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

June 1, 2021

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. 

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The Air Accordion Photobioreactor

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

March 9, 2021

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.

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Colleen Janczak in the lab.

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

March 8, 2021

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.

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Rakhi Gibbons

Tech Transfer IP Forum: Rakhi Gibbons

March 8, 2021

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.

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Doug Hockstad

Talking Tech Transfer: Doug Hockstad

Feb. 26, 2021

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. 

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Meredith Hay

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

Feb. 17, 2021

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. 

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The Refinery under construction

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

Feb. 9, 2021

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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Benjamin Renquist, PhD

UArizona Startup GenetiRate Acquired by Aquaculture Biotechnology Company

Feb. 8, 2021

Startup GenetiRate has been acquired by biotechnology company IMV Technologies. GenetiRate was founded on a technology that measures the metabolic rate of aquatic animals, from fish to mollusks to crustaceans, to identify and sort out those that grow more quickly, making it useful for the aquaculture industry.

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The mine tailings pile at the Iron King Mine and Humboldt Smelter Superfund Site in Yavapai County.

Startup Licenses Sustainability Technology for Mining Industry

Jan. 27, 2021

Auxilium Technologies has brought together multiple UArizona inventions that offer sustainable, energy-efficient and cost-effective solutions to improve the output of mines while reducing their environmental impact. 

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The Neuro-ID team

Startup Helps Online Businesses Reduce Risk by Decoding Online Customer Behavior

Jan. 11, 2021

Technology developed in the Eller College of Management processes several hundred thousand online customer interactions each day, reducing fraud and enhancing the customer experience.

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UArizona Professors Elected into the National Academy of Inventors

Dec. 8, 2020

Robert Norwood and Laurence Hurley have been elected as fellows of the academy, the organization's most prestigious designation.

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Eller team developing a gaming headband for the hearing-impaired.

Funding Awarded for Student Solutions to Real-world Problems

Nov. 19, 2020

Tech Launch Arizona’s second Student Innovation Challenge has selected five student teams for funding to prototype inventions for commercialization.

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Dr. Scott Sherman

Pharma Company Licenses UArizona Method for Treating Parkinson’s Disease with Ketamine

Nov. 9, 2020

UArizona researchers have developed a method of using ketamine in the treatment of Parkinson’s disease. The discovery has been licensed to Pharmather Inc., for development and commercialization.

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