Startup Licenses Fluidic Lens Design to Automate Eyesight Testing
This James C. Wyant College of Optical Sciences phoropter technology aims to shorten and ease your visits to the eye doctor.
Startup INTelico Therapeutics has taken big data to another level, using a novel computational algorithm invented at the UA College of Medicine-Tucson to identify drug targets for specific diseases.
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Bob Sleeper
Senior Licensing Manager, College of Engineering
Bob Sleeper started as the embedded Licensing Manager for the College of Engineering within the Office of Technology Transfer on June 24th, 2013....
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Kennedy Nyairo. Photo credit: Paul Tumarkin/Tech Launch Arizona
20-Year Optical Sciences and Intellectual Property Expert Joins Tech Launch Arizona
Kennedy Nyairo, Ph.D., serves as Senior Licensing Manager dedicated to commercializing the inventions from the James C. Wyant College of Optical Sciences.
Illustrative Mathematics President and UA Mathematics Professor Emeritus Bill McCallum talks with Desert View High School mathematics teacher Jaime Morado. Photo: Tech Launch Arizona
From Invention to Impact: Illustrative Mathematics
In 2014, Distinguished Professor Bill McCallum, now retired, started a new company dedicated to transforming mathematics education. Today, the company works with over 200 schools, and more than 2,000 teachers use its products. Watch the video!
Jacob Schwartz, Ph.D. examines cancer cells donated by patients. Photo credit: Alison Mairena/Tech Launch Arizona
Tech Blog: New Drug Treatment for Ewing’s Sarcoma
Funded by the American Cancer Society and the National Cancer Institute at the NIH, Jacob Schwartz, Ph.D., professor of chemistry and biochemistry at the UA College of Science, has created a new drug treatment for cancer with a focus on Ewing’s sarcoma.
Taehee Lee, a Ph.D. student in MSE, uses a blower to create a 25 mph wind to measure generated dust concentrations from the surface where dust suppressants (water, water and acrylic-based commercial product, and water and the UA technology) were applied two weeks before. The tests were done at the closed tailings storage facility at the Asarco Mission Mine. Photo credit: Minkyu Kim/College of Engineering.
Startup Licenses UA-engineered Solutions to Control Dust in a Dry World
Biocompatible polymer solutions invented in the UA College of Engineering were licensed to startup Clean Earth Tech to address the challenge of keeping dust down for better human health.
Kenneth Wertman, Ph.D.
Tech Launch Arizona Welcomes Alumnus, Pharmaceutical Senior VP as Mentor-in-Residence
University of Arizona Ph.D. returns to give back and build impactful, research-driven startups capping 30-year career in industry.