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IMPACT Newsletter – June 2020
6/1/2020U-M and Deerfield Leaders Celebrate the Launch of Great Lakes Discovery
Deerfield Commits up to $130M to Commercialize Drug Discovery at the University of Michigan
5/27/2020By Jeff Karoub, Michigan News ANN ARBOR—A new partnership between the University of Michigan and health care investment firm Deerfield Management Co. will create a company to commercialize therapeutic projects that hold promise in solving unmet medical needs. U-M and Deerfield on Wednesday announced the launch of Great Lakes Discoveries...
Breakthrough Technology for Extracting Insights from Raw Video Footage at Scale
5/25/2020Today, billions of video cameras are being used by cities and businesses worldwide to collect potentially valuable information. However, until now, tagging content and extracting useful information from raw video footage has been a laborious, cost-prohibitive process requiring an initial frame-by-frame analysis of objects by human beings. In 2017, U-M...
IMPACT Newsletter – April 29, 2020
4/29/2020During the last fiscal year, members of the University of Michigan Innovation Partnerships team worked with U-M researchers on a record-breaking 502 inventions, successfully negotiating 232 agreements with industry, and launching 22 new companies.
IMPACT Newsletter – April 2020
4/3/2020U-M Innovation Partnerships and the Fight Against COVID-19
Our Fight Against COVID-19
4/3/2020“The situation we face today would have been unimaginable for many of us just weeks ago. As COVID-19 has changed the way we work and live, the U-M Innovation Partnerships team has been giving considerable thought as to how we can best assist in the fight against COVID-19. While the...
Optimizing Micro-Particle Drug Delivery Systems for Acute Inflammatory Disease
4/2/2020The Eniola-Adefeso Lab Typically, white blood cells are a key agent in repairing tissue, controlling infection, and defeating disease. But in the case of acute lung injury, which has a mortality rate of 40 to 60 percent, white blood cells exacerbate the problem by breaking down vascular barriers to the...
COVID-19 Announcement: Update on Innovation Partnerships
3/16/2020Message from U-M Innovation Partnerships In order to help slow the spread of the coronavirus through the local community, many members of the U-M Innovation Partnerships team are currently working remotely. It is our sincere hope that we will be able to provide the same degree of phenomenal customer service...
IMPACT Newsletter – December 2019
12/20/20192019 was a wonderful year for innovation, technology commercialization and impact at the University of Michigan.
Giving Blueday – Support Accelerate Blue Fund
12/3/2019Technology Transfer transforms U-M research discoveries into technologies that improve our quality of life and fuel economic development. Inventions from U-M Technology Transfer changed the way we are vaccinated from the flu. They have changed the way doctors monitor critical patients. And we are paving the way towards the connected...
University of Michigan Accelerate Blue Fund
11/25/2019The University of Michigan Accelerate Blue Fund (“Accelerate Blue” or the “Fund”) is a new early-stage investment fund approved by the Regents of the University of Michigan on October 17, 2019. Accelerate Blue is a collaborative, cross-campus effort led by the U-M Innovation Partnerships Venture Center in support of U-M...
Accelerate Blue Fund
10/18/2019New investment fund to offer early-stage capital for U-M startups Michigan News | by Dave Wilkins U-M Innovation Partnerships, the unit responsible for commercializing University of Michigan research discoveries and innovations, will create the Accelerate Blue Fund to provide seed capital to nascent U-M startup companies. Creation of the fund...