Fast Forward Newsletter Get updates about news, events, new inventions, and ecosystem opportunities each month. SUBSCRIBE Image Melissa Herbst-Kralovetz March 21, 2024 Celebrating female leaders in innovation and progress Read more March 19, 2024 Latest NSF I-Corps Cohort bridges the gap between social innovation and social impact Read more Image March 12, 2024 Patents mark year of breakthroughs at the College of Engineering Read more Image March 7, 2024 $500,000 donation plus $500,000 matching challenge gift brings university startup seed fund one step closer to impact Read more Image Image University of Arizona Startups to Present at White Hat Investors Sept. 18, 2018 On October 3 and 4, 2018, in Phoenix, Arizona, White Hat Investors will be holding its annual luncheon. Of the 32 companies who will be presenting during the two-day event, five are UA startups. Read more Image University of Arizona Tech Park Champion to Retire Sept. 5, 2018 After thirty-two years of working for the University of Arizona, Associate Vice President Bruce A. Wright, who brought a new tech-based vision for the economy to the University and our community is retiring from Tech Parks Arizona. Read more Image University of Arizona Licenses Deception Detecting Avatar to Startup Aug. 21, 2018 UA inventors have developed a system that interviews border crossers, monitors thousands of signals from the voice, body and eyes, and alerts agents when it detects deception. Meet the AVATAR, now licensed to Discern Science International, Inc. Read more Image Passing Five Year Milestone, UA Breaks Commercialization Records Again, Looks Ahead to New Phase July 27, 2018 For FY2018, the UA has again met or surpassed performance expectations for technology commercialization as TLA continues to bring University inventions from the lab to the world for social and economic benefit. Now, it's time to look forward. Read more Image University of Arizona Related Companies Receive First Local Venture Capital Fund Investments June 26, 2018 Tucson's newest early-stage capital fund, UA Venture Capital Fund LLC, has announced that it's first investments will be in three UA-connected companies: startups Codelucida, Regulonix and Post.Bid.Ship. Read more Image Startup Licenses UA Invented Disruptive Biopsy Device June 12, 2018 As cancer diagnostics and therapeutics become more personalized, pathologists will require more high-quality tissue from biopsies for testing. To address the challenge, this startup is working to bring a next-generation biopsy instrument invented at the UA to the world. Read more Image Startup Licenses UA Invention to Enhance Natural Safeguard Against Skin Cancer and Other Diseases May 28, 2018 Over 3 million new cases of skin cancer are diagnosed annually, but we have a natural defense against cancer-causing UV rays: melanin. Now, the UA has licensed two melanin-producing peptides to startup MCR Therapeutics. Read more Image Rakhi Gibbons Promoted to Director of Licensing May 21, 2018 In her new position, Rakhi Gibbons now oversees all TLA licensing operations. Learn more about Rakhi and her new role. Read more Image Urbix Resources Receives DOE Award to Advance UA-Technology for Nuclear Energy Materials May 14, 2018 Co-founded by UA alumni, the company was recently named to receive a technology development voucher for work on ultra-high purity isotropic graphite. The technology, licensed to Urbix, began as a sponsored project in the College of Optical Sciences. Read more Image UA Startup SinfoníaRx Sale Named Deal of the Year May 11, 2018 AZBigMedia reports that Sinfonía HealthCare Corporation's sale of subsidiary and UA startup SinfoníaRx to Tabula Rasa Healthcare, Inc. has been selected as the 2017 Deal of the Year by the Arizona chapter of the Association for Corporate Growth. Read more Image Startup Iluminos Licenses Arizona-invented Treatment for Alzheimer’s Disease April 25, 2018 Iluminos Therapeutics has licensed UA-created compounds that have the potential to treat neurodegenerative disease. The inventors hail from the Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology and the ASU-Banner Neurodegenerative Disease Research Center. Read more Image Startup Licenses University of Arizona Dual-View Probe for Medical Endoscopy April 19, 2018 UA researchers Drs. Bhaskar Banerjee and Rongguang “Ron” Liang have invented a dual-view probe for medical endoscopy demonstrated to increase polyp detection rates 58 percent to 98 percent. Their startup, Omniscient, is working to bring the technology to the public. Read more Pagination « First First page ‹‹ Previous page … 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 … ›› Next page Last » Last page
Image Melissa Herbst-Kralovetz March 21, 2024 Celebrating female leaders in innovation and progress Read more
March 19, 2024 Latest NSF I-Corps Cohort bridges the gap between social innovation and social impact Read more Image
March 7, 2024 $500,000 donation plus $500,000 matching challenge gift brings university startup seed fund one step closer to impact Read more Image
Image University of Arizona Startups to Present at White Hat Investors Sept. 18, 2018 On October 3 and 4, 2018, in Phoenix, Arizona, White Hat Investors will be holding its annual luncheon. Of the 32 companies who will be presenting during the two-day event, five are UA startups. Read more
Image University of Arizona Tech Park Champion to Retire Sept. 5, 2018 After thirty-two years of working for the University of Arizona, Associate Vice President Bruce A. Wright, who brought a new tech-based vision for the economy to the University and our community is retiring from Tech Parks Arizona. Read more
Image University of Arizona Licenses Deception Detecting Avatar to Startup Aug. 21, 2018 UA inventors have developed a system that interviews border crossers, monitors thousands of signals from the voice, body and eyes, and alerts agents when it detects deception. Meet the AVATAR, now licensed to Discern Science International, Inc. Read more
Image Passing Five Year Milestone, UA Breaks Commercialization Records Again, Looks Ahead to New Phase July 27, 2018 For FY2018, the UA has again met or surpassed performance expectations for technology commercialization as TLA continues to bring University inventions from the lab to the world for social and economic benefit. Now, it's time to look forward. Read more
Image University of Arizona Related Companies Receive First Local Venture Capital Fund Investments June 26, 2018 Tucson's newest early-stage capital fund, UA Venture Capital Fund LLC, has announced that it's first investments will be in three UA-connected companies: startups Codelucida, Regulonix and Post.Bid.Ship. Read more
Image Startup Licenses UA Invented Disruptive Biopsy Device June 12, 2018 As cancer diagnostics and therapeutics become more personalized, pathologists will require more high-quality tissue from biopsies for testing. To address the challenge, this startup is working to bring a next-generation biopsy instrument invented at the UA to the world. Read more
Image Startup Licenses UA Invention to Enhance Natural Safeguard Against Skin Cancer and Other Diseases May 28, 2018 Over 3 million new cases of skin cancer are diagnosed annually, but we have a natural defense against cancer-causing UV rays: melanin. Now, the UA has licensed two melanin-producing peptides to startup MCR Therapeutics. Read more
Image Rakhi Gibbons Promoted to Director of Licensing May 21, 2018 In her new position, Rakhi Gibbons now oversees all TLA licensing operations. Learn more about Rakhi and her new role. Read more
Image Urbix Resources Receives DOE Award to Advance UA-Technology for Nuclear Energy Materials May 14, 2018 Co-founded by UA alumni, the company was recently named to receive a technology development voucher for work on ultra-high purity isotropic graphite. The technology, licensed to Urbix, began as a sponsored project in the College of Optical Sciences. Read more
Image UA Startup SinfoníaRx Sale Named Deal of the Year May 11, 2018 AZBigMedia reports that Sinfonía HealthCare Corporation's sale of subsidiary and UA startup SinfoníaRx to Tabula Rasa Healthcare, Inc. has been selected as the 2017 Deal of the Year by the Arizona chapter of the Association for Corporate Growth. Read more
Image Startup Iluminos Licenses Arizona-invented Treatment for Alzheimer’s Disease April 25, 2018 Iluminos Therapeutics has licensed UA-created compounds that have the potential to treat neurodegenerative disease. The inventors hail from the Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology and the ASU-Banner Neurodegenerative Disease Research Center. Read more
Image Startup Licenses University of Arizona Dual-View Probe for Medical Endoscopy April 19, 2018 UA researchers Drs. Bhaskar Banerjee and Rongguang “Ron” Liang have invented a dual-view probe for medical endoscopy demonstrated to increase polyp detection rates 58 percent to 98 percent. Their startup, Omniscient, is working to bring the technology to the public. Read more