Startup News
April 27, 2017 - CAI Spin-Out EncepHeal Therapeutics receives $300,000 Phase 1 SBIR grant from NIDA
EncepHeal Therapeutics has been awarded a Phase I SBIR grant worth $304,217 from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) to begin research on its licensed modafinil analogues as potential pharmacotherapies.
December 22, 2015 - OneStart Announced Circumvent Pharma as one of the 80 2016 Semi-Finalists: Development of Small Molecule Drugs for INCL and Thioesterase Deficiency Disorders
October 20, 2015 - Circumvent Pharma: Andy from the Keck Graduate Institute received orphan designation on the invention BEFORE the end of the competition; I’m very proud of them
EncepHeal Therapeutics has been awarded a Phase I SBIR grant worth $304,217 from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) to begin research on its licensed modafinil analogues as potential pharmacotherapies.
December 22, 2015 - OneStart Announced Circumvent Pharma as one of the 80 2016 Semi-Finalists: Development of Small Molecule Drugs for INCL and Thioesterase Deficiency Disorders
October 20, 2015 - Circumvent Pharma: Andy from the Keck Graduate Institute received orphan designation on the invention BEFORE the end of the competition; I’m very proud of them
August 18, 2015 - NeuroNostix: ExitEvents, #FirstDay: The Who, What, When of UNC Startup 2015-2016
July 13, 2015 -NeuroNostix: The Herald Sun, UNC team wins Startup Challenge
July 6, 2015 - NeuroNostix: UNC Campus Updates, Carolina team to compete for top brain challenge prize
July 13, 2015 -NeuroNostix: The Herald Sun, UNC team wins Startup Challenge
July 6, 2015 - NeuroNostix: UNC Campus Updates, Carolina team to compete for top brain challenge prize
June 25, 2015 - Beyond Barriers Therapeutics: The Daily Northwestern, Northwestern-based startup named winner in Neuro Startup Challenge
June 4, 2015 - IVT: New Orleans Times-Picayune, Tulane grad students win pitch competition for new brain health therapy
May 28, 2015 - IVT: Tulane New Wave, Two Tulane teams win big in international competition
May 28, 2015 - IVT: Tulane New Wave, Two Tulane teams win big in international competition
May 28, 2015 - Tulane New Wave, Two Tulane teams win big in international competition
December 23, 2015 - Milwaukee Wisconsin Journal Sentinel Announces Angio360 Diagnostics as Six Milwaukee Early Stage Companies to Watch in 2016
June 3, 2015 - Angio 360: Milwaukee BizTimes, Medical College team wins contest, launches biotech company
May 22, 2015 - Milwaukee Wisconsin Journal Sentinel, Milwaukee company among Neuro Startup Challenge winners
June 3, 2015 - Angio 360: Milwaukee BizTimes, Medical College team wins contest, launches biotech company
May 22, 2015 - Milwaukee Wisconsin Journal Sentinel, Milwaukee company among Neuro Startup Challenge winners
May 20, 2015 - Cogentis Therapeutics : Named most promising startups in the prestigious Mass Challenge
Other News
August 5, 2015 - FierceDiagnostics, Crowdsourcing challenge winner looking to commercialize NIH tech to diagnose brain cancer
May 21, 2015 - Neuro Startup Challenge Announces Business Plan Winners
May 13, 2015 - BioAlabama held their Annual Meeting and Science Symposium. Rosemarie Truman provided a keynote on the dynamics of startups and provided a proposal for driving economic growth, spurring entrepreneurship, and at the same time making significant strides to impact human health and reduce the cost of care through platforms such as the Neuro Startup Challenge.
April 29, 2015 - Rosemarie Truman opened up the 2015 IP and Business Summit at the Wild Dunes Resort in South Carolina. Rosemarie's talk was called Galvanizing the Next Era of Breakthrough Innovation.
