Tag: entrepreneurs
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VCs Expect More Deals in 2011, but Not for Science
A survey of U.S. venture capital (VC) investors shows expectations of more investments for entrepreneurs in 2011 across all company stages from initial seed funding to later stage rounds. More VCs expect investments to increase in technology-related companies, however, rather than those based on scientific discoveries. The survey of 330 VC investors was conducted in…
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Journal Highlights African Health Innovations
A supplement to the open-access journal BMC International Health and Human Rights devotes its entire issue to health innovations in sub-Saharan Africa, which offers case studies of local initiatives. The papers, relating the experiences of projects by institutes and companies in Ghana, Kenya, Madagascar, Nigeria, Rwanda, South Africa, Tanzania, and Uganda provide lessons from successful…
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Univ. Develops, Licenses Nanotech Bone Injection Technology
A bone-healing fluid that can potentially be injected into breaks with a syringe has been licensed from Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island by a biotech startup for further development. The technology, still in an early stage, was developed by Brown engineering professor Thomas Webster, and licensed to Audax Medical Inc., based in Littleton, Massachusetts.…
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Medical Implant Coating Made from Univ. Licensed Technology
The long-term performance of medical implant devices, like heart valves and cardiac stents, could be enhanced substantially by new bio-coating technology recently licensed to University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) spin-off company Endomimetics LLC. The patent-pending technology is a coating for implants, called bio-nanomatrix, made with a bio-engineered nanomaterial that mimics natural endothelium, the substance…
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Univ. Spinoff Tests Non-Chemical Device for Head Lice
Larada Sciences, a company started by faculty at University of Utah in Salt Lake City, released results of its LouseBuster device that removes head lice and their eggs from children’s hair without pesticides or other chemicals. The company says results of the test will be published in the January 2011 issue of the Journal of…
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Start Up Licenses University Mining Sensor Technology
United Science, a start up company in Center City, Minnesota, has licensed sensor technology developed at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis that could prevent toxic byproducts of copper and iron mining, and potentially other industries, from ending up in the environment. Chemistry associate professor Philippe Buhlmann developed the ion selective electrode (ISE) sensor membrane.…
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Grant Boosts Research Commercialization Group
The Maryland Proof of Concept Alliance — a consortium of Maryland university research institutions and the U.S. Army Research Laboratory — has received a $5.1 million federal grant to support its work moving research findings from the lab to the marketplace. The Alliance helps researchers through the often tricky and (to the researchers) unfamiliar process…
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New Process Developed for Bio-Plastic Feedstocks
Chemical engineers at University of Massachusetts in Amherst have developed a way to produce high-volume chemical feedstocks from biomass, such as waste wood, agricultural waste and non-food energy crops. This method, that the authors say is economically competitive to current processes using fossil fuels, can produce industrial materials such as benzene, toluene, xylenes, and olefins,…
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Life Sciences Venture Network Launches in New York
The New York Academy of Sciences plans to kick off the Life Science Angel Network (LSAN) at the academy’s lower Manhattan headquarters on Thursday 18 November. The new investment network is expected to connect scientists and entrepreneurs with funding to support commercialization of discoveries in biotechnology, medical devices, and health care informatics. The academy says…
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University Spins Off Biomarker Targeting Company
The University of Liège in Belgium announced the first spin-off company, called Targetome, from GIGA, the university’s applied geno-proteomics center. The company is led by Vincent Castronovo (pictured left), a university faculty member on whose research the company is based. The company is developing a new technique to identify biomarkers which are over-expressed in certain…