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College of Engineering celebrates patent inventors

March 21, 2023

The College of Engineering and Tech Launch Arizona recognized 20 inventors for their ingenuity at the college's second annual Patent Medallion Luncheon in early March.

The 2023 Patent Medallion recipients and TLA colleagues pose for a photo.

Startup Metfora to advance development of AI-enabled diagnostic technology

March 7, 2023

Startup Metfora, LLC is the recipient of a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase l Award from the NSF to pursue the detection of chronic diseases via multiplex analysis of circulating metabolites. They will receive a one-year grant of $255,706 to expand a diagnostic technology developed at the UArizona College of Medicine – Tucson.

Olga Rafikova and Ruslan Rafikov, College of Medicine - Tucson.

For student success, Science of Sport hits a home run

March 6, 2023

The United States ranks 25th out of 37 nations in mathematics literacy as listed by the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). Systems Engineering Professor Ricardo Valerdi came up with a solution that's now impacting hundreds of thousands of students around the nation.

Ricardo Valerdi on the baseball field with students.

UArizona bioscience startup selected for Flinn Foundation program

March 2, 2023

With help from Tech Launch Arizona, TheraCea was launched in 2020 to develop diagnostic agents that allow oncologists and pharmaceutical companies to select the right segment of patients who will be responsive to specific immunotherapy drugs.

UArizona COVID-19 treatment takes next step toward public impact via license to pharmaceutical company

Feb. 27, 2023

UArizona researchers have been developing a new compound that inhibits SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19. The university has now exclusively licensed the technology to Sunshine Biopharma Inc. to take forward for further development and testing.

Innovative faculty elected to the National Academy of Inventors

Feb. 15, 2023

The National Academy of Inventors has announced three more UArizona innovators to its list of Senior Members. All will be inducted into the Academy at an event in Washington, D.C., this summer.

UA President Robert C. Robbins and Professor Moe Momayez talking about what is being displayed on a laptop screen in front of them.

This Giving Day, share the love with TLA

Feb. 8, 2023

Feeling the love? Make your gift to Tech Launch Arizona today and an anonymous donor will match the first $20,000 pledged.

Giving Day web banner with photo of Betsy Cantwell, Sahand Sabet, and Doug Hockstad

Always an eye toward public service

Feb. 7, 2023

After spending 22 years in the military, Jason “Jay” Martin is now a retired officer and a J.D. candidate. What has been his experience like as an Intellectual Property Intern on the TLA team?

Startup Paramium Technologies to scale up business of shaping precision satellite reflectors

Feb. 2, 2023

UArizona startup Paramium Technologies recently secured a $1M SBIR grant to scale up their business of producing highly customized curved reflectors for radio astronomy and satellite communications.

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

UArizona partners with regional universities in re-envisioned NSF I-Corps Hub program

Jan. 17, 2023

In 2011, the National Science Foundation launched the I-Corps program to teach teams – each consisting of a principal investigator, an entrepreneurial lead, and a business mentor – how use the customer discovery process to quickly assess the market potential of their inventions. The inaugural Desert and Pacific Region I-Corps Cohort will begin on Friday, January 27 and run each Friday until February 24. Applications open!