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10/14/2018FIRST-IN-CLASS THERAPEUTICS – Small-molecule dual inhibitors of the anti-apoptotic Mcl-1 and Bfl-1 proteins for the treatment of cancer. Cancer adapts the ability to evade apoptosis (programmed cell death). The Mcl-1 and Bfl-1 proteins, upregulated in many cancers, block the pro-death response and are key resistance factors. We developed first-in-class dual...
Michigan’s Gérard Mourou wins the Nobel Prize for Physics
10/3/2018University of Michigan Professor and Frenchman Gerard Mourou won a Nobel Prize in Physics on Tuesday for work with lasers. The award is shared with two others, Donna Strickland, a Canadian physicist, and Arthur Ashkin of Bell Laboratories in New Jersey. Mourou and Strickland helped develop short and intense laser...
Celebrate Invention 2018
9/26/2018WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1 – 6 PM U-M Innovation Partnerships will host its annual Celebrate Invention event at the Michigan League Ballroom, brief remarks at 3:45 pm with special guests: Kelly Sexton, AVP for Research and Innovative Partnerships Jack Hu, Vice President for Research Andrei Iancu, USPTO Director Mingyan Liu,...
PsiKick rolls out batteryless IoT sensor tech for steam traps, delivering cost-saving insights across a range of industrial environments
9/11/2018PsiKick Steam Trap Monitor Enables Real-Time Alerts for Quick Intervention to Avoid Costs of Wasted Energy and Downtime; PsiKick’s Complete System Spans Sensing Hardware to Cloud Analytics SANTA CLARA, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–PsiKick, Inc., a venture-backed startup pioneering batteryless IoT systems, today announced its Steam Trap Monitor (STM), which is designed to...
Ascentage third round garners $150M for apoptosis cancer drugs
8/14/2018Chinese biotech Ascentage has raised another $150 million for its pipeline of drugs designed to induce programmed cell death in cancer, which should keep it going for three years, according to its co-founder and CEO. Dajun Yang M.D., Ph.D., told FierceBiotech that the series C cash injection will help it...
U-M startup Fifth Eye detects trouble in hospital patients before vital signs do
8/14/2018When University of Michigan researchers started getting spontaneous hugs from nurses while testing their system that monitors the autonomic nervous system of hospital patients and predicts problems, they knew they were on to something. “Any patient within the hospital currently being monitored by an electrocardiogram, or EKG, has the potential...
U-M Innovation Partnerships Mentor-in-Residence Peter Falzon joins Ripple Science as CEO
8/14/2018Peter Falzon, a Silicon Valley life sciences industry veteran, has been named as President and CEO by Ripple Science Corporation, a 2017 University of Michigan technology startup that creates transformational clinical trial participant recruitment and management software. Peter joins Ripple Science at a critical juncture into the company’s product market...
University of Michigan team creates an even smaller world’s smallest ‘computer’
8/14/2018-Measures in at 0.3 millimeters on each side -Could be useful in studying tumors for oncology research -Device nearly 10 times smaller than a computer introduced as the world’s smallest by IBM in March Just how tiny is the world’s smallest computer? According to a team of University of Michigan...
Plasma satellite propulsion startup Phase Four: We’re already booking commercial orders
8/13/2018[Story from the Space Intel Report cannot be cut and pasted.]
Millendo Therapeutics goes public with OvaScience reverse merger
8/13/2018Millendo Therapeutics, an Ann Arbor, MI-based biotech company developing drugs to treat endocrine diseases, is now a public company and has $30 million of new cash to continue work on its treatments for rare disorders. Millendo announced this morning that it plans to merge with OvaScience (Nasdaq: OVAS), which was...
Vesper MEMS in the WSJ: Tiny microphones are moving us toward a world where all gadgets can respond to a voice command
7/13/2018If every tree falling in every forest might soon be heard by an internet-connected microphone, what hope is there for our privacy? Already when you’re sitting in a room with an iPhone, an Apple Watch and a smart assistant like Amazon Echo or Google Home, you’re surrounded by a dozen...
Detroit becomes the first city in America to deploy independent self-driving vehicles in an urban core on public roads
6/27/2018DETROIT, June 26, 2018 — May Mobility, an Ann Arbor startup building self-driving vehicles, in partnership with Bedrock, a full-service real estate firm, today announced the first commercial deployment of independent autonomous vehicles on public streets in any urban core in America. The partnership will immediately embed self-driving shuttles into...