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Seed Funding Speeds Growth for TreeCo — an NC State Startup
The world’s largest and most advanced collection of gene-edited wood presumably lives on Centennial Campus at North Carolina State University. Stacked on shelves in a corner closet of the Forest Biotech Group’s lab, these bundles of sticks sit mere feet
TEDCO’s Pre-Seed Builder Fund Invests in Maryland Medical Device Start-up · BioBuzz
COLUMBIA, Md. (March 18, 2022)—TEDCO, Maryland’s economic engine for technology companies, announced today its Builder Fund invested $100,000 in Astek Diagnostics, a medical device start-up based in Maryland. TEDCO’s Builder Fund invests in and provides executive support to Maryland-based technology companies run
CUNY Startups program holds inaugural ‘CLASH’
The CUNY Startups program is hosting its first CLASH, a pitch competition between the seven CUNY colleges this spring. The competition allows students to develop an idea that solves a problem facing the world today. There will be three rounds within the
TAU Ventures launches ‘GROW’: a leadership program for managers
Tel Aviv University-based venture capital fund TAU Ventures launched a program for managers in hyper-growth start-up companies. TAU Ventures, which invests in Israeli companies in their early stages, is launching a first-of-its-kind program that is providing managers of portfolio companies
Texas Medical Center Doubles the Size of the TMC Venture Fund
Texas Medical Center (TMC) today announced that it has increased the size of the TMC Venture Fund to $50 million dollars, doubling down on its vision to foster and invest in life science entrepreneurship. The $50 million investment, combined with the recent
Aspiring entrepreneurs called to compete in New Venture Competition
The New Venture Competition provides University of Nebraska–Lincoln students the opportunity to stretch their thinking, pitch business plans and compete for a $15,000 grand prize, alongside additional cash prizes. The top four students have the opportunity for further investment up to $25,000
Congress poised to boost U.S. science funding, launch new health agency
U.S. research agencies would get budget boosts of roughly 5% this year under a final 2022 spending bill that congressional leaders unveiled early today and hope to pass in the next few days. But those amounts fall far short of
UMaine’s MIRTA accelerator program selects four teams for 2022 cohort
Four faculty-led innovation teams have been selected to participate in the fifth cohort of the University of Maine’s Maine Innovation Research and Technology Accelerator (MIRTA) program. The 2022 projects will develop research innovations in accessibility education, aquaculture, computer-aided breast cancer
New Program Will Identify Healthcare Challenges and Design Solutions | University of Arkansas
The U of A and regional healthcare leaders are teaming up to create an innovative new program that will focus on the challenges within the healthcare industry and create new solutions to bring to the marketplace. The Northwest Arkansas Biodesign
Partnership encourages innovation in how universities and industry collaborate
Australian universities could be at the global forefront of research translation and commercialisation in health and medicine if barriers to collaboration are overcome and best practice models explored, according to a University of Sydney and AusBiotech report. The University of