CU Boulder researchers led by engineer Mark Rentschler have built a robot the size of a C battery designed to seek out and even take biopsies of intestinal polyps and other signs of illness. The group hopes that the machine will one day make colonoscopies easier for patients and more efficient for doctors.
The Lab Venture Challenge (LVC), hosted annually by Venture Partners at CU Boulder awards grants to campus researchers whose technologies demonstrate high commercial potential.
CU Boulder spinoff Stateless, Inc. recently announced that the company received a $750,000 Phase II Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF).
This round of financing will enable Mallinda to scale up and to deliver its first commercial product of its high-performance materials for the transportation segment.
The domestic economic impact of commercialization activities at CU Boulder over the last five years amounted to a staggering $1.9 billion, according to the recently-released Economic Impact on Tech Transfer report.
Double Helix Optics, a 3D nano-imaging company spun out of CU Boulder technology, won SPIE鈥檚 2019 Prism Award in the Diagnostics and Therapeutics category for its innovative SPINDLE庐 imaging system.
In hopes of making valuable industry connections to commercialize and advance their technologies, 25 university ventures spun out of Colorado research institutions and federal laboratories pitched to local investors and venture capitalists from both coasts.
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