for evaluating potential success
John Deere announces its 2023 Startup Collaborators
Deere & Company has released the names of eight companies chosen for its 2023 Startup Collaborator program. The Startup Collaborator was launched in 2019 and helps John Deere enhance precision technology in its agriculture and construction equipment. This year’s Startup Collaborator participants. “This year’s group shows the importance of connecting with the startup community across […]
TEDCO Tech transfer program creates high-paying jobs, accelerates product development
University of Maryland, Baltimore (UMB) is one of five universities working in partnership with TEDCO as part of our Maryland Innovation Initiative (MII). MII was established in 2012 as a technology transfer program with the goal to grow and accelerate promising technologies through venture creation. According to Arti Santhanam, Ph.D., executive director of MII, Maryland’s elevation in national […]
Drexel Launches Innovation Fund to Address World’s Most Pressing Challenges
Drexel University announced the launch of the Innovation Fund, which invests in early-stage Drexel student and postgraduate startups, as well as startups founded to commercialize the results of Drexel scientific research. “This is a bold new initiative to empower our problem solvers to dream big and take on society’s most pressing challenges,” said Drexel President […]
UChicago launches Polsky Deep Tech Ventures to support startups bringing science and tech to market
he University of Chicago has unveiled Polsky Deep Tech Ventures, a new initiative offering a suite of sector-specific accelerators, entrepreneurial training and funding dedicated to supporting startups that bring world-changing science and technology to market. This effort is aligned with the research strengths of UChicago, Argonne National Laboratory and Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory. Drawing on […]
CSU accelerator named semi-finalist in DOE incubator program
An ongoing accelerator led by Colorado State University and Innosphere has been named a semi-finalist in a U.S. Department of Energy-sponsored incubator program, securing $50,000 in funding with the potential to vie for $100,000 and $500,000 in later rounds of competition. The venture is called REACH (Rockies/Plains Energy Accelerator for Commercializing Hardtech), and it is focused […]
Commonwealth Cyber Initiative’s Ideation to Commercialization program seeks proposals, seeds larger opportunities
The Commonwealth Cyber Initiative (CCI) is seeking proposals from Southwest Virginia researchers for Innovation: Ideation to Commercialization. This program is designed to provide paths to market for research and technologies with the potential for significant societal and economic impact within the intersection of data, autonomy, and security. CCI Southwest Virginia’s research areas emphasize cybersecurity related to fast, secure, […]
Creating impact in the community inspires academic entrepreneurs
he goals that Dr. Mehdi Mohammadi Ashani, PhD, and Dr. Stephanie Bishop, PhD, share for their research inspired them to become academic entrepreneurs. “We are going from invention in the lab to innovation and commercialization,” Mohammadi says. “Seeing my product helping to improve patient outcome and making an impact is really important for me as […]