December 30, 2014 - NIH and Center for Advancing Innovation Launch Neuro Start-Up Challenge Dana Foundation blog features the Neuro Startup Challenge and NIH partners in the challenge: Heritage Provider Network and The Center for Advancing Innovation, explaining the critical gap filled by the challenge and the value to those participating. http://danablog.org/2014/12/30/nih-and-center-for-advancing-innovation-cai-launch-neuro-start-up-challenge/
December 29, 2014 - 9 Healthcare Tech Startups To Watch, As venture capital flows into healthcare, look at some new companies that should be on your radar. Information Week features the Neuro Startup Challenge and partners: NIH, Heritage Provider Network and The Center for Advancing Innovation http://www.informationweek.com/healthcare/leadership/9-healthcare-tech-startups-to-watch/d/d-id/1318263
December 23, 2014 - Neuro Startup Challenge Accepts 71 Teams to Compete in Launching New Startups Around Unlicensed NIH Inventions. First Phase of Competition Open for Public Voting and Crowd Sourcing January 12, 2015 http://www.marketwired.com/press-release/neuro-startup-challenge-accepts-71-teams-compete-launching-new-startups-around-unlicensed-1979254.htm
December 22, 2014 - NIH launches crowdsourcing challenge to commercialize its neurological medical devices by Fierce Medical Devices. Fierce highlights the partnership between the NIH, Heritage Provider Network and Center for Advancing Innovation formed to advance neuroscience by crowdsourcing teams from around the world; please read more here: http://links.mkt1985.com/servlet/MailView?ms=MTE1MDU0ODAS1&r=MTg5NDA2NzUwODES1&j=NDAzOTc5NDIyS0&mt=1&rt=0#4
December 17, 2014 - Startup Challenge Program a New Way to Advance Multiple Inventions Into Multiple Startup Companies at One Time http://newslink.federallabs.org/2014/12/17/startup-challenge-program-a-new-way-to-advance-multiple-inventions-into-multiple-startup-companies-at-one-time/
December 5, 2014 - The White House highlights the Neuro Startup Challenge in their "Celebrating National Entrepreneurship Month" blog as being a "startup accelerator model to advance national priorities." Please review the blog here: http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2014/12/05/celebrating-national-entrepreneurship-month
November 19, 2014 - Federal Laboratory Consortium Technology Transfer Excellence Award: The Breast Cancer Startup Challenge won the Federal Laboratory Consortium's Technology Transfer Excellence award today. Thomas Stackhouse, Jenny Wong, Stephen Hewitt and I were at the event to receive the award. The challenge created a novel platform to advance breast cancer inventions by launching startups around 9 National Cancer Institute (NCI)inventions and 1 invention from Clemson University. The model can be used across Federal Labs to get more inventions commercialized. We're currently running the Neuro Startup Challenge and hope to launch 3 more challenges in 2015, one with NASA
November 14, 2014 - Dynamica - Key Note: Rosemarie Truman served as a key note speaker; the title of her talk: “Creating Sustainable Growth Breakthroughs - Innovation at its Best.” Please find the website here: http://dynamicaexpo.org/speakers/
HHS Idea Lab Blog, November 4, 2014: HHS Idea Lab's blog has posted an article outlining the successes of our Breast Cancer Startup Challenge and Neuro Startup Challenge. Click the link to read more! http://www.hhs.gov/idealab/2014/11/04/success-of-breast-cancer-startup-challenge-spurs-new-challenge-at-nih/
October 3, 2014 - Science and Technology Policy Exchange -Key Note: Rosemarie Truman served as a key note speaker; the title of her talk: “Galvanizing the Next Era of Breakthrough Innovation.” Please find the website here: http://www.sp-exchange.ca/2014-exchange/program-2014/
HHS Innovates Award, July 21, 2014: The Center for Advancing Innovation won the HHS Innovates Secretary's Pick award for orchestrating the Breast Cancer Startup Challenge together with the National Cancer Institute and Avon Foundation; please find links to the event below:
YouTube: http://youtu.be/TDVrkLsv-MQ
HHS Innovates photos on Flicker: https://www.flickr.com/photos/hhsgov/sets/72157645823206584/
Blog post announcing winners: http://www.hhs.gov/idealab/2014/07/21/hhs-innovates-celebrates-7th-round-of-innovations/
May 21, 2015 - Neuro Startup Challenge Announces Business Plan Winners
- FierceMedicalDevices - NIH announces winning teams of Neuro Startup Challenge to commercialize its inventions
- MedCityNews - NIH gets on the tech transfer startup wagon; announces winners of Neuro Startup Challenge
- Xconomy - Neuro Startup Challenge Winners Try To Commercialize NIH Inventions
May 13, 2015 - BioAlabama held their Annual Meeting and Science Symposium. Rosemarie Truman provided a keynote on the dynamics of startups and provided a proposal for driving economic growth, spurring entrepreneurship, and at the same time making significant strides to impact human health and reduce the cost of care through platforms such as the Neuro Startup Challenge.
