Mine workers wait for blasting to finish in the student-run UA San Xavier Mine near Tucson, Arizona. Photo: Pete Brown/College of Engineering
Startup GUIA has licensed a mining communication and sensor platform developed in the College of Engineering and Lowell Institute for Mineral Resources. In addition to mining, the company is looking to apply the technology to other high-risk environments.
Laura Silva, TLA Licensing Manager for the UA College of Science. Photo credit: Paul Tumarkin/Tech Launch Arizona
In collaboration with the College of Science, TLA has hired Laura Silva as the licensing manager for the college. She will be working with faculty, researchers and graduate students to identify, protect and commercialize inventions stemming from research at the college.
Dr. Roger Angel, Regents’ Professor at the University of Arizona, has been named as a Fellow of the prestigious National Academy of Inventors for his many contributions, from telescope mirror design to his ideas around sustainable energy. (Photo credit: John de Dios/UA News.)
Dr. Roger Angel, Regents’ Professor at the University of Arizona, has been named as a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors for his many contributions, from telescope mirror design to his ideas around sustainable energy.
The Lum.AI team (from left): Marco Antonio Valenzuela-Escárcega, PhD, Gustave Hahn-Powell and Mihai Surdeanu, PhD. Photo credit: Paul Tumarkin/Tech Launch Arizona.
For a researcher, developing a holistic understanding of a field is an immense task. UA inventors have devised an automated system to extract information from literature and generate easily interpretable answers. Now, the UA has licensed it to their startup, Lum.AI.
Rongguang Liang, PhD, College of Optical Sciences (left), received funding to develop 3-D printing of freeform optics. Pictured here with graduate student and co-inventor Zhihan Hong (right). Photo credit: Paul Tumarkin/Tech Launch Arizona
The goal of commercialization is to get the products of research out into the world for the public good. Asset Development funding helps develop early-stage technologies and make them more attractive for market adoption. The program is generating opportunities – and results.
Bruce Wright receives the 2017 Executive Excellence Award presented by Tucson Local Media and Inside Tucson Business. Photo credit: Jessa Turner/Tech Parks Arizona
UA Associate Vice President Bruce Wright received the COO/Leadership Equivalent Award for a non-profit organization during the 2017 Executive Excellence Award presented by Tucson Local Media and Inside Tucson Business.
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Drs. May and Rajesh Khanna, inventors of the non-opioid drug candidates.
At a time when opioid addiction represents a major public health crisis, researchers in the UA College of Medicine – Tucson have invented a new class of non-opioid drug candidates to treat pain. The University has licensed the compounds to startup Regulonix.
The Reglagene team, from left: Dr. Laurence Hurley, Dr. Vijay Gokhale and Dr. Richard Austin. Photo credit: Paul Tumarkin/Tech Launch Arizona
The UA has licensed a drug that aims to shorten the lives of cancer cells to startup Reglagene. The technology, invented at the UA College of Pharmacy and the BIO5 Institute by Laurence Hurley, PhD, and Vijay Gokhale, PhD, has been shown to be effective in inducing cancer cells to grow old and die.
Alzheimer's disease plaques. Image courtesy of ProNeurogen.
UA College of Medicine – Tucson Professor Meredith Hay, PhD, and her colleagues started ProNeurogen to commercialize their inventions in neuroscience and cardiovascular neurophysiology. The UA has been awarded two patents for their approach to treating memory loss and cognitive impairment.