{"id":3726,"date":"2012-07-25T14:11:49","date_gmt":"2012-07-25T21:11:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pixelube.com\/work\/c4c\/?p=3726"},"modified":"2012-07-25T14:11:49","modified_gmt":"2012-07-25T21:11:49","slug":"lsdf-announces-grants-to-wa-companies-to-commercialize-health-related-technologies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pixelube.com\/work\/c4c\/lsdf-announces-grants-to-wa-companies-to-commercialize-health-related-technologies\/","title":{"rendered":"Three Early Stage UW Start-ups win LSDF&#039;s inaugural corporate grants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lsdfa.org\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pixelube.com\/work\/c4c\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/LSDF.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"LSDF\" width=\"226\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-3727\" \/><\/a>July 23, 2012 &#8211; The Life Sciences Discovery Fund (LSDF) today announced nearly $570,000 in awards in its inaugural corporate grant program to support commercialization of new health and health-care products by four early-stage Washington-based companies.<\/p>\n<p>Three of the four awards were granted to UW start-ups: EchoGuide Medical &#8211; producing small, handheld, single-use echolocation devices to guide the insertion of catheters into the brain; Viket Medical &#8211; developing a series of tools for minimally invasive brain surgery; and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nexgeniacorp.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Nexgenia<\/a> &#8211; optimizing novel reagents to improve the speed and sensitivity of clinical assays for diagnosing various diseases.<\/p>\n<p>Read the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lsdfa.org\/documents\/pdfs\/meetings\/12-07%20Press%20Release%20and%20Backgrounder%20Final%207-23-12.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">press release<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>July 23, 2012 &#8211; The Life Sciences Discovery Fund (LSDF) today announced nearly $570,000 in awards in its inaugural corporate grant program to support commercialization of new health and health-care [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pixelube.com\/work\/c4c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3726","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pixelube.com\/work\/c4c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pixelube.com\/work\/c4c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pixelube.com\/work\/c4c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pixelube.com\/work\/c4c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3726"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pixelube.com\/work\/c4c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3726\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pixelube.com\/work\/c4c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pixelube.com\/work\/c4c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pixelube.com\/work\/c4c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}