April 29, 2015 - Rosemarie Truman opened up the 2015 IP and Business Summit at the Wild Dunes Resort in South Carolina. Rosemarie's talk was called Galvanizing the Next Era of Breakthrough Innovation.
December 30, 2014 - NIH and Center for Advancing Innovation Launch Neuro Start-Up Challenge Dana Foundation blog features the Neuro Startup Challenge and NIH partners in the challenge: Heritage Provider Network and The Center for Advancing Innovation, explaining the critical gap filled by the challenge and the value to those participating. http://danablog.org/2014/12/30/nih-and-center-for-advancing-innovation-cai-launch-neuro-start-up-challenge/
December 29, 2014 - 9 Healthcare Tech Startups To Watch, As venture capital flows into healthcare, look at some new companies that should be on your radar. Information Week features the Neuro Startup Challenge and partners: NIH, Heritage Provider Network and The Center for Advancing Innovation http://www.informationweek.com/healthcare/leadership/9-healthcare-tech-startups-to-watch/d/d-id/1318263
December 23, 2014 - Neuro Startup Challenge Accepts 71 Teams to Compete in Launching New Startups Around Unlicensed NIH Inventions. First Phase of Competition Open for Public Voting and Crowd Sourcing January 12, 2015 http://www.marketwired.com/press-release/neuro-startup-challenge-accepts-71-teams-compete-launching-new-startups-around-unlicensed-1979254.htm
December 22, 2014 - NIH launches crowdsourcing challenge to commercialize its neurological medical devices by Fierce Medical Devices. Fierce highlights the partnership between the NIH, Heritage Provider Network and Center for Advancing Innovation formed to advance neuroscience by crowdsourcing teams from around the world; please read more here: http://links.mkt1985.com/servlet/MailView?ms=MTE1MDU0ODAS1&r=MTg5NDA2NzUwODES1&j=NDAzOTc5NDIyS0&mt=1&rt=0#4
December 17, 2014 - Startup Challenge Program a New Way to Advance Multiple Inventions Into Multiple Startup Companies at One Time http://newslink.federallabs.org/2014/12/17/startup-challenge-program-a-new-way-to-advance-multiple-inventions-into-multiple-startup-companies-at-one-time/
December 5, 2014 - The White House highlights the Neuro Startup Challenge in their "Celebrating National Entrepreneurship Month" blog as being a "startup accelerator model to advance national priorities." Please review the blog here: http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2014/12/05/celebrating-national-entrepreneurship-month
November 19, 2014 - Federal Laboratory Consortium Technology Transfer Excellence Award: The Breast Cancer Startup Challenge won the Federal Laboratory Consortium's Technology Transfer Excellence award today. Thomas Stackhouse, Jenny Wong, Stephen Hewitt and I were at the event to receive the award. The challenge created a novel platform to advance breast cancer inventions by launching startups around 9 National Cancer Institute (NCI)inventions and 1 invention from Clemson University. The model can be used across Federal Labs to get more inventions commercialized. We're currently running the Neuro Startup Challenge and hope to launch 3 more challenges in 2015, one with NASA
November 14, 2014 - Dynamica - Key Note: Rosemarie Truman served as a key note speaker; the title of her talk: “Creating Sustainable Growth Breakthroughs - Innovation at its Best.” Please find the website here: http://dynamicaexpo.org/speakers/
HHS Idea Lab Blog, November 4, 2014: HHS Idea Lab's blog has posted an article outlining the successes of our Breast Cancer Startup Challenge and Neuro Startup Challenge. Click the link to read more! http://www.hhs.gov/idealab/2014/11/04/success-of-breast-cancer-startup-challenge-spurs-new-challenge-at-nih/
October 3, 2014 - Science and Technology Policy Exchange -Key Note: Rosemarie Truman served as a key note speaker; the title of her talk: “Galvanizing the Next Era of Breakthrough Innovation.” Please find the website here: http://www.sp-exchange.ca/2014-exchange/program-2014/
HHS Innovates Award, July 21, 2014: The Center for Advancing Innovation won the HHS Innovates Secretary's Pick award for orchestrating the Breast Cancer Startup Challenge together with the National Cancer Institute and Avon Foundation; please find links to the event below:
YouTube: http://youtu.be/TDVrkLsv-MQ
HHS Innovates photos on Flicker: https://www.flickr.com/photos/hhsgov/sets/72157645823206584/
Blog post announcing winners: http://www.hhs.gov/idealab/2014/07/21/hhs-innovates-celebrates-7th-round-of-innovations/
