UCSD Center for Health Innovation Expands with $22 Million in Gifts
With a generous $22 million in gifts from Joan and Irwin Jacobs, UC San Diego Health will bring its Center for Health Innovation into full reality. The gifts will fund a novel patient-care “mission control center” within Jacobs Medical Center at UC San Diego Health and the Jacobs Chancellor’s Endowed Chair in Digital Health Innovation. […]
Princeton’s technology accelerator fund celebrates 22 startups in 10 years of fueling innovations
The Intellectual Property (IP) Accelerator Fund provides support to researchers who have made a discovery but need to conduct extra studies to demonstrate that the discovery can meet a societal need. Such studies drive the research forward and can be essential for attracting outside investment and funding from government small-business programs. “These awards have a multiplier effect […]
New Tulane POC fund offers up to $50,000 to bring great ideas to market
Have a great idea for a new technology, but you need some funding to get it off the ground? The Tulane University Innovation Institute, in collaboration with Provost Robin Forman, has launched the Provost’s Proof of Concept (PPOC) Fund to provide competitive grants of up to $50,000 to help university faculty, graduate students or staff get promising […]
White House unveils new cancer programs on Moonshot anniversary
On the anniversary of the revived Cancer Moonshot, the Biden administration unveiled partnerships directed at cancer care and prevention such as providing clinical and patient navigation support to families facing childhood cancer and boosting access to screenings and early detection. The 13 initiatives announced Thursday are part of the White House’s overarching effort to reduce cancer death […]
‘Utah Innovation Lab’ would be a state-sponsored angel investor for university startups
They call it “the valley of death.” In the technology startup world, it’s the gap in funding between the federal grants that fuel research at universities and the venture capital that funds startups when they’re starting to scale up. Can a state-created nonprofit be the angel investor that walks the state’s tech entrepreneurs through the […]
UC Santa Cruz gap funding opportunity to develop university innovations
The Innovation & Business Engagement Hub is now accepting applications for its new Innovation Catalyst Grant; a proof-of-concept program focused on providing targeted gap funding, training, mentorship, and support to UC Santa Cruz researchers in order to help de-risk and/or validate the implementation and adoption potential of early-stage technology innovations. The overall objective of the program is to […]
New fintech education center, start-up incubator and student entrepreneur venture fund launched at University of Utah
SALT LAKE CITY, Jan. 30, 2023 /PRNewswire/ — University of Utah President Taylor Randall today announced a new donor initiative meant to supercharge the student entrepreneurial experience and Utah’s reputation for financial technology innovation and education. The university, in partnership with the Stena Foundation and founders Steve and Jana Smith, will create the Stena Center for Financial Technology. The foundation has orchestrated total funds of up […]
U-M launches first phase of effort to amplify research, scholarship
As communities continue to grapple with significant societal challenges, University of Michigan researchers are seeking opportunities to amplify the impact of their discoveries and innovations to improve the quality of life for people across the state, nation and world. To support their ongoing efforts, the university has launched the first phase of its new presidential […]
THI Launches New Innovation Partnerships Program
Texas Heart Institute’s new Innovation Partnerships program seeks to develop new medical technologies by facilitating THI partnerships with outside entities and launching spin-out companies from THI labs. In this spirit, THI worked closely with the Texas Medical Center’s TMC Innovation (TMCi) to provide mentorship and research services to healthcare startups from around the world. THI personnel collaborated […]
New biotech venture fund invests in Cleveland’s future
Two-dozen investors are hoping to make a big impact on the biotech environment in Northeast Ohio through the Cleveland Life Sciences Accelerator Fund, a $2.7 million venture capital fund that closed Aug. 5. Led by founder Mark Chance, former vice dean of research for the school of medicine at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, […]