licensing
UI spinout company VIDA Diagnostics raises $5.1 million Series B funding
Monday, January 30, 2017
VIDA Diagnostics Inc., a medical software and services company based in the UI BioVentures Center and created through research at the UI College of Engineering, recently announced the company raised $5.1 million in Series B funding.
UIRF hires new licensing associate
Wednesday, June 8, 2016
The University of Iowa Research Foundation (UIRF) recently hired Kenneth Karanja as a new licensing associate to help faculty, staff, and students evaluate innovations developed in the lab for potential intellectual property rights (IP) and to commercialize new technologies and inventions.
UIRF strikes licensing agreement for regenerating damaged cartilage
Thursday, May 12, 2016
The University of Iowa Research Foundation (UIRF) recently optioned technology for regeneration of damaged cartilage to CartilaJoint GenTech, LLC (CartilaJoint). CartilaJoint has also sponsored research in the lab of James Martin, Ph.D., UI Associate Professor of Orthopedics and Rehabilitation, to study the efficacy of a hydrogel-based material to regenerate damaged cartilage. Medical entrepreneur...
UI strikes agreement with Pfizer Inc. to develop potential cystic fibrosis gene therapy
Thursday, February 4, 2016
The University of Iowa Research Foundation recently finalized a license and sponsored research agreement with Pfizer Inc. to support the development of potential gene therapies for cystic fibrosis (CF) by the laboratories of the University of Iowa (UI) professors John Engelhardt and Ziying Yan.
UI Research Foundation appoints new Associate Director of Licensing
Thursday, December 17, 2015
The University of Iowa Research Foundation (UIRF) has named Jane Garrity, previously Senior Licensing Associate for the Office of Economic Innovation and Partnerships at the University of Delaware, as Associate Director of Licensing effective Dec. 7. In her new position, Garrity will lead the UIRF licensing team, developing new strategies and initiatives to increase collaboration with researchers...