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Neurable: A Game You Can Control With Your Mind [NYT]

8/28/2017
When you pull the headset over your eyes and the game begins, you are transported to a tiny room with white walls. Your task is to break out of the room, but you cannot use your hands. There is no joystick or game pad. You must use your thoughts. You...

UMD receives $3.3M Department of Education grant to evaluate U-M startup Ventris Learning’s dialect shifting curriculum Toggle Talk

8/24/2017
Researchers at the University of Maryland were recently awarded a $3.3 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education Institute of Education Sciences to investigate the efficacy of Toggle Talk—a proprietary curriculum intended to help young children learn to shift between various American English dialects and Academic Classroom English. Young...

Innovation Partnerships’s NAB Celebrates 15 Years of Progress

7/14/2017
The U-M Innovation Partnerships National Advisory Board (NAB) celebrated its 15 year anniversary with a dinner and meeting on May 9th and 10th. The NAB is composed of leaders from the business, venture, university and local communities and provides advice and network contacts to enhance the effectiveness of our tech...

Using Sound to Hack Critical Vehicle Sensors

7/14/2017
Having demonstrated that sound waves can be used to hack sensors in everything from cars to smartphones, a University of Michigan team led by Associate Professor of Computer Science and Engineering Kevin Fu, has developed  software that can effectively detect and prevent malicious acoustic interference. This is of particular interest...

ONL Secures Series A Funding

7/14/2017
University of Michigan startup ONL Therapeutics, Inc. recently announced the closing of a $4.25 million Series A funding round. According to the company, which is developing novel therapeutics for preserving sight in a range of retinal diseases, these funds, along with a recently awarded $1 million grant from the National...

Innovation Partnerships Profile: Ed Pagani

7/14/2017
Ed Pagani, Associate Director for Health Technologies at U-M Innovation Partnerships, joined the Innovation Partnerships team in 2014, after an impressive early career working for such well-known healthcare companies as Pfizer, Sterling Winthrop and Beckman Coulter. Ed is responsible for the assessment, protection, marketing and licensing of promising medical technologies...

IP Best Practices Forum Meets at U-M Innovation Partnerships

7/14/2017
In 1998 representatives from approximately 15 of the most well-respected, technology-driven global corporations came together to create the Intellectual Property Best Practices Forum to exchange best practices related to the commercialization of intellectual property. While membership in the organization has evolved over the past 20 years, the mission has remained...

Arcascope Pursues Circadian Solutions for the Jet-Lagged

7/14/2017
Olivia Walch wasn’t planning to start a company when she developed Entrain, an app that helps travelers shift their circadian rhythms to reduce jet lag in a new time zone. But when Entrain attracted 50,000 downloads in a single week, Walch realized she had something powerful on her hands. Users...

Ken Nisbet’s Send-off Celebration Caps 20-Year Career

7/14/2017
A festive celebration was held on May 23, 2017 at the Michigan League in honor of Ken Nisbet as he retired from the University of Michigan. Here are some photos that showed the distinguished speakers and guests who enjoyed telling stories (some true) and celebrating Ken’s 20-year career at U-M...

J&J Acquires TRS 3D Printing Tech to Treat Bone Defects

7/14/2017
DePuy Synthes Products, Inc., part of the Johnson & Johnson (J&J) family of companies, has acquired 3D printing technology from University of Michigan startup Tissue Regeneration Systems (TRS). The 3D printing methods developed by TRS will help enable DePuy Synthes to create patient-specific, bioresorbable implants with a unique mineral coating...

After 3-Year Partnership, DePuy Acquires TRS Scaffolding Technology

4/21/2017
In 2014, Plymouth, MI-based biotech startup Tissue Regeneration Systems (TRS) began collaborating with DePuy Synthes Products, a company under the Johnson & Johnson umbrella making orthopedic products, such as the devices used in joint replacements. This week, DePuy formalized that relationship with the announcement that it has acquired TRS’s FDA-approved,...

Diamond Kinetics Launches “Smart Bat” with Marucci

4/21/2017
Just in time for the start of baseball season, Pittsburgh-based U-M startup Diamond Kinetics and Baton Rouge-based sporting goods company Marucci Sports have announced a partnership to produce a new line of handcrafted maple bats that incorporate an array of emdedded “smart” sensors to collect, analyze and deliver swing data...