From ‘Experiment’ to $50 Million in Funding: After 5 Years, Where Penn Health-Tech is Going – Penn Medicine
When it began five years ago, Penn Health-Tech (PHT) was an experiment. It was a trial to see whether bringing engineering expertise into contact with clinicians at one of the nation’s premier academic institutions could actually translate into something that helps everyday people. In a way, it was taking theories from academia and shooting them into the […]
Meet the Winners of the 2022 DST Launch Seed Grants | Duke Today
The Office for Research & Innovation has awarded funding to eight, interdisciplinary projects as part of the inaugural Duke Science and Technology (DST) Launch Seed Grant Program. This year’s winners include faculty from multiple disciplines across campus and the School of Medicine who were selected out of 61 proposal finalists for initiating high-impact projects that […]
Donation creates new Translational Research Impact Fund at MIND Institute
MIND INSTITUTEAugust 22, 2022 Donation creates new Translational Research Impact Fund at MIND Institute By Marianne Russ Sharp Research participant’s father leaves funds in will to support research into fragile X, other neurodevelopmental disabilities (SACRAMENTO)When Gail Goldstein Heyman’s father died in January, he left her family – and the UC Davis MIND Institute – a generous surprise. Leon […]
GE Healthcare’s Edison Accelerator program could accelerate the medical industry’s adoption of AI
Six digital health start-ups, specifically looking at AI to augment medical imaging, have recently been selected to become the first cohort of GE Healthcare and Nex Cubed’s Edison Accelerator program. Focusing on AI should improve patient care by changing the way healthcare is delivered in Canada, allowing clinicians to spend more direct time on patient […]
Virginia Tech launches new Innovation Postdoctoral Fellowship
The Office of Research and Innovation and Office of Postdoctoral Affairs in partnership with LAUNCH: the Center for New Venture is launching a new Innovation Postdoc Fellowship track within the larger Presidential Postdoctoral Fellowship program. Innovation Fellowships are intended for postdoctoral researchers who are highly motivated to extend the impact of their research through new technology […]
New UH student-run venture fund announces first investments
A student-run seed investment group, the Calvin Shindo Student Venture Fund at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, announced its first-ever strategic investments totaling $20,000 in Hohonu and Reeler, companies started by a UH faculty member and alumni. Reeler connects small-scale fishermen directly to consumers via its mobile app. The venture fund—launched in 2021 as a program under the Pacific Asian Center for Entrepreneurship (PACE) at the Shidler […]
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 […]