Biosciences
- OEDIT announces grants to University of Colorado startups and researchers in the advanced industriesThe Colorado Office of Economic Development and International Trade (OEDIT) announced that seven University of Colorado companies and three researchers are among the awardees of the Proof of Concept and Early-Stage Capital and Retention grants through OEDIT’s Advanced Industries Accelerator Program.
- Founded by ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½ÆÆ½â°æÏÂÔØ Professor Larry Gold in 2000, SomaLogic revolutionized protein measurement by developing a faster, cost-effective process to monitor the vast number of proteins in the human body.
- JILA—Flari Tech Inc., a startup rooted in cutting-edge JILA research, has clinched one of the prestigious 2024 Lab Venture Challenge (LVC) grants from the University of Colorado Boulder, advancing its pioneering work to build a breathalyzer for diagnostics use targeting life-threatening diseases such as lung cancer.
- Fourteen teams of University of Colorado faculty, researchers and graduate student innovators competed for a combined $1.25 million in startup funding grants in this year’s Lab Venture Challenge (LVC).
- ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½ÆÆ½â°æÏÂÔØ Today—Go to the doctor to provide a blood sample and you’re typically faced with a needle and syringe and hours or even days of waiting to get results back from a lab. ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½ÆÆ½â°æÏÂÔØ researchers hope to change that with a new handheld, sound-based diagnostic system able to deliver precise results in an hour with a mere finger prick of blood.
- News-Medical—Patients who go to the doctor to provide a blood sample are typically faced with a needle and syringe and hours or days of waiting to get results back from a lab. ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½ÆÆ½â°æÏÂÔØ researchers hope to change that with a new handheld, sound-based diagnostic system to deliver precise results in an hour with a mere finger prick of blood.
- Daily Camera—Research funding at the University of Colorado Boulder has more than doubled in the last decade, increasing by about $391 million. There were 35 ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½ÆÆ½â°æÏÂÔØ-affiliated startup companies this last fiscal year compared to 10 the year before.
- The Onyxâ„¢ platform enables scientists to create libraries of millions of precisely engineered single cells in one experiment through a fully automated workflow.