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University Gap Funding and Accelerator Community News
Kent State University receives three grants from Third Frontier Tech Validation and Start-up Fund
The Ohio Third Frontier program recently made three separate grants to Kent State University researchers through the newly established Technology Validation and Start-up Fund, which promotes the commercialization of Ohio technologies developed by the state’s institutions of higher education.
University of Rochester Medical Center uses external perspectives and experiences to build a community of entrepreneurial faculty
The University of Rochester-Medical Center, through its tech transfer and commercialization objectives, has a comprehensive strategy to both educate and engage key faculty, leadership, and stakeholders on campus. The CLASP elective course for faculty is great example of one initiative.
Event in AZ underscores common tensions and opportunities in tech commercialization and U-I relations
Some of the biggest names in Tucson business — Jim Click, Bruce Beach and Don Diamond — all agree that if this region is to gain traction and grow economically, it needs to attract the kind of capital that will
UCSD Von Liebig Center Graduate, Ortiva Wireless, is acquired
Israel’s Allot Communications (NASDAQ:ALLT), which optimizes data traffic and performance for both fixed and mobile broadband networks, says it is acquiring San Diego-based Ortiva Wireless, which specializes in optimizing video streaming across wireless networks. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.
UTexas Entrepreneurial Faculty Member Urges State to Support Start-up Funding
University of Texas professor James McGinity has defied the odds as an academic entrepreneur. In 1996, he and a colleague, Bill Williams, went in hock for $1 million to start a company, PharmaForm LLC, in a small building off Yager
NY Dept of Health/Venture firms team up to support digital health
In unique public-private partnership, the state Department of Health has teamed up with venture capital firms to invest in health technology and push New York to the top of the growing field of electronic medical records.
$8.25 million Seed Fund for Early-stage Life Science Companies: BioCrossroads Forms Indiana Seed Fund II
INDIANAPOLIS, April 30, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ — BioCrossroads announced today the formation of the Indiana Seed Fund II (the Fund), an early-stage capital fund focused on identifying, creating and developing the next generation of Indiana-based life sciences companies. The
NUtech Ventures/UTDC uses proof of concept funding to support a promising imaging spin-out, Ground Fluor Pharmaceuticals Inc.
University Technology Development Corp. provided proof-of-concept funding to help move DiMagno’s imaging agents out of the lab and into clinical trials. Supporting the transfer of university technology to the marketplace, UTDC is a University of Nebraska affiliate and the parent
Ohio and Ohio State University talk about expectations related to their new venture partnerships
“Obviously, you’re making educated guesses on which companies will be successful, but we already do that through the private equity portfolio that we have, and we intend to run the innovation fund in a similar manner to how the other
NIH announces translational research grants to support obesity and diabetes
The National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) encourages NIH Research Demonstration and Dissemination Project grant (R18) applications from institutions/ organizations to test practical, sustainable, acceptable, and cost efficient adaptations of efficacious strategies or approaches prevent and