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/
Stories
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
Getting to know D2P
Bringing your dream to market is hard work. Navigating resources shouldn’t be. An interview with Discovery to Product (D2P) director Andrew Richards about leading the redesigned D2P program at UW–Madison, which is working to build …
Entrepreneurship on Campus: Using Data to Identify Emerging Entrepreneurs
On the surface, young student entrepreneurs on college campuses might look like any other students. But delve a little deeper and their patterns might be markedly different.
UW Alum featured in Forbes for Social Entrepreneurship
Read how Georges Clement, cofounder of the nonprofit JustFix.nyc, works as an advocate helping to empower New York City tenants.
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.
Weinert Center Announces Distinguished Entrepreneurs Lunch Series
The Weinert Center for Entrepreneurship offers a weekly Distinguished Entrepreneurs Lunch program where local experts on entrepreneurship tell their unique story and answer questions from students on the UW campus. The sessions occur during the …
Program Connects Students with Entrepreneurs
The Wisconsin Small Business Development Center (SBDC) announced a unique partnership that connects UW–Madison students with entrepreneurs-in-training. The partnership is part of SBDC’s successful Entrepreneurial Training Program, a grant-funded program for entrepreneurial businesses in Dane, …