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C4C AnnouncesFall 2012 Commercialization Gap Fund Awards
Nine Research Teams Receive $420,000 to Develop Fledgling Technologies The UW Center for Commercialization (C4C) today announced the award of $420,000 in Commercialization Gap Funds (CGF) to nine UW research teams currently working on promising technologies. The CGF program is a partnership between the C4C and the Washington Research Foundation to provide up to $1.25 million per year to support projects that have a high… View More
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UW’s Promising Therapeutic for Celiac Disease featured in “Chemical and Engineering News”
Celiac disease is one of several diseases involving intolerance to dietary gluten protein that causes serious health problems. UW researcher Ingrid Swanson Pultz and Justin Siegel of the University of California at Davis are developing a promising therapeutic for celiac disease and gluten intolerance that was invented using advanced computational enzyme design. The result, KumaMax, breaks down gluten under the harsh conditions of the human… 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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Four new entrepreneurs-in-residence join C4C
C4C’s highly effective Entrepreneurs-in-Residence (EIR) program invites veteran industry experts to join C4C for six to nine months at a time. During this period, they help identify technologies with commercial promise, and provide UW researchers with real-world insights about the commercialization process along with expertise in target markets, product development, and fundraising strategies. The four newest EIRs are: Robert Barry has over twenty five years… View More
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US Patent & Trademark office Selects UW School of Law for Pilot program
The University of Washington School of Law, through the UW Entrepreneurial Law Clinic (ELC), has been selected to join the United States Patent and Trademark Office’s (USPTO) Patent Law School Clinic Certification Pilot Program, starting this fall. This program will allow ELC students to practice directly before the USPTO under supervision of C4C’s Director of Intellectual Property Management (IPM), Jesse Kindra, who is an attorney… View More
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UW/Nortis Bio Among 17 Recipients of $132M Tissue Chip Project Awards
A Seattle team of UW researchers in partnership with biotech start-up company Nortis, are among 17 research projects funded to improve methods for predicting whether newly developed drugs will be safe in humans by creating human tissues on a chip. NIH, DARPA and the FDA plan to contribute $132 million over the next five years to fund this initiative. The goal is to develop human… View More
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Seattle Times: UW ITHS received its second five-year, $65 million grant from NIH to fund translational science
UW’s Institute of Translational Health Sciences (ITHS), a partnership between the University of Washington, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle Children’s Hospital and other regional institutions along with community and tribal groups, has received its second five-year $65 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The money will fund the translation of researchers’ discoveries into useful medical products, and in the process return… View More
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Three Early Stage UW Start-ups win LSDF’s inaugural corporate grants
July 23, 2012 – The Life Sciences Discovery Fund (LSDF) today announced nearly $570,000 in awards in its inaugural corporate grant program to support commercialization of new health and health-care products by four early-stage Washington-based companies. Three of the four awards were granted to UW start-ups: EchoGuide Medical – producing small, handheld, single-use echolocation devices to guide the insertion of catheters into the brain; Viket… View More
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11 University of Washington Professors Recognized for Successful Commercialization
University of Washington President Michael Young today announced the appointment of 11 new members to the university’s prestigious Presidential Entrepreneurial Faculty Fellows (EFFs) program. This year’s appointees, who will join seven continuing Faculty Fellows, have been selected for their success in translating their research into products and therapies, initiating groundbreaking programs for translation, or collaborating with industry, as well as their ability and motivation to… View More
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UW Medicine is Key Collaborator in an $18 Million Award to Fund Implementation of a New Collaborative Care Management Model
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has awarded nearly $18 million to a national collaboration of partner organizations that includes UW Medicine. The three-year agreement, part of a $1 billion CMS Health Care Innovation Challenge, will fund implementation of an evidence-based collaborative care management model for patients with depression plus diabetes and/or cardiovascular disease in primary care in seven states. UW researcher Jürgen… View More
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