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UArizona Team Led by Architecture and Engineering Professors Wins $200,000 ‘American-Made Challenge’ E-ROBOT Prize

wall-EIFS, a robotically applied, 3D-sprayable exterior insulation and finish system for building envelope retrofits, is one of 10 finalist prize winners of the U.S. Department of Energy’s Envelope Retrofit Opportunities for Building Optimization Technologies Prize, or E-ROBOT Prize. Each finalist team is awarded $200,000.

UArizona Researchers Develop First Regenerative, Safe Therapeutic for Alzheimer’s Disease

Roberta Diaz Brinton

Despite COVID, UArizona Reports Strong Year for Innovation and Commercialization

The Tucson skyline with Sentinel Peak in the background.

Researchers Develop Understanding of How Breast Tumor Stiffness Is a Predictor of Bone Metastasis

Ghassan Mouneimne, PhD

Left to right: Christian Davila-Peralta, Justin Hyatt and Roslyn Norman.

UArizona Innovation Ecosystem Provides “a Wealth of Resources” for Engineering Startup

University of Arizona startup Paramium Technologies, founded to commercialize a precision metal plate forming technology invented by researchers in the Steward Observatory, has demonstrated how a small company can achieve big things with the support of a strong innovation ecosystem.

UArizona Ranks 28 Among Top 100 Worldwide Universities Granted U.S. Utility Patents in 2020 

The new ranking represents continued growth for UArizona. In 2020, a total of 81 patents were issued to UArizona and the Arizona Board of Regents for inventions developed at the university, 19 more than the previous year.

Software/App Challenge Winning Projects Announced, Receiving Funding for Development

Through a challenge organized in collaboration with Arizona FORGE, Tech Launch Arizona is funding the development of five winning software projects aiming to make a real societal impact. Learn all about the teams and their proposals.

Spencer Gorin (far right) facilitates The Buzz program for an audience of students.

Multiplying the Impact of UArizona Innovations

Since 2013 and the creation of TLA, the university has been growing its impact by licensing inventions to companies. Most often, a company takes an exclusive license so the resulting product is uniquely theirs in the marketplace. But sometimes the best path for an invention is to license it over and over again to as many entities as possible, and the impact can be immense.

Eric Lyons and Scott Zentack in their new lab space.

'Howl-itosis' a Problem? UArizona Inventor Creates Bacteria Strain to Quell Bad Dog Breath

UArizona researchers in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences and the BIO Instutute have developed a harmless bacteria strain to battle bad breath in our furry friends. University startup uPetsia has licensed the invention to develop it and take it to the marketplace.

Roslyn Norman of Paramium Technologies

Startups Prove Ecosystem Power at IdeaFunding 2021

Of the four companies who made it to the finals of IdeaFunding 2021, three are startups that were founded to commercialize University of Arizona inventions – a visible and measurable indication that the university entrepreneurial ecosystem is effectively connecting research, innovation and impact to launch the university’s most promising inventions.

The Air Accordion Photobioreactor

Tucson-based Startup Licenses Technology for Creating Sustainable Products from Algae

Invented in the College of Agriculture & LIfe Sciences and the BIO5 Institute, the Air Accordion Photobioreactor produces low-cost, large-scale and environmentally sustainable microalgae products used to create vaccines and health supplements like omega-3 fatty acids. Meet UArizona startup AlgeaCell.

Colleen Janczak in the lab.

UArizona Bioscience Startups Earn $30K through Flinn Foundation Entrepreneurship Program

Botanisol Analytics and Scintillation Nanotechnologies – both founded to commercialize UArizona inventions – have been accepted into the 2021 Flinn Foundation Bioscience Entrepreneurship Program. Each will receive $30,000 in funding through a nonprofit partner, a customized learning plan, and connections with the state’s bioscience leaders in business, research, and policy.

Rakhi Gibbons

Tech Transfer IP Forum: Rakhi Gibbons

On this episode of Tech Transfer IP, the host interviews Rakhi Gibbons, the Director of Licensing for Tech Launch Arizona at the University of Arizona. Hear about Rakhi and the history, vision and growing successes of TLA.

Doug Hockstad

Talking Tech Transfer: Doug Hockstad

In this podcast Theirry Heles of Global University Venturing interviewed Doug Hockstad, assistant vice-president of Tech Launch Arizona. How has the office has helped drive innovation? How TLA is working to increase diversity? Listen now.

Meredith Hay

University of Arizona Women Elected Senior Members of the National Academy of Inventors

The National Academy of Inventors (NAI) has named inventors and professors May Khanna and Meredith Hay of the University of Arizona as Senior Members in recognition of their innovative work that has given rise to real impact on the welfare of society.

The Refinery under construction

Final Steel Beam Tops Off The Refinery Building at the UA Tech Park at The Bridges

The steel frame and concrete floors are coming to completion at The Refinery! Check out the building that TLA will soon call our new home.

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