$2.2 million from state will help speed UCI research to commercial market
The University of California, Irvine has received $2.2 million from the state that will be administered through UCI Applied Innovation to help speed research and innovations to commercialization. The funding will underwrite the Bridging Innovation Gaps Initiative at UCI and provide additional support for: The BioENGINE program, which promotes biomedical engineering entrepreneurship by helping graduate […]
Purdue researchers receive Trask funding to commercialize new type of sodium batteries and novel antibiotic for chronic wound healing
Two Purdue University researchers will share $55,000 from the Trask Innovation Fund to further develop their innovations through the commercialization pipeline. Vilas Pol, an associate professor in Purdue’s Davidson School of Chemical Engineering and associate professor (by courtesy) in the School of Materials Engineering and an affiliate of Environmental and Ecological Engineering, received $35,000 for […]
Colorado Boulder research seed grant program accepting proposals for interdisciplinary research, creative work
Now in its 11th year, the 2017 Innovative Seed Grant Program (ISGP)—designed to stimulate new, compelling areas of research and creative work on the University of Colorado Boulder campus—is accepting proposals through Sunday, Feb. 12. With a focus on interdisciplinary ventures that take investigators in high-risk, high-reward directions, the program has set aside $1 million […]
Firebrand Ventures partners with UMKC to cultivate entrepreneurs
Firebrand Ventures has partnered with the University of Missouri-Kansas City to help local startup entrepreneurs. As part of the agreement, the Kansas City-based fund will offer graduates of UMKC’s E-Scholars program an opportunity to receive an investment from Firebrand starting in 2017. Housed under UMKC’s Regnier Institute for Entrepreneurship and Innovation (RIEI), E-Scholars offers students […]
Wake Forest Innovation’s Catalyst Fund to support 6 early-stage technologies
Six early-stage technologies, all invented at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Centerand being developed through Wake Forest Innovations, will receive a combined $595,000 investment to support their initial development. The funding was announced Wednesday by Pappas Capital and Wake Forest Innovations, the money coming through the Catalyst Fund, a $15 million technology development program established by […]
Fred Hutch’s new Evergreen Fund to promote commercialization of research into lifesaving therapies
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center announced its first-ever grants from its newly established Evergreen Fund to spur researchers’ efforts to advance bold ideas toward creating or partnering with a commercial entity. A total of $1 million was awarded to eight Fred Hutch research projects ranging from the development of new immunotherapies for cancer to finding […]
Clemson University Research Foundation awards funds for technology development
The Clemson University Research Foundation (CURF) has announced six recipients of fiscal year 2017 Technology Maturation Fund awards. The CURF Technology Maturation Fund provides grants to faculty to support the last critical development step needed to move their technology to the marketplace. “There is no limit to innovation at Clemson,” said CURF director Casey Porto, “however, […]
LSU faculty members are closing in on bringing their inventions to market with funds from the university’s LIFT2 grant program
A new age cooling system that more efficiently powers refrigerators, a data-driven polling analytics program and tools for attaching soft tissue to bone are rarely mentioned in the same breath—or even thought about much by the average person. But by providing proof-of-concept grants to faculty members for these and many other inventions through its Leverage […]
New Nevada InNEVenture Fund to ramp up commercialization with $100K pilot
A new source of proof-of-concept funding has been established to help University of Nevada, Reno faculty, students, staff and recent graduates determine if their technologies and business ideas have commercialization potential and help them navigate the gap between concept validation and obtaining seed funding for their venture. Applications are being accepted through Tuesday, Oct. 12, […]
Announcing the 2016 Illinois Proof-of-Concept Program Award Recipients
The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Office of Technology Management (OTM) is pleased to announce the 2016 awardees of the Illinois Proof-of-Concept Funding Program (I-POC). I-POC facilitates development projects that demonstrate an innovation’s market viability to potential investors and partners. Projects consist of a defined set of milestones that, when completed, help overcome a specific hurdle to […]