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The University of Virginia is launching a new, cross-University entrepreneurship initiative to advance its “Great and Good” 2030 strategic plan and to make it easier for students, faculty, staff, alumni and investors to navigate the entrepreneurial ecosystem. “I’m grateful to

The Ohio University Board of Trustees approved to name OHIO’s new translational research center, the Heritage Translational Research Center, in honor of the university’s ongoing partnership with the Osteopathic Heritage Foundation during its meetings Oct. 19-20. The foundation is providing

The University of Alberta has launched a new fund to invest in startup ventures working to solve complex challenges facing the world and diversify Alberta’s economy, providing much-needed funding and additional support for innovators and entrepreneurs. The University of Alberta Innovation

The first six projects funded by the new Blazer Bridge Fund include, among others, potential new therapies for viral infections, designed protein nanopores, AI-based solutions for lung function assessments and a social app for teachers. The BBF, launched in spring

Debashis Chanda, a professor in UCF’s NanoScience Technology Center, recently received SONY Innovation Award for the year 2022. This is first such award to UCF. The SONY Research Award program, which the honor is part of, is designed to foster international technological innovation.

technology-driven company supported by the University of Calgary’s UCeed fund is poised to disrupt the traditional leadership development landscape. Monark recently secured $1.5 million in seed fundraising from investors across Canada, including UCeed, and has also been selected to participate in the Google Accelerator Program.

Venture capital may have slowed, but that doesn’t mean some VC firms aren’t still raising big. Greylock — famous for bets on companies such as Airbnb, Coinbase and then-Facebook, now Meta — announced its 17th fund, a $1 billion vehicle focused on pre-seed, seed and Series

The Harrington Discovery Institute at University Hospitals in Cleveland is partnering with the University of Oxford and a U.K.-based investment company to launch a transatlantic therapeutics accelerator aimed at developing treatments for rare diseases. The Oxford-Harrington Rare Disease Centre Therapeutics Accelerator is a first-in-kind

AUSTIN, Texas, Oct. 4, 2023 /PRNewswire/ — Global technology and software leader Emerson (NYSE: EMR) announced a new executive board of key life sciences leaders to help define, review and demonstrate prototypes for Emerson technologies that will safely speed life-saving drugs to market.

Venture Lab — Penn’s entrepreneurship center located in Tangen Hall — has added two new types of events to its semester-wide roster of events. Beginning in Fall 2023, students who are part of Venture Lab’s Venture Initiation Program Community (VIP-C) program can