Student Innovation Challenge 2020

Attention student innovators! Want to be a UArizona inventor? The Student Innovation Challenge 2020 is on, and up to $50,000 in project funding will be awarded. Apply now.

Applied Research Corporation Enters into New Teaming Agreement with Revolutionary Antenna Developer and UArizona Startup, FreeFall Aerospace, Inc.

Applied Research Corporation Enters into New Teaming Agreement with Revolutionary Antenna Developer and UArizona Startup, FreeFall Aerospace, Inc.

Four UArizona Inventors Named Senior Members of National Academy of Inventors

Four UArizona Inventors Named Senior Members of National Academy of Inventors

UArizona Startups Generate Over $585M in Impact in Three Years

UArizona Startups Generate Over $585M in Impact in Three Years

Two More UArizona Faculty Named to National Academy of Inventors

Two More UArizona Faculty Named to National Academy of Inventors

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Do you have an idea stemming from your work at the UA that can improve lives? Before you present or publish your research, call TLA.

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Eureka! When Research Gives Rise to Invention

A Panel Discussion with Innovative Researchers of the College of Medicine – Phoenix and Tech Launch Arizona

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Connect HERE

Connect HERE - a Phoenix mixer with Tech Launch Arizona

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TLA PRESENTS Company Structure: Preparing for the Task Ahead, continued

TLA PRESENTS Company Structure: Preparing for the Task Ahead, continued

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Health Economics from a Payer's Perspective

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Nathan Cherrington, Ph.D., ATS, Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Studies and Professor Photo credit: Alison Mairena

Tech Blog: NASH Diagnostic Discovered

With funds from the National Institute of Health, Nathan Cherrington, Ph.D., ATS, Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Studies and Professor at the College of Pharmacy has created a non-invasive diagnostic for Nonalcoholic Steatohepatitis (NASH), a chronic liver disease.

Alexander Alvarez and Sonia Vohnout demonstrate the acoustoelectric cardiac imaging invention. Photo credit: Eddie San Juan/Tech Launch Arizona

Startup Sees Future for UArizona Breakthrough Heart Imaging Technology

Professor of Medical Imaging, Optical Sciences, and Biomedical Engineering Russell Witte has developed a new medical imaging technique for cardiac applications and has worked with TLA to launch startup ElectroSonix to bring the invention to the world.

Goggy Davidowitz, Ph.D, and Hunter Clark, Research Technician sifting through insects. Photo credit: Alison Mairena/Tech Launch Arizona

Tech Blog: Repurposing Food Waste

Off campus at the Entomology Farm, behind the trays and trays of mealworms and various insects native to Arizona, is Goggy Davidowitz, Ph.D., a professor in the Department of Entomology, who has created an innovative way to repurpose food waste to produce sustainable insect protein for food products.

Honorees James C. Waynt, Fletcher McCusker, Doug Stetson and Louise Hecker. Photo credit: Paul Tumarkin/Tech Launch Arizona

UArizona Accomplishments Honored With Governor's Innovation Awards

At the Governor's Celebration of Innovation Awards, entrepreneurial researchers and friends of the University of Arizona received several awards. Learn more about the event and the honorees.

Four people standing in a conference room in between sessions, having conversations.

Women in STEM Unconference Promotes Diverse Inventors, Mentors and Entrepreneurs

On October 1, TLA held the first "Flourish HERE" Unconference, dedicated to engaging women and allies in STEM fields to forward invention and commercialization at the UA. Check out the video and wrapup.

Shane Reiser in front of bushes.

Bringing a Global Perspective to the TLA Commercialization Network

He brings together startup, corporate and non-profit experience to wrangle TLA's 1,600-person network. Meet Commercialization Network Manager Shane Reiser and newest member of the TLA team.