New Presidential Innovation Fund seeks to ‘catalyze the creative capital on campus’ | News | theonlinecurrent.com

On Feb. 7, an email from Chief Operating Officer & Vice President for Strategy Kanika Tomalin announced the Presidential Innovation Fund Grant Program. The program looks to fund projects aimed at supporting President Damián Fernández’s Strategic Plan.  Fernández introduced Eckerd’s strategic plan in October 2020, highlighting four pillars: Eckerd at the Edges: “Innovation in the Liberal […]

These 3 Johns Hopkins research teams got seed funding to develop their medical devices – Technical.ly

With the Bisciotti Foundation Translational Fund, John Hopkins University School of Medicine is bringing seed funding to three teams of researchers creating innovative medical devices. Each of these devices, which are being developed by Hopkins professors and fellows, aim to dramatically decrease costs on hospitals and improve patient care by taking anesthesia out of the equation. Recipients were […]

Washington State U Commercialization Gap Fund supports high market potential research in 2022 

An improved method for treating age-related eye diseases is one of nine projects by Washington State University researchers awarded with commercialization gap funding this year. The Commercialization Gap Fund (CGF) provides funding to help WSU scientists such as Kuen-Ren “Roland” Chen bring their technology from the research laboratory to the market. Chen is developing a […]

New Fenton Founders Fund to support student-founded startups | @theU

The David Eccles School of Business at the University of Utah and the Joan and Tim Fenton Family Foundation today announced the creation of the Joan and Tim Fenton Founders Fund at the David Eccles School of Business, aimed at supporting startup companies formed by business students or others within the broader university network. Created […]

Cornell, startup receive $7M for novel clean energy tech

Cornell researchers and a startup have received more than $7 million in federal grants to advance novel clean energy research that includes wirelessly charging electric vehicles, low-carbon jet fuel and construction materials made from waste. , Click to open gallery view Credit:Cornell University File Photo Doctoral students, from left, Sounak Maji and Maida Farooq and […]

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Michigan State University MTRAC AgBio Innovation Hub Awards Over $715,000 in Agricultural Technologies

East Lansing, Mich. (March 28, 2018) – Thirteen research technologies demonstrating commercial potential in the advancement of the AgBio industry were awarded a total of over $715,000 in funding from Michigan State University’s (MSU) AgBio Michigan Translation Research and Commercialization (MTRAC) statewide Innovation Hub to continue their path toward the commercial market. Eight proposed technologies […]

Three novel UNC-Chapel Hill startups named to the latest class of KickStart Commercialization Award winners

HEADLINE: Three novel UNC-Chapel Hill startups named to the latest class of KickStart Commercialization Award winners SUBHEAD: Altis Biosystems, EmpowerRT and Irex Pharma receive a combined $110,600 in funding to develop new stem-cell technologies for drug discovery, improved cancer radiation therapies and advances in treating cystic fibrosis BODY TEXT: When UNC-Chapel Hill spinout company G1 […]