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Identifying proteins for new drugs to treat triple-negative breast cancer. Developing an improved material for solar cells. Creating a threat-modeling system to enhance cybersecurity in manufacturing. These are among the projects funded through the latest round of UWM Research Foundation’s

The U.S. National Science Foundation announced a new investment through its Enabling Partnerships to Increase Innovation Capacity (EPIIC) program, totaling nearly $19 million to 48 awardees at U.S. institutions of higher education, including teams from historically Black colleges and universities, minority-serving institutions (MSIs),

ice University has doled out another batch of grants from its program supporting lab-based innovations. The One Small Step Grant, which was announced a year ago and gave out its first grants in February, was established to fund Rice-founded, lab-stage projects on their path

THE University of Glasgow has launched a new fund to encourage the translation of research to strengthen the development of its spin-out pipeline in the field of MedTech. The MedTech Innovation Fund (MT-IF) will build on the institution’s strengths in

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — The Penn State Eberly College of Science’s Lab Bench to Commercialization (LB2C) Grant Program is now accepting applications for its 2024-25 funding cycle. The Eberly College of Science is committed to supporting its researchers in translating their research

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Since the creation of Purdue Innovates in 2023, the comprehensive system has worked to streamline access and strengthen support to technology commercialization and startup support resources. The push to provide top-tier resources for entrepreneurial activities in Indiana is

Cornell Tech today announced the newest cohort of 13 startup companies that will enter its established Runway incubator program this September. The program is run by the Jacobs Technion-Cornell Institute on the Cornell Tech campus and will welcome its largest

Techstars has invested in thousands of early-stage startups, with more than 600 in the healthcare sector, such as fertility tracking firm Ovia Health and baby monitoring company Owlet. Some companies in its portfolio have gone on to become larger players

Vermont Business Magazine The University of Vermont (UVM), Vermont‘s flagship, land-grant university and Cambridge-based BioInnovation Labs (BioLabs), an internationally known innovation laboratory platform with a network of shared lab and office workspaces, will launch a dedicated incubator at UVM’s Colchester facility. The

Empowering and equipping the next generation of Black entrepreneurs is the mission of UNCF’s (United Negro College Fund) Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship (CIE). That was the driving force behind the center’s recent Innovate for Impact Pitch Competition in partnership with Think