Fast Forward Newsletter Get updates about news, events, new inventions, and ecosystem opportunities each month. SUBSCRIBE Image Inventors from across the UArizona who had been awarded patents in the past decade gathered at Tech Launch Arizona’s offices to receive commemorative coins emblazoned with their names and patent information, and share in a celebration of World Intellectual Property Day recognized annually on April 26. Tech Launch Arizona April 26, 2023 UArizona ranks 29 among top 100 universities granted US utility patents in 2022 Read more April 6, 2023 The University of Arizona and Foundery Sign Master Agreement to Translate Novel Discoveries into Transformational Immunotherapies Read more Image March 28, 2023 Protection for the ‘Internet of Things’ fueled by Arizona innovation has arrived Read more Image March 21, 2023 College of Engineering celebrates patent inventors Read more Image Image Startup Metfora to advance development of AI-enabled diagnostic technology March 7, 2023 Startup Metfora, LLC is the recipient of a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase l Award from the NSF to pursue the detection of chronic diseases via multiplex analysis of circulating metabolites. They will receive a one-year grant of $255,706 to expand a diagnostic technology developed at the UArizona College of Medicine – Tucson. Read more Image For student success, Science of Sport hits a home run March 6, 2023 The United States ranks 25th out of 37 nations in mathematics literacy as listed by the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). Systems Engineering Professor Ricardo Valerdi came up with a solution that's now impacting hundreds of thousands of students around the nation. Read more UArizona bioscience startup selected for Flinn Foundation program March 2, 2023 With help from Tech Launch Arizona, TheraCea was launched in 2020 to develop diagnostic agents that allow oncologists and pharmaceutical companies to select the right segment of patients who will be responsive to specific immunotherapy drugs. Read more Image UArizona COVID-19 treatment takes next step toward public impact via license to pharmaceutical company Feb. 27, 2023 UArizona researchers have been developing a new compound that inhibits SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19. The university has now exclusively licensed the technology to Sunshine Biopharma Inc. to take forward for further development and testing. Read more Image Innovative faculty elected to the National Academy of Inventors Feb. 15, 2023 The National Academy of Inventors has announced three more UArizona innovators to its list of Senior Members. All will be inducted into the Academy at an event in Washington, D.C., this summer. Read more Image Startup Paramium Technologies to scale up business of shaping precision satellite reflectors Feb. 2, 2023 UArizona startup Paramium Technologies recently secured a $1M SBIR grant to scale up their business of producing highly customized curved reflectors for radio astronomy and satellite communications. Read more Image UArizona partners with regional universities in re-envisioned NSF I-Corps Hub program Jan. 17, 2023 In 2011, the National Science Foundation launched the I-Corps program to teach teams – each consisting of a principal investigator, an entrepreneurial lead, and a business mentor – how use the customer discovery process to quickly assess the market potential of their inventions. The inaugural Desert and Pacific Region I-Corps Cohort will begin on Friday, January 27 and run each Friday until February 24. Applications open! Read more Image What do you do with an early-stage invention? Move it forward with Asset Development funding. Jan. 10, 2023 Inventions that come out of research are often early stage and not ready to be considered for the business world. The TLA Asset Development program provides funding to move inventions toward market readiness. Funds are available, the time to apply is now. Read more Image UArizona nutrition expert named to National Academy of Inventors Dec. 8, 2022 University of Arizona professor Floyd "Ski" Chilton has been named a fellow of the National Academy of Inventors, the highest professional distinction awarded to academic inventors. Read more Image Startup RaeSedo Inc. awarded $3.4M STTR Grant to Develop New Asthma Therapies Nov. 21, 2022 UArizona researchers in partnership with a local bioindustry startup have been awarded $3.4 million to advance new asthma therapies originally developed at the UA College of Medicine – Tucson and the BIO5 Institute. Read more Image Researchers develop drug to treat Alzheimer's disease in Down syndrome patients Nov. 17, 2022 Arizona researchers have co-invented a drug that may dramatically slow the onset of Alzheimer's disease. They have started a company to commercialize the invention and have now received a $3.5M federal STTR grant to prepare the drug for clinical trials. Read more Image UArizona celebrates 10 years of innovation, commercialization and impact Oct. 13, 2022 On October 11, 2022, TLA hosted its ninth annual I-Squared Awards and Expo. Along with honoring the top inventors, entrepreneurs, and community leaders dedicated to commercializing UArizona inventions, the office celebrated its 10th anniversary. Read more Pagination 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 … ›› Next page Last » Last page
Image Inventors from across the UArizona who had been awarded patents in the past decade gathered at Tech Launch Arizona’s offices to receive commemorative coins emblazoned with their names and patent information, and share in a celebration of World Intellectual Property Day recognized annually on April 26. Tech Launch Arizona April 26, 2023 UArizona ranks 29 among top 100 universities granted US utility patents in 2022 Read more
April 6, 2023 The University of Arizona and Foundery Sign Master Agreement to Translate Novel Discoveries into Transformational Immunotherapies Read more Image
March 28, 2023 Protection for the ‘Internet of Things’ fueled by Arizona innovation has arrived Read more Image
Image Startup Metfora to advance development of AI-enabled diagnostic technology March 7, 2023 Startup Metfora, LLC is the recipient of a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase l Award from the NSF to pursue the detection of chronic diseases via multiplex analysis of circulating metabolites. They will receive a one-year grant of $255,706 to expand a diagnostic technology developed at the UArizona College of Medicine – Tucson. Read more
Image For student success, Science of Sport hits a home run March 6, 2023 The United States ranks 25th out of 37 nations in mathematics literacy as listed by the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). Systems Engineering Professor Ricardo Valerdi came up with a solution that's now impacting hundreds of thousands of students around the nation. Read more
UArizona bioscience startup selected for Flinn Foundation program March 2, 2023 With help from Tech Launch Arizona, TheraCea was launched in 2020 to develop diagnostic agents that allow oncologists and pharmaceutical companies to select the right segment of patients who will be responsive to specific immunotherapy drugs. Read more
Image UArizona COVID-19 treatment takes next step toward public impact via license to pharmaceutical company Feb. 27, 2023 UArizona researchers have been developing a new compound that inhibits SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19. The university has now exclusively licensed the technology to Sunshine Biopharma Inc. to take forward for further development and testing. Read more
Image Innovative faculty elected to the National Academy of Inventors Feb. 15, 2023 The National Academy of Inventors has announced three more UArizona innovators to its list of Senior Members. All will be inducted into the Academy at an event in Washington, D.C., this summer. Read more
Image Startup Paramium Technologies to scale up business of shaping precision satellite reflectors Feb. 2, 2023 UArizona startup Paramium Technologies recently secured a $1M SBIR grant to scale up their business of producing highly customized curved reflectors for radio astronomy and satellite communications. Read more
Image UArizona partners with regional universities in re-envisioned NSF I-Corps Hub program Jan. 17, 2023 In 2011, the National Science Foundation launched the I-Corps program to teach teams – each consisting of a principal investigator, an entrepreneurial lead, and a business mentor – how use the customer discovery process to quickly assess the market potential of their inventions. The inaugural Desert and Pacific Region I-Corps Cohort will begin on Friday, January 27 and run each Friday until February 24. Applications open! Read more
Image What do you do with an early-stage invention? Move it forward with Asset Development funding. Jan. 10, 2023 Inventions that come out of research are often early stage and not ready to be considered for the business world. The TLA Asset Development program provides funding to move inventions toward market readiness. Funds are available, the time to apply is now. Read more
Image UArizona nutrition expert named to National Academy of Inventors Dec. 8, 2022 University of Arizona professor Floyd "Ski" Chilton has been named a fellow of the National Academy of Inventors, the highest professional distinction awarded to academic inventors. Read more
Image Startup RaeSedo Inc. awarded $3.4M STTR Grant to Develop New Asthma Therapies Nov. 21, 2022 UArizona researchers in partnership with a local bioindustry startup have been awarded $3.4 million to advance new asthma therapies originally developed at the UA College of Medicine – Tucson and the BIO5 Institute. Read more
Image Researchers develop drug to treat Alzheimer's disease in Down syndrome patients Nov. 17, 2022 Arizona researchers have co-invented a drug that may dramatically slow the onset of Alzheimer's disease. They have started a company to commercialize the invention and have now received a $3.5M federal STTR grant to prepare the drug for clinical trials. Read more
Image UArizona celebrates 10 years of innovation, commercialization and impact Oct. 13, 2022 On October 11, 2022, TLA hosted its ninth annual I-Squared Awards and Expo. Along with honoring the top inventors, entrepreneurs, and community leaders dedicated to commercializing UArizona inventions, the office celebrated its 10th anniversary. Read more