Fast Forward Newsletter Get updates about news, events, new inventions, and ecosystem opportunities each month. SUBSCRIBE Image Students engage in "The Buzz," a dynamic alcohol education program developed at the University of Arizona. Spencer Gorin April 10, 2024 The Buzz: A Game-Changing Alcohol Education Program Read more April 8, 2024 University of Arizona Startups Selected for Flinn Foundation Bioscience Entrepreneurship Program Read more Image March 21, 2024 Celebrating female leaders in innovation and progress Read more Image March 19, 2024 Latest NSF I-Corps Cohort bridges the gap between social innovation and social impact Read more Image Image Let's Recap! Tech Launch Arizona Open House at The Refinery, May 25, 2022 May 25, 2022 On May 25, 2022, we gathered with friends and colleagues to celebrate the opening of our new offices at The Refinery at the UA Tech Park at The Bridges. Check out the photo recap! Read more Image University of Arizona Innovation Generated $1.6 Billion in Economic Output Over 5 Years May 18, 2022 Between FY2017 and FY2021, TLA activities generated a $1.61 billion economic output and supported thousands of jobs. A new report on the economic impacts generated by the UArizona commercialization office outlines these findings and projects continued growth over the next 10 years. Read more Image UArizona Honors Faculty with New Distinguished Innovation & Entrepreneurship Awards May 2, 2022 Professor Jeffrey Pyun and Assistant Professor Thomas Gianetti have been recognized with new UArizona faculty awards for innovation and entrepreneurship; both demonstrated significant involvement in expanding the impact of their research to the public good through a focus on commercialization. Read more Image From connected cars to pipelines: Engineering innovators aim to protect 'internet of things' April 26, 2022 Around the world, countries are on the cyber-offense. UArizona researchers have invented new strategies to mitigate these attacks by helping make cybersecurity for the “internet of things” (IoT) more accessible. Based on the technology, they have launched a startup, BG Networks, to bring the invention to the public. Read more Image Optical sciences researcher dishes up new method to improve radio telescope manufacturing April 21, 2022 An optical sciences Ph.D. student has developed a new way for precisely measuring radio antenna surfaces. TLA worked with him to patent the technology and now he has launched a startup, Fringe Metrology. Read more Image We're Moving to The Refinery the Week of April 18 March 18, 2022 On April 18, 2022, Tech Launch Arizona will be vacating its offices at the University of Arizona Services Annex building and moving to our new home at The Refinery at the UA Tech Park at The Bridges. Get the details. Read more Image UArizona Invited to Participate in $1M Novartis Innovation Opportunity March 10, 2022 The UArizona has been selected as one of over 50 world-class institutions participating in the Novartis Global Scholars Program (NGSP). The Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research NGSP is a competitive program designed for innovators from invited institutions to gain $1M over 3-years in funding for breakthrough science not covered by traditional grant support. Read more Image Reflections During National Women's History Month March 8, 2022 To honor Women's History Month we checked in with some of our TLA team members and asked them how the challenges of the pandemic and the last two years have affected their lives and inspired change for them. Read more Image College of Engineering Celebrates Inventors with Awarded Patents March 7, 2022 Twenty inventors were recognized for their hard work, creativity and courage at the first annual College of Engineering Patent Medallion Luncheon in early March. The engineers received medallions to commemorate their patented inventions — which ranged from a quantum-analogue computer to a cancer detection device to a technique to improve hypersonic flight. Read more Image UArizona Bioscience Startups Accepted to Flinn Foundation Entrepreneurship Program March 5, 2022 Three UArizona startups founded to commercialize university inventions have been selected to participate in the 2022 Flinn Foundation Bioscience Entrepreneurship program: NeuTherapeutics. SaiOx, Inc., and uPetsia. Only seven Arizona companies were selected for this year's program. Read more Image UArizona Researchers Develop AI-Driven Method for Diagnosing Lung Disease Feb. 17, 2022 Researchers at the University of Arizona College of Medicine – Tucson have developed a new way to provide earlier diagnosis of lung disease. Working with TLA, the team has strategized and launched a startup, MetFora, and licensed the technology to advance toward making it available for doctors and patients. Read more Image Four UArizona Faculty Named to the National Academy of Inventors Feb. 11, 2022 The National Academy of Inventors has named four faculty researchers among its new class of Senior Members. NAI Senior Members are active faculty, scientists, and administrators from NAI Member Institutions who have demonstrated remarkable innovation in producing technologies that have brought, or aspire to bring, real impact on the welfare of society. Read more Pagination « First First page ‹‹ Previous page 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 … ›› Next page Last » Last page
