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University Gap Funding and Accelerator Community News
VT LAUNCH’s Proof-of-Concept Program seeks proposals, seeds larger opportunities
The Innovation and Partnership’s LAUNCH team in collaboration with Virginia Tech Intellectual Properties (VTIP) is seeking proposals from Virginia Tech researchers for Proof-of-Concept grants designed to provide paths to market for research and technologies with the potential for significant societal and economic
Rowan Innovation Venture Fund backs tech startup, MRIMath, LLC
The Rowan Innovation Venture Fund has made a $200,000 investment into MRIMath, LLC, a Rowan University-affiliated startup that uses artificial intelligence to dramatically improve the detection of brain tumors—as much as three years earlier than the standard of care. The medical technology company
Hackensack Meridian Health Research Institute Accelerates Discovery and Innovation in NJ’s Largest Health Network
The Hackensack Meridian Health Research Institute (HMHRI) is accelerating scientific progress for patients across New Jersey. The HMHRI was formed this year to bring together all the many departments and areas of expertise across the state’s largest and most comprehensive health network,
Oregon State researchers take key step toward improving treatment of cystic fibrosis
PORTLAND, Oregon – Researchers at Oregon State University and Oregon Health & Science University have taken a key step toward improving and lengthening the lives of cystic fibrosis patients, who experience chronically clogged airways and a dramatically shortened life expectancy.
Greentown Labs, MIT, Texas Universities Reveal New Student Entrepreneurship Program
HOUSTON, Oct. 27, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — Greentown Labs, the largest climatetech startup incubator in North America, today launched the Texas Entrepreneurship Exchange for Energy (TEX-E), a first-of-a-kind collaboration among Greentown Labs, MIT’s Martin Trust Center for Entrepreneurship, and universities across Texas to create a powerful student-driven entrepreneurship ecosystem in Houston,
Pitt Innovation Institute makes strides with patents, connection to UPMC Enterprises
Pitt’s Innovation Institute, now part of the Office of Innovation and Entrepreneurship, was formed nearly nine years ago, and yet Vice Chancellor for Innovation and Entrepreneurship Evan Facher says there are still people on campus who don’t know the institute
Lilly commits $92.5 million to Purdue to establish an innovative pharmaceutical manufacturing scholarship program and to extend research collaboration
INDIANAPOLIS and WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Purdue University and Eli Lilly and Company (NYSE: LLY) are establishing an innovative new pharmaceutical manufacturing scholarship program and have renewed their strategic research collaboration in a series of moves that will expand their impact
Discovery Vanderbilt initiative to catalyze university’s transformative research and discovery
Vanderbilt University today launched a landmark investment in transformative research and innovation through Discovery Vanderbilt, a new initiative announced by Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs C. Cybele Raver. Discovery Vanderbilt builds upon Opportunity Vanderbilt and Destination Vanderbilt by committing major resources to dramatically increase
Lilly, UPenn Nimbus ink $496M biobucks deal
Eli Lilly is forecasting that Nimbus Therapeutics will discover new therapies for treating metabolic diseases, partnering up with the biotech and giving it the chance to collect up to $496 million in biobucks. Per the agreement, Nimbus will work to discover
What Drives The University Of Michigan’s Entrepreneurial Success-Forbes
In preparation of speaking at the Michigan Tech Week (MTW) on October 12 and 13, I discovered so many connections to the University of Michigan (U-M) that I decided to dig into what powers U-M’s entrepreneurial success. Seemingly everyone knows that the University of