Noted: Thomas “Rock” Mackie has been named to lead the new Isthmus Project, a new accelerator on the UW-Madison campus that is designed to move inventions specifically from UW Health or the UW School of …
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What $1M in Bay Area Startup Dollars Buys You in 12 Other Cities
Noted: Raising $1,000,000 of startup funding in San Francisco, California will buy you $1,421,613 of purchasing power if the startup is based in Madison, Wisconsin. Read the full article at: https://universityresearchpark.org/2019/what-1m-in-bay-area-startup-dollars-buys-you-in-12-other-cities/
WARF bets big on new squad of drug hunters
Noted: WARF Therapeutics, unveiled last week at a meeting on campus, will help UW–Madison investigators deal with a difficult reality: Pharmaceutical companies are reluctant to license newly discovered biological entities (more commonly called “targets”), such …
Making drugs more effective: Madison startup Dianomi Therapeutics draws a $3 million investment
Noted: Based on research from the lab of UW-Madison biomedical engineering professor Bill Murphy, Dianomi says it has devised a way to make medications that attack the source of pain — rather than the pain …
Two UW-Madison researchers have developed a prototype device that could help shorten caregiver response time in a respiratory emergency
Starting Block Social Impact Initiative Startups Named
Congratulations to UW Professor Alfonso Morales for being among those selected to participate with his Farm to Facts project, as well as to NovoMoto, another UW–Madison spinout company taking part in the new initiative.
Game Developed at UW-Madison Helps Fight Opioid Epidemic
A new video game, in development under the direction of assistant pharmacy Professor Olufunmilola Abraham in collaboration with Gear Learning in the Wisconsin Center for Education Research, is an innovative way to teach high schoolers …
UW–Madison Researchers Develop Implantable Weight Loss Device
More than 700 million adults and children worldwide are obese, according to a 2017 study that called the growing number and weight-related health problems a “rising pandemic.” New battery-free, easily implantable weight-loss devices developed by …
Technology Developed at UW–Madison uses Breath to Track Athletic Performance
When one releases a breath, not much thought is given to the information being whisked away. With that rhythmic breath, an individual is exhaling a map to a healthier lifestyle — something to be navigated …
Business School Partners with Clinton Foundation
The Wisconsin School of Business formalized an agreement to become the official UW–Madison liaison with the Clinton Foundation’s Clinton Global Initiative University. CGI U serves to “engage the next generation of leaders on college campuses …