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UI Professor earns prize for device that improves bladder monitoring at home

Christopher Cooper, professor of urology at the University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine, was awarded the Pediatric Urology Device Prize from the Southwest National Pediatric Device Innovation Consortium for a home-based pediatric cystomanometer. The device allows for more accessible and frequent bladder pressure monitoring at home.
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Webinar series will explore how to create better university-industry research partnerships

Partnerships between university researchers and industry representatives are attractive for people on both sides, but forming effective partnerships—and taking into account sometimes differing values and interests—can make them tricky to manage. A seven-part webinar series offered by the University-Industry Demonstration Partnership will explore how to explore better research partnerships.

UI awards $625,000 to UI faculty through commercialization gap fund

The University of Iowa Research Foundation (UIRF) has awarded $625,000 in gap funding to 10 faculty researchers whose projects have a strong potential for commercialization.

These include proposals for a light-driven desalination unit, a device for detecting delirium in patients, and a news aggregator than can assess the political bias of news articles and aggregate content according to users’ interests.

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