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UW Researchers Demonstrate Mild Brain Cooling After Head Injury Prevents Epileptic Seizures in Lab Study
Posted on December 20, 2012
According to an animal study reported this month in the Annals of Neurology, mild cooling of the brain after a...
C4C AnnouncesFall 2012 Commercialization Gap Fund Awards
Posted on December 13, 2012
Nine Research Teams Receive $420,000 to Develop Fledgling Technologies The UW Center for Commercialization (C4C) today announced the award of $420,000 in Commercialization Gap...
UW's Promising Therapeutic for Celiac Disease featured in "Chemical and Engineering News"
Posted on December 12, 2012
Celiac disease is one of several diseases involving intolerance to dietary gluten protein that causes serious health problems. UW researcher Ingrid Swanson Pultz and...
GeekWire Spotlights Michael Young as "2012 Newsmaker" for Championing UW Commercialization
Posted on November 29, 2012
UW President Michael Young has been identified by GeekWire as a “2012 Newsmaker” on GeekWire this month, leading up to the GeekWire Gala on...
Four new entrepreneurs-in-residence join C4C
Posted on September 21, 2012
C4C’s highly effective Entrepreneurs-in-Residence (EIR) program invites veteran industry experts to join C4C for six to nine months at a time. During this period,...
US Patent & Trademark office Selects UW School of Law for Pilot program
Posted on August 07, 2012
The University of Washington School of Law, through the UW Entrepreneurial Law Clinic (ELC), has been selected to join the United States Patent and...
UW/Nortis Bio Among 17 Recipients of $132M Tissue Chip Project Awards
Posted on July 27, 2012
A Seattle team of UW researchers in partnership with biotech start-up company Nortis, are among 17 research projects funded to improve methods for predicting...
Seattle Times: UW ITHS received its second five-year, $65 million grant from NIH to fund translational science
Posted on July 26, 2012
UW’s Institute of Translational Health Sciences (ITHS), a partnership between the University of Washington, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle Children’s Hospital and other...
Three Early Stage UW Start-ups win LSDF's inaugural corporate grants
Posted on July 25, 2012
July 23, 2012 – The Life Sciences Discovery Fund (LSDF) today announced nearly $570,000 in awards in its inaugural corporate grant program to support...
11 University of Washington Professors Recognized for Successful Commercialization
Posted on July 02, 2012
University of Washington President Michael Young today announced the appointment of 11 new members to the university’s prestigious Presidential Entrepreneurial Faculty Fellows (EFFs) program....