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    UW Start-Up Nimbic Accelerates Design Solutions for Microelectronics Companies

    UW electrical engineering professor Vikram Jandhyala launched the start-up company Nimbic (formerly Physware) in 2006 to help customers in the microelectronics industry solve design problems for microprocessors, FPGAs, memory, wireless RF systems, analog systems, and high-speed serial and parallel channels. The company’s patented physics-aware technology enables efficient chip-package-system co-design and robustness, and efficiency at every step of the design cycle while significantly reducing time to… View More

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    Rating System for Sustainable Roadways Gains Traction

    Greenroads, a sustainability rating system for roadway design and construction, is not just taking the road to market, it’s blazing the route. Greenroads is helping turn our highways and byways green with sustainability standards for paving materials and recycling, roadway design, noise and pollution mitigation, and protection of environmentally sensitive areas and natural resources. In just four years, the project evolved from a student’s inspiration… View More

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    Start-up Company Focuses on New Approach to Treating Cancer

    When Professor André Lieber first disclosed his novel approach to cancer therapy in 2008, C4C technology manager Angela Loihl immediately recognized it could be “a winner.” Lieber’s team is the only one in the world working to block the action of a key cell surface receptor, CD46, a protein that is active in tumor cells and protects them from being killed by antibodies. The recombinant… View More

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    The Bumblebee: UW Lab Creates Tiny and Energy Efficient Wireless Sensor

    In the world of wireless sensors, size matters—and for many applications, the tinier the better. On a quest for the ultra-small and lightweight, Assistant Professor Brian Otis and his electrical engineering research team are pushing sensor technology into new frontiers. Otis’ team has designed a low-power sensor called the Bumblebee that is four times more energy efficient than existing radio circuits, and the noise efficiency… View More

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    UW’s Clean Tech Start-up EnerG2 Takes a Giant Step With “First in the World” Manufacturing Plant

    UW start-up EnerG2, which develops advanced materials for energy storage, is hitting the growth accelerator. The seven-year-old company, with 25 employees in its Seattle headquarters, is progressing to the large-scale manufacturing stage. The company broke ground in August for a $28-million manufacturing plant in Albany, Ore., largely funded by a $21.3-million federal stimulus grant from the Department of Energy. When the high-tech facility goes online… View More

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    Fate Therapeutics Charts Destiny to World-Leading Stem Cell Company

    Fate Therapeutics is a three-year-old life sciences start-up with fewer than 50 employees, but it has already won high-profile attention. Earlier this year MIT’s Technology Review cited Fate as one of the 50 most innovative companies in the world—alongside Apple, GlaxoSmithKline, and Tesla Motors—for its promising approach to stem cell therapy. And Fate was conceived at UW. Unlike companies that work with embryonic stem cells,… View More

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    UW start-up company, MicroGREEN Polymers, takes recycling to a new level

    A UW spin-off company is on a mission to create a greener cup for your coffee and more environmentally friendly containers for your food. MicroGREEN Polymers, Inc., based in Arlington, Washington, is developing an expanded plastic made from recyclable water bottles (PET). The patented technology, created in the laboratory of Mechanical Engineering Associate Professor Vipin Kumar, creates billions of microcellular bubbles in solid thermoplastics to… View More

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    Research could lead to more accurate testing for coronary artery disease

    Some 150 million blood lipid panels are done annually in the U.S. to assess levels of cholesterol, high-density (HDL “good”) and low-density (LDL “bad”) lipoproteins, and other substances that affect risk for coronary artery disease – the leading cause of death in the U.S. For the 80 percent of the population with levels in a broad range of normal, these tests are as accurate in… View More

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    Software start-up Corensic sees a big future

    The 2008 economic downturn didn’t stop two UW Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) faculty members from launching a software start-up. And it didn’t discourage Madrona Venture Group and WRF Capital from investing $1.5 million in Corensic. The founders, investors, and the UW Center for Commercialization believe the fledgling company has great promise because its products will ensure that complex programs work more reliably. Professor Mark… View More

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    Clinic’s pilot project taps into health care system inefficiencies

    America’s health care system is regularly in the news, with calls for increasing efficiency and effectiveness, expanding access, and reigning in escalating costs. Every health care dollar must be spent responsibly. Mental health and substance abuse problems affect one in four adults in the U.S. each year, and providers seek ways to demonstrate the effectiveness of their interventions to consumers, agencies, and third-party payers. A… View More