Explore the latest news about Venture Partners at CU Ƶ and keep up to date on the impact CU's startups and technologies are making.

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$2M award helps CU startup SuviCa build new tech to find better cancer drugs

Nov. 1, 2019

A 2-year, $2 million National Cancer Institute (NCI) award has been given to Ƶ-based startup SuviCa, Inc. co-founded by CU Ƶ and CU Cancer Center investigator, Dr. Tin Tin Su. Dr. Su hopes to find drugs that augment the effect of radiation to keep cancer at bay.

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Eleven CU Ƶ researchers to pitch their innovations for funding at Lab Venture Challenge

Oct. 21, 2019

The Lab Venture Challenge is hosted over two days and broken up into Biosciences on Wednesday, Nov. 13 and Physical Sciences & Engineering on Thursday, Nov. 14. This showcase is the can't-miss event of the year to see CU Ƶ's next wave of breakthrough innovations.

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CU Ƶ spinoff Inscripta launches the world's first benchtop platform for digital genome engineering

Oct. 10, 2019

The Onyx™ platform enables scientists to create libraries of millions of precisely engineered single cells in one experiment through a fully automated workflow.

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From Ƶ to the Bay: Alumni investors connect with university startups at Silicon Valley summit

Aug. 21, 2019

On August 17, eight University of Colorado startups founded on faculty research traveled to Silicon Valley for a day-long retreat with CU Ƶ alumni investors and friends.

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A high-performance battery for renewable energy storage

Aug. 2, 2019

A low-cost, high-performance battery chemistry developed by CU Ƶ researchers could one day lead to scalable grid-level storage for wind and solar energy that could help electrical utilities reduce their dependency on fossil fuels. Venture Partners