U Michigan partners with venture capital group to support start-ups
A new partnership between the University of Michigan’s tech transfer office and the Michigan Venture Capital Association (MVCA) aims to increase the commercialization of university technology by granting members of the MVCA access to UM-based research and start-ups.
U-M awards first $100K translational medical research award
Administrators at the University of Michigan’s A. Alfred Taubman Medical Research Institute announced Monday the winner of the first $100,000 translational medical research award.
$53M translational research grant to U-M will help health researchers develop new therapies — with the public’s help
University of Michigan scientists and doctors do some of the most advanced medical research in the world. But much of it wouldn’t be possible without the thousands of people a year who volunteer their time, health information, blood, saliva, DNA or other samples to help those researchers better understand diseases and improve health outcomes. Now, […]
U Wisconsin-Madison Translational Research Institute Grant Renewed with $41.5 Million
The new award allows the Institute for Clinical and Translational Research to continue its major program of cultivating the development of researchers who can conduct translational research. This is the research in which discoveries move as quickly as possible along a continuum from the university to doctors’ offices, clinics, hospitals and county health departments where […]
Invest Illinois supports four Champaign-Urbana area start-ups
Four startup companies with ties to the Champaign-Urbana area have been approved to receive equity investments from the state’s new Invest Illinois Venture Fund.
Pure Michigan Venture Development Fund Accepting Applications
LANSING– The Michigan Economic Development Corporation has announced that the Michigan Strategic Fund is targeting to invest up to $9 million to help grow the venture capital industry in Michigan.
Ben Franklin’s Energy Commercialization Institute awards translational research grants to area universities
The Energy Commercialization Institute (ECI), the region’s first university-based energy commercialization partnership, has awarded $500K to five university-based translational research and commercialization projects. The funding is intended to jump start promising technologies and help build southeastern Pennsylvania’s alternative energy infrastructure.
GlobeSherpa, a Portland State student-led venture, moves forward in convenient transit application
Riding TriMet buses and trains in Portland may soon become a paperless, machine-less and generally more convenient experience ifGlobeSherpa has anything to say about it. The 2-year-old company has created a mobile system that lets riders buy tickets on their phones. The completely paperless platform would also give TriMet an easier way to manage operations and even provide […]
Few Awards Lead to Frustrations at Third Frontier Fund, Others Point to Recent Program Changes
Many of the people in charge of the Ohio Third Frontier program aren’t happy. Several members of the Third Frontier Commission and Advisory Board expressed deep frustration over the relatively meager number of awards that the technology-focused economic development program has made during fiscal year 2012, which ends on June 30.
Gap Funding Helps University of Illinois at Chicago Professors Commercialize Discoveries
Four technologies being developed by University of Illinois at Chicago researchers have been awarded the first UIC proof-of-concept gap funding grants, designed to help UIC faculty transition their inventions from the laboratory to the marketplace.