Image Students engage in "The Buzz," a dynamic alcohol education program developed at the University of Arizona. Spencer Gorin April 10, 2024 The Buzz: A Game-Changing Alcohol Education Program Read more
April 8, 2024 University of Arizona Startups Selected for Flinn Foundation Bioscience Entrepreneurship Program Read more Image
March 19, 2024 Latest NSF I-Corps Cohort bridges the gap between social innovation and social impact Read more Image
Image Let's Recap! Tech Launch Arizona Open House at The Refinery, May 25, 2022 May 25, 2022 On May 25, 2022, we gathered with friends and colleagues to celebrate the opening of our new offices at The Refinery at the UA Tech Park at The Bridges. Check out the photo recap! Read more
Image University of Arizona Innovation Generated $1.6 Billion in Economic Output Over 5 Years May 18, 2022 Between FY2017 and FY2021, TLA activities generated a $1.61 billion economic output and supported thousands of jobs. A new report on the economic impacts generated by the UArizona commercialization office outlines these findings and projects continued growth over the next 10 years. Read more
Image UArizona Honors Faculty with New Distinguished Innovation & Entrepreneurship Awards May 2, 2022 Professor Jeffrey Pyun and Assistant Professor Thomas Gianetti have been recognized with new UArizona faculty awards for innovation and entrepreneurship; both demonstrated significant involvement in expanding the impact of their research to the public good through a focus on commercialization. Read more
Image From connected cars to pipelines: Engineering innovators aim to protect 'internet of things' April 26, 2022 Around the world, countries are on the cyber-offense. UArizona researchers have invented new strategies to mitigate these attacks by helping make cybersecurity for the “internet of things” (IoT) more accessible. Based on the technology, they have launched a startup, BG Networks, to bring the invention to the public. Read more
Image Optical sciences researcher dishes up new method to improve radio telescope manufacturing April 21, 2022 An optical sciences Ph.D. student has developed a new way for precisely measuring radio antenna surfaces. TLA worked with him to patent the technology and now he has launched a startup, Fringe Metrology. Read more
Image We're Moving to The Refinery the Week of April 18 March 18, 2022 On April 18, 2022, Tech Launch Arizona will be vacating its offices at the University of Arizona Services Annex building and moving to our new home at The Refinery at the UA Tech Park at The Bridges. Get the details. Read more
Image UArizona Invited to Participate in $1M Novartis Innovation Opportunity March 10, 2022 The UArizona has been selected as one of over 50 world-class institutions participating in the Novartis Global Scholars Program (NGSP). The Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research NGSP is a competitive program designed for innovators from invited institutions to gain $1M over 3-years in funding for breakthrough science not covered by traditional grant support. Read more
Image Reflections During National Women's History Month March 8, 2022 To honor Women's History Month we checked in with some of our TLA team members and asked them how the challenges of the pandemic and the last two years have affected their lives and inspired change for them. Read more
Image College of Engineering Celebrates Inventors with Awarded Patents March 7, 2022 Twenty inventors were recognized for their hard work, creativity and courage at the first annual College of Engineering Patent Medallion Luncheon in early March. The engineers received medallions to commemorate their patented inventions — which ranged from a quantum-analogue computer to a cancer detection device to a technique to improve hypersonic flight. Read more
Image UArizona Bioscience Startups Accepted to Flinn Foundation Entrepreneurship Program March 5, 2022 Three UArizona startups founded to commercialize university inventions have been selected to participate in the 2022 Flinn Foundation Bioscience Entrepreneurship program: NeuTherapeutics. SaiOx, Inc., and uPetsia. Only seven Arizona companies were selected for this year's program. Read more
Image UArizona Researchers Develop AI-Driven Method for Diagnosing Lung Disease Feb. 17, 2022 Researchers at the University of Arizona College of Medicine – Tucson have developed a new way to provide earlier diagnosis of lung disease. Working with TLA, the team has strategized and launched a startup, MetFora, and licensed the technology to advance toward making it available for doctors and patients. Read more
Image Four UArizona Faculty Named to the National Academy of Inventors Feb. 11, 2022 The National Academy of Inventors has named four faculty researchers among its new class of Senior Members. NAI Senior Members are active faculty, scientists, and administrators from NAI Member Institutions who have demonstrated remarkable innovation in producing technologies that have brought, or aspire to bring, real impact on the welfare of society. Read more