Noted: A device from Madison-based startup Isomark has been shown to detect infections two days before they could be diagnosed in a clinical setting. The study was conducted at four clinical sites, including UW-Madison, where …
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NIH redoubling support in search for new antibiotics
The National Institutes of Health is redoubling support for UW-Madison researchers scouring the world for new sources of antibiotics. This comes as more than two million drug-resistant infections are reported every year, according to the …
A health-minded business accelerator program debuts
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 …
Business & Entrepreneurship Clinic Success Story: Share the Health
The Business & Entrepreneurship (B&E) Clinic likes to follow up with former clients to see how their business has done in the time since consultation has ended. Recently we were able to connect with the …
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
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.