Five WashU research teams win awards in LEAP Inventor Challenge
The challenge’s facilitators anticipate investing more than a quarter million dollars in this cycle’s winners.
Category: School of Medicine
Student-designed app helps docs diagnose Alzheimer’s
A student-led team at Washington University in St. Louis has designed an app to streamline diagnoses of Alzheimer’s disease.
Washington University sets records in innovation, entrepreneurship
During the past fiscal year, the Washington University in St. Louis Office of Technology Management (OTM) reported a number of record figures as a result of the innovative technologies developed by university faculty. In fiscal year 2017, which concluded June 30, OTM…
Washington University LEAP Inventor Challenge winners announced!
Five WashU teams win LEAP Inventor Challenge funding and mentorship for their early stage research to help propel innovations to market.
clEAR – Washington University startup develops software for hearing impaired
Nancy Tye-Murray has developed clEAR (customized learning: Exercises for Aural Rehabilitation) – a software that helps patients improve speech recognition.
Biotech startup with WashU DNA receives $17M financing
Biotech startup Affigen announced the closing of a $17 million Series A financing round led by Black Beret Life Sciences.
BioGenerator partners with WashU
BioGenerator, in collaboration with Cortex, has partnered with Washington University and Saint Louis University to provide access to 14 core R&D facilities to support commercialization efforts of BioGenerator supported companies, including investment recipients and BioGenerator Lab users.
Skandalaris Center has new facility on the med campus
The Skandalaris Center for Interdisciplinary Innovation and Entrepreneurship has a new facility on the Washington University Medical Campus. The new space, located in the Taylor Avenue Building, will be used for meetings and events to better serve Medical School constituents with entrepreneurial…
Team develops wireless, dissolvable sensors to monitor brain
Tiny implants measure intracranial pressure, temperature before being absorbed into the body