Biomedical Catalyst Award Goes To BioMoti, Pharmidex and Queen Mary University of London
BioMoti, Pharmidex and Queen Mary University of London (QMUL) have been awarded a grant of £662,222 by the UK’s innovation agency, Innovate UK. The grant was awarded under the Biomedical Catalyst funding competition to support preclinical studies of new therapeutic approaches for hard-to-treat tumours including advanced ovarian, triple negative breast and pancreatic cancers. The project […]
Missouri Innovation Center invests $125,000 in local startups
Chris Harbert didn’t expect to choke up during his business pitch at the Missouri Tech Challenge on Wednesday night at the Blue Note. In August, Harbert turned down a six-figure income at a Fortune 1000 company to focus on his business, Testery. Testery supports companies in running their own testing on web-based applications at an […]
Purdue-affiliated life sciences startup wins first place and $25,000 in BioCrossroads competition
LoDos Theranostics LLC, a Purdue-affiliated life sciences startup, received the first-place prize at the New Venture Competition hosted by BioCrossroads. You-Yeon Won, a professor in Purdue’s School of Chemical Engineering, and Rachel Kim, an MBA graduate from MIT Sloan, co-founded LoDos Theranostics to develop radio luminescence therapy. This technology is a nanoparticle ultraviolet radiation technique that […]
Vertex Ventures raises $210 million for Southeast Asia, India start-ups
Vertex Ventures, the venture capital arm of Singapore state investor Temasek Holdings, said it has raised a $210 million fund to invest in Southeast Asian and Indian startups, exceeding its original target size of $150 million. Vertex plans to continue its strategy of investing in early-stage technology companies in Southeast Asia and India across enterprise technology, financial technology and consumer internet, it […]
MTRAC awards spark biomedical innovation at Wayne State University
Three Wayne State University (WSU) research teams were recently awarded funding from Wayne State’s Michigan Translational Research and Commercialization (MTRAC) program. The goal is to accelerate the translation and commercialization of their innovative biomedical technologies by providing the resources to validate technical and market opportunities. The MTRAC projects will be supported by $1.1 million in […]
$25k Startup Competition Seeks Case Western Student And Alumni Founders
Late in the summer, Case Western Reserve University (CWRU) partnered with university trustee and venture capitalist Bob Pavey, JumpStart and the Morgenthaler family to introduce the new Morgenthaler-Pavey Startup Competition. Designed to identify and support high-potential startup companies coming out of CWRU, the annual competition is currently seeking applications from ventures whose founding teams include at […]
Enterprise Ireland offering €500,000 in start-up funding
This CSF is directed at mature and highly experienced business professionals with 25 years or more of relevant business experience in Ireland or abroad, of which at least 10 years should be at a senior or leadership level. Up to 10 successful applicants will receive high-level business development support and an investment of up to […]
NMSU’s Arrowhead Center Receives $300,000 From U.S. EDA For Seed Capital Fund
The U.S. Department of Commerce recently announced that Arrowhead Center, the entrepreneurship and innovation hub at New Mexico State University, has been awarded a $300,000 grant through the Economic Development Administration’s Regional Innovation Strategies program to support the Arrowhead Innovation Fund, an early stage seed capital fund for promising New Mexico startup companies. “This investment […]
Local North Carolina universities go full-steam searching for investments
One firm that is a Triangle company in every sense of the word is 410 Medical. Its founder and chief medical officer, Mark Piehl, a pediatric critical care physician at WakeMed, works at both Duke University and the UNC-Chapel Hill School of Medicine, where he earned his medical degree. And the company’s product, LifeFlow, designed to improve life-saving fluid […]
Tucson Entrepreneurs Launch Venture Capital Fund Dedicated to University of Arizona
Founders of UAVENTURE CAPITAL, LLC today announced the launch of a new venture capital fund designed to support the commercialization of University of Arizona science, services and intellectual property. UAVC has been formed by Fletcher J. McCusker, the business driver behind the University of Arizona College of Pharmacy spin out SinfoníaRx, Inc., and the founder of the public company Providence […]