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U-M cybersecurity startup QuadMetrics calculates odds a company will be breached
1/12/2016QuadMetrics Inc. says it can predict with greater than 90% accuracy the likelihood that a company will be breached within the next year…
J&J announces collaboration with U-M startup HistoSonics for non-invasive solid tumor treatment
1/11/2016Although surgical resection remains the gold standard treatment for solid tumors, approximately 85 percent of patients are not candidates for surgical resection, particularly those with cancers of the liver and pancreas. Ethicon Endo-Surgery, Inc. has entered into a collaboration with HistoSonics, a company developing histotripsy, a non-invasive soft tissue ablation...
Rapid Oxygen seeks to bring new emergency oxygen system to market
1/11/2016Rapid Oxygen Company wants to breathe fresh air into the stale medical oxygen systems market using technology from the University of Michigan Department of Emergency Medicine. Current supplemental oxygen systems use portable concentrators, high pressure gas cylinders, or chemical generators – technology largely unchanged since the 1940s. These “state-of-the-art” systems...
U-M startup Millendo announces $62M Series B to pursue endocrine disorder therapies
1/5/2016What started as research into one of the most rare types of cancer has expanded into a portfolio that includes a potential treatment for the most common endocrine disease in women…
ViewPoint Therapeutics signs license with U-M for potential cataract treatment
12/17/2015A chemical that could potentially be used in eye drops to reverse cataracts, the leading cause of blindness, has been identified by a team of scientists from the University of Michigan (U-M), UC San Francisco (UCSF) and Washington University in St. Louis (WUSTL)…
Materialise and U-M startup TRS announce partnership to manufacture 3D-printed tracheal splints
12/9/2015Today, Materialise (NASDAQ: MTLS) and Tissue Regeneration Systems (TRS) announce a partnership to manufacture life-saving 3D-Printed tracheal splints for use in clinical trials…
Sony launches connected tennis racket with U-M tech
12/8/2015Just months after Wilson Sporting Goods launched its Wilson X Connected Basketball employing patented technology from the University of Michigan lab of Noel Perkins, Sony, through a sub-license with Wilson, has come to market with a smart tennis sensor based on the same underlying U-M technology. The sensor, when affixed...
U-M and Belgium company Materialise sign license agreement for life-saving 3D-printed tracheal splints
12/7/2015A new agreement opens the door for groundbreaking, 3D-printed technology that saved four babies’ lives to help more children at C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital. The University of Michigan and Belgium-based Materialise, which has a Plymouth branch, signed a license agreement on Thursday that will ultimately commercialize the 3D printed splints...
U-M startup Genomenon wants to help doctors beat cancer
12/7/2015Like a lot of tech startups, Ann Arbor-based Genomenon has a name that’s a little hard to say and a suite of products that’s hard for non-techies to understand. What’s clear is Genomenon’s overarching mission to help doctors finder the fastest, most effective treatments for patients with cancer and other...
Praktio’s Digital Tools Help Students, Attorneys Navigate Legalese
12/4/2015Anyone who has ever tried to read a contract or service agreement dense with layers of legalese knows it can be a challenge. Turns out law students are often no less confused than lay people, said University of Michigan law professor Michael Bloom, and that’s why he decided to start...
U-M startup Arborlight shines a light forward as it ramps up revenues
11/19/2015When Michael Forbis thinks about sales he doesn’t have to worry about setting sales goals at his startup, Arborlight. “We have shipped more than $100,000 in product in the last four months,” Forbis says. “We have a pipeline of $1.3 million in sales opportunities right now. It just keeps growing...
Pathion acquires U-M energy storage startup Spider9
11/11/2015PATHION Inc. today announced that it has closed an exclusive asset purchase and licensing agreement with Spider9 Inc., a provider of energy storage systems (ESS) and robust software that deliver industry leading reliability and performance. The agreement includes all of Spider9’s intellectual property, licenses, and products. PATHION has begun to...