Featured Startup: KaliVir Therapeutics
Since forming a startup around his oncolytic virus cancer therapy research six years ago, Steve Thorne has managed to attract two major pharmaceutical partners to develop portions of his platforms …
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Since forming a startup around his oncolytic virus cancer therapy research six years ago, Steve Thorne has managed to attract two major pharmaceutical partners to develop portions of his platforms …
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Late in 2020, the Innovation Institute was honored to host the Director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office, Andrei Iancu, for a fireside chat with our Director, Evan …
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In honor of Black History Month, the Innovation Institute is highlighting the life of William Hunter Dammond, a civil engineer and inventor of a train signaling system that bore his …
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Two recent federal grants have supercharged the progress of a non-invasive nerve blocking or stimulating technology from the lab of Pitt associate professor of urology Changfeng Tai as the startup …
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Camels have been helping people travel through the desert for millennia, and alpacas and llamas have long been raised for their silky fur.
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The Start Smart series of legal seminars for entrepreneurs recently held a session on funding a startup. If you missed it, never fear, you can watch the recording of the …
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In a year that threw the world a giant curve ball, the Pitt Ventures Student Challenge went virtual for 2020 and hit a home run.
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LifeX Labs was launched in 2017 to serve the needs of a growing life science industry base in the Pittsburgh region and fill a large gap in services for biotech …
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As we celebrate the recent milestone of 100 startups spun out of the University of Pittsburgh since the launch of the Innovation Institute in late 2013, we are regularly updating …
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When your work as a Pitt researcher begins to yield discoveries that may translate into products or services that can make a difference in people’s lives, the first step in …
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Since 2016, the American Heart Association has awarded 62 grants totaling $10.3M to researchers at the University of Pittsburgh. The AHA’s mission has recently expanded beyond cardiovascular and stroke science …
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When we last checked in with Jason Rose, assistant professor of medicine and biomedical engineering (center) in the summer of 2018, he had just licensed a technology he had helped …