Noted: Discussion of the rise of biomedical engineering departments (BMEs) at universities, referencing linkages between the BerbeeWalsh Prototype Pathway at the Morgridge Institute for Research, BME design courses at UW–Madison, patenting and licensing support from …
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Drawing venture capital in an agtech startup
Noted: Kieran Furlong with Discovery to Product is also a partner with Finistere Ventures, where he makes venture capital investment decisions. Furlong appeared on the Salt of the Earth podcast to share insights on criteria …
UW-Madison spinoff Atrility’s device improves pediatric heart rhythm monitoring
The mother of invention visited Nicholas Von Bergen while he was caring for a newborn in the pediatric intensive care unit at American Family Children’s Hospital. Without the recent heart surgery, the infant faced a …
UW alum masterminding next generation data storage: A solution to the datapocalypse?
CATALOG, a Boston company co-founded by a recent UW–Madison Ph.D., is preparing to demonstrate the world’s fastest, densest DNA-based data-warehouse.
Isomark test detects infections two days before formal diagnosis
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 …
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 …