In late 2024, the Patent Public Advisory Committee (PPAC) of the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) submitted its fiscal year 2024 annual report to the President of the United States. U of A inventor and Regents Professor Marvin Slepian serves on the nine-member committee and penned the section of the report about the role of artificial intelligence in patenting and innovation.

Applications for the 2025 IdeaFunding pitch competition are now live. Entrepreneurs and early-stage Arizona companies must submit applications by 11:59 p.m. on Jan. 14, 2025.

Two University of Arizona faculty members have been elected fellows of the National Academy of Inventors class of 2024. Shibin Jiang and Abhijit Mahalanobis have developed influential inventions that have earned them the highest professional honor exclusively available to academic inventors.

Did you know that postpartum hemorrhage affects around 14 million women each year globally? U of A inventor Elise Erickson and her collaborators have developed a test that uses blood or saliva to assess the risk of postpartum hemorrhage and potential responsiveness to oxytocin.

Held on September 25, TLA's annual event honors the university’s top inventors and startups, along with those people and organizations throughout the innovation ecosystem that support the commercialization of U of A inventions.

Hong Hua, inventor and professor of optical sciences, has been featured in the Bayh-Dole Coalition's 2024 "Faces of American Innovation" report. The Coalition has recognized her for her development of a revolutionary vision correction device that helps many legally blind people to see.