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Innovation Partnerships Profile: Dave Repp
12/21/2017Dave Repp, Assistant Director, Venture Center, focuses on the creation of life science start-up companies and business opportunities based on technologies discovered and developed at the University of Michigan. He has over 15 years of experience in research commercialization, new venture creation, and business consulting in the life sciences and...
Confo Therapeutics Enters Into Drug Discovery Collaboration with Roche
12/19/2017Confo Therapeutics, an emerging drug discovery company, announced today that it has entered into a research collaboration and license agreement with Roche for the discovery, development and commercialisation of novel, small molecule agonists of an undisclosed G-protein coupled receptor (GPCR) for the treatment of neurological and developmental disorders. Under the...
Kelly Sexton to Head U-M Innovation Partnerships
12/8/2017Kelly Sexton, an assistant vice chancellor at North Carolina State University, has been named associate vice president for research — technology transfer and innovation partnerships at the University of Michigan. Her appointment was approved Thursday by the Board of Regents and is effective Jan. 16, 2018. Sexton will provide leadership...
U-M startup Give and Takeinc secures $2.2 million to launch platform that will help enterprises scale knowledge collaboration and build giving cultures
11/21/2017Ann Arbor-based Give and Take Inc., a tech startup that allows employees at companies to better collaborate and share knowledge, announced Thursday morning that it has raised a seed funding round of $2.2 million and launched the beta version of its software platform, called Givitas. The company raised the money...
InflaRx raises $100M in IPO
11/13/2017InflaRx, a German biopharma developing drugs for rare diseases, has raised $100 million in the industry’s third IPO this month. The company sold 6.7 million shares at $15, the midpoint of their $14 to $16 range. Insiders snapped up 40% — or $40 million — of the deal. It’s more...
Neurable: “Brain-Controlled Typing May Be the Killer Advance That AR Needs”
11/13/2017Clicking, typing, and swiping are the norm in 2017. But to streamline the way we use virtual and augmented reality, a startup called Neurable wants to replace all of that with simply thinking. “Every major computational technology has needed an evolution in interaction,” Ramses Alcaide, cofounder and CEO of the...
Celebrate Invention 2017
10/31/2017On Wednesday, October 18, over 350 inventors, entrepreneurs and community leaders gathered at the Michigan League Ballroom to recognize the accomplishments of U-M faculty and researchers at the University’s 17th Annual Celebrate Invention reception. Among those attending the reception were U-M Provost Martin Philbert, U-M VP for Research Jack Hu,...
University of Michigan professor doubles 3D printing speeds using vibration-mitigating algorithm
10/23/2017The Smart and Sustainable Automation Research Laboratory of Chinedum Okwudire, an Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Michigan, has developed a software algorithm called “FBS Vibration Compensation” that effectively doubles 3D printing speeds. Consumer 3D printing has done something that few people would have thought possible a...
U-M Innovation Partnerships reports record number of new inventions
10/23/2017University of Michigan researchers reported 444 new inventions in fiscal year 2017 — up from last year’s 428 — and the fifth straight year of more than 400 inventions from U-M faculty. U-M Innovation Partnerships also had a record 172 U.S. patents issued in FY ’17, up from 135 in...
UM tech transfer office sets record with 444 inventions
10/23/2017The University of Michigan’s faculty, researchers and startups reported a record 444 inventions this year. Researchers topped last year’s 428 inventions to continue its streak of five straight years of more than 400 inventions, a UM news release said. The UM Technology Transfer Office tallied 172 U.S. patents this year,...
U-M Innovation Partnerships Reports Record Number of New Inventions
10/19/2017University of Michigan researchers reported 444 new inventions in fiscal year 2017 — up from last year’s 428 — and the fifth straight year of more than 400 inventions from U-M faculty. U-M Innovation Partnerships also had a record 172 U.S. patents issued in FY ’17, up from 135 in...
Phrixus to Launch Clinical Trials for Duchenne Drug in Early 2018
10/17/2017After showing some early promise in treating European patients, Ann Arbor, MI-based Phrixus Pharmaceuticals, a startup developing drugs to treat cardiac and respiratory problems in young males with Duchenne muscular dystrophy, is preparing to launch U.S. clinical trials early next year. During the first quarter of 2018, Phrixus will dose...