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Applications for the 2025 IdeaFunding pitch competition are now live. Entrepreneurs and early-stage Arizona companies must submit applications by 11:59 p.m. on Jan. 14, 2025.

Two University of Arizona faculty members have been elected fellows of the National Academy of Inventors class of 2024. Shibin Jiang and Abhijit Mahalanobis have developed influential inventions that have earned them the highest professional honor exclusively available to academic inventors.

Did you know that postpartum hemorrhage affects around 14 million women each year globally? U of A inventor Elise Erickson and her collaborators have developed a test that uses blood or saliva to assess the risk of postpartum hemorrhage and potential responsiveness to oxytocin.

Hong Hua, inventor and professor of optical sciences, has been featured in the Bayh-Dole Coalition's 2024 "Faces of American Innovation" report. The Coalition has recognized her for her development of a revolutionary vision correction device that helps many legally blind people to see.

At this year's World Intellectual Property Day celebration, Tech Launch Arizona honored over 70 innovators who had more than 100 patents issued for their innovations in the past fiscal year. Each inventor received a custom-minted challenge coin emblazoned with their patent information.

Forty-nine percent of college students aged 18-22 consumed alcohol within the past month. Developed at the University of Arizona by Spencer Gorin, a proven program called "The Buzz" offers an innovative and dynamic approach to alcohol education through its method and curriculum.

Two startups launched to commercialize UArizona inventions have been selected to participate in the exclusive Flinn Bioscience Entrepreneurship Program. Through the program, each will receive $30,000 in non-dilutive funding along with a one-year plan to help them advance their companies and technologies, and become investor-ready.

For Women's History month, Tech Launch Arizona looked to two leading innovators – Dr. Joyce Schroeder and Dr. Melissa Herbst-Kralovetz – to talk about what it takes to do exemplary research that leads to better tomorrows.

TLA graduated its first Catalyzing Change I-Corps Cohort for Social Innovation. The initiative is part of the broader Social Innovation program which aims to amplify the impact of university innovation in all its forms, enhancing community trust in pursuing impact pathways and fostering positive change.

Every year, leaders from Tech Launch Arizona and the College of Engineering gather to award medallions to the researchers and professors recently granted patents for inventions that better the human condition. Attendees at this year’s Feb. 28 event celebrated Engineering’s inventors for improving health care and accelerating computing, among other achievements.

The Thomas R. Brown Family Private Foundation has made a gift of $500,000 to the Wildcat Philanthropic Seed Fund, and has committed to a matching challenge for an additional $500,000.