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Materialise and U-M startup TRS announce partnership to manufacture 3D-printed tracheal splints

12/9/2015
Today, 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

12/8/2015
Just 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

12/7/2015
A 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

12/7/2015
Like 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

12/4/2015
Anyone 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

11/19/2015
When 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

11/11/2015
PATHION 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...

MTRAC: U-M Program Takes Transportation Innovations from Lab to Marketplace

11/10/2015
University of Michigan researchers and faculty developing innovations that address transportation and mobility challenges have a path from the lab to the marketplace thanks to the Michigan Translational Research and Commercialization (MTRAC) Transportation program, which received $1 million to advance university startups in 2015, the program’s second year…

U-M startup Kura Oncology goes public, raises $50 million

11/6/2015
La Jolla, California-based Kura Oncology Inc, a biopharmaceutical company focused on treating solid tumors and blood cancers, has raised $50 million for its IPO after pricing its 6.25 million shares at $8 per share. The stock began trading Thursday on the NASDAQ under the ticker symbol “KURA.” Citigroup and Leerink...

U-M startups Genomenon and FlexDex place at Accelerate Michigan 2015

11/6/2015
After two days of presentations at the Westin Book Cadillac Hotel in downtown Detroit, the winners of the 6th annual Accelerate Michigan Innovation Competition have been announced. At stake was more than $1 million in cash prizes plus awards of services, staffing and software…

U-M startup Rubicon Genomics finds its niche in analysis kits

11/4/2015
Emerging tech companies call them pivots, a polite way of describing what is usually a drastic change in operations to figure out how to generate enough revenue to keep the lights on. When James Koziarz, a longtime executive at Abbott Laboratories, came out of retirement to take over as CEO...

Phasiq: U-M spinoff company started with grants gets first outside investment

11/4/2015
Ann Arbor-based Phasiq Inc., a University of Michigan spinoff that has been funded to date with large federal grants, has received its first institutional funding, an investment of $36,000 from the school’s student-run Zell Lurie Commercialization Fund…