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Short Film about UW technology “tumor paint” competing in Sundance Festival
A short (3 min) film about Tumor Paint, a technology invented by the UW, Fred Hutch, and Children’s Hospital, has been created and submitted to the Sundance Film Festival. Tumor Paint makes cancer cells in the brain light up so that they can be more easily identified and removed during surgery such that more healthy tissue can be preserved. The film is a semi-finalist for… View More
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Tabletop Card Game “Control-Alt-Hack” Released by UW Researchers
UW Spin-out RGB Hats has announced the release of a new computer security-themed card game titled Control-Alt-Hack™: White Hat Hacking for Fun and Profit, based on the mechanics of Ninja Burger from gaming powerhouse Steve Jackson Games. Players of Control-Alt-Hack work for Hackers, Inc., an elite computer security company of ethical (a.k.a., white hat) hackers who perform security audits and provide consultation services. Their motto?… View More
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GeekWire Spotlights Michael Young as “2012 Newsmaker” for Championing UW Commercialization
UW President Michael Young has been identified by GeekWire as a “2012 Newsmaker” on GeekWire this month, leading up to the GeekWire Gala on Dec. 6 at McCaw Hall in Seattle. Young earned this distinction for his pledge to double the number of start-ups coming out of the UW, and his support of the UW Center for Commercialization’s initiatives to achieve this goal. Initiatives include… View More
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Nascent UW Spin-out PatientStream has broad ambitions in the $2.5 trillion health care industry
[Excerpted from Foster Business, Fall 2012] It began with a problem. A glaring inefficiency of the modern hospital that is as pervasive as it is puzzling. In this age of digitized everything, the status of virtually every patient in virtually every medical department in America is manually tracked by erasable marker on an overcrowded white board. Still. Ben Andersen (UW MBA 2012) took up the… View More
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UW Spin-out Resolve Therapeutics Raises $5.8 Million in Private Financing
Seattle, WA – (November 1, 2012) – Resolve Therapeutics, LLC today announced that the company has raised $5.8 million in a Series B private-equity financing. The financing was led by previous investor New Science Ventures, with the participation of new investor WRF Capital (venture investment arm of Washington Research Foundation) and previous investor Easton Capital. “These funds give Resolve the necessary resources to advance our… View More
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GEEKWIRE: Mobile vet David Bluhm named UW entrepreneur-in-residence
Seattle entrepreneur David Bluhm has joined the University of Washington’s entrepreneur-in-residence program as part of an ongoing effort by the university to match experienced Seattle area business leaders with new innovations emerging from the school. As part of the appointment, the co-founder of Z2Live, Medio Systems, 2Way and HandsOn Mobile is sifting through a handful of new technologies in a diverse set of arenas. Read… View More
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