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Outstanding Service Award 2019
5/7/2019Drew Bennett, Associate Director of Licensing, Software, Mobile and Digital Technologies, is the inaugural recipient of U-M Innovation Partnerships’s Jessica Soulliere Outstanding Service Award. This award is named for our colleague, Jessica Soulliere, who was a trusted and valued colleague with an exceptional work ethic and a strong commitment to...
Giving Blue Day – Support Our Top Priority
11/27/2018Technology 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...
Censys: The internet security company Dug Song is betting on
11/5/2018UM spinoff Censys monitors all devices connected to the internet for threats Co-founders of Duo Security among early investors Plans to begin raising a Series A round later in 2019 or in 2020 Dug Song knows a good internet security thing when he sees it. And he thinks he has...
Parabricks finds a niche to target its computing power
11/5/2018Parabricks LLC, a 2015 spinoff from the University of Michigan that signed an exclusive licensing agreement with the school last year, is a case study in why entrepreneurs need to be flexible when trying to figure out their business model and who their customers are, or will be. It took...
Evoq Therapeutics catches the eye of big pharma
11/5/2018Pharmaceutical company spun off from UM in 2016 Mission is to “evoke” a better response by the body to cancer immunotherapies Led by experienced managed company with track record of successful pharma startups Evoq Therapeutics LLC, a pharmaceutical company spun off from the University of Michigan in 2016, has a...
U-M hits new record with 21 startups in FY2018
10/29/2018The number of startups launched at the University of Michigan nearly doubled in fiscal year 2018 to 21 as U-M inventors went to market with a broad array of discoveries from autonomous shuttles to a post-surgery warning system that alerts doctors to patient distress well ahead of traditional methods. U-M...
U-M Reports 2018 Rise in Inventions, Licensing, and Startups
10/29/2018Every fall, the University of Michigan formally celebrates the inventions and companies spun out of the school’s research and development efforts. This year, there was a lot to celebrate: according to U-M, a record number of 21 startups were launched during the 2018 fiscal year ending June 30, nearly doubling...
U-M Hits New Record with 21 Startups in FY18
10/21/2018By Greta Guest Michigan News University of Michigan ANN ARBOR—The number of startups launched at the University of Michigan nearly doubled in fiscal year 2018 to 21 as U-M inventors went to market with a broad array of discoveries from autonomous shuttles to a post-surgery warning system that alerts doctors...
Featured Technology at Celebrate Invention 2018
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...