Tag: entrepreneurs
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Start Up Licenses Nuclear Imaging Drug Compounds
Clarity Pharmaceuticals Pty Ltd, a new company in Australia, has licensed technology developed by the University of Melbourne and the Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation (ANSTO). The technology involves compounds developed by scientists from ANSTO and the University of Melbourne for use in positron emission tomography. Positron emission tomography (PET) is a test that…
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Oxford University Spins Off Tidal Turbine Company
A new enterprise, Kepler Energy Limited, has been formed in the U.K. to develop a tidal turbine, a result of research in Oxford University’s Department of Engineering Science. Professors Guy Houlsby, Martin Oldfield, and Malcolm McCulloch developed the turbine (pictured right), which they say has the potential to harness tidal energy more efficiently and cheaply…
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Houston Biomed Incubators to Collaborate, Combine Labs
Two business incubators in Houston, Texas aimed at biomedical start up companies, have agreed to collaborate and share facilities. The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth) and BioHouston Inc. announced an agreement yesterday that calls for greater collaboration between the organizations’ technology incubators and consolidation of services. The UTHealth incubator is known…
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Small Business Admin Awards Science-Tech Support Grants
The U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) has awarded $100,000 grants to 20 state and local economic development agencies, business development centers, and colleges and universities, under its Federal and State Technology (FAST) partnership program. SBA says the FAST Program is designed to stimulate economic development among small, high technology businesses through federally-funded innovation and research…
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MIT Innovation Center Awards Emerging Technology Grants
The Deshpande Center for Technological Innovation at MIT in Cambridge, Massachusetts today announced grants totaling $800,000 to 10 MIT research teams working on early-stage technologies. The Deshpande Center aims to act as a catalyst for innovation and entrepreneurship with grants that fund proof-of-concept explorations of emerging technologies. The 10 selected projects cover technologies including materials,…
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Business Incubator Spins Off Hand Hygiene Start Up
HanGenix, a recently formed start up enterprise in Boston, Massachusetts, is the first company to be spun out of a new business incubator program from the Center for Integration of Medicine and Innovative Technology (CIMIT), a consortium of teaching hospitals and engineering schools, also in Boston. HanGenix focuses on reducing hospital acquired infections (HAI) by…
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University, Entrepreneurs Advance Biofuels for U.S. Military
Syracuse University in Syracuse, New York joined today with two entrepreneurs to advance the use of biofuels by the U.S. armed forces as an alternative energy source. The entrepreneurs, John Fox and Wayne Arden, have proposed producing biodiesel in Afghanistan as a way of reducing risks to American troops and building a new, sustainable industry…
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University of Minnesota Spins-Off Medical Device Startup
University of Minnesota has helped launch a startup company based on the research of a professor in the university’s medical school in Minneapolis. The company, XO Thermix Medical, in nearby Wayzata, Minnesota will develop a device that treats chronic venous insufficiency (CVI). CVI is a condition affecting 2 to 5 percent of Americans, triggered by…
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City to Test Bio-Based Asphalt from University, Startup
A lab at Iowa State University in Ames has developed a potential green replacement for asphalt derived from petroleum, which will be put to a test in Iowa’s sometimes extreme winters and summers. The lab, in the Institute for Transportation’s Asphalt Materials and Pavements Program at Iowa State, developed the asphalt substitute, which will be…
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University Spins-Off Port Security Training Company
A research project to develop a new training course in port security at Florida State University (FSU) in Tallahassee has led to a new company that aims to train workers at the nation’s 350 commercial ports. The company, Educational Development Group LLC (EDG), has begun marketing its security training program and online reporting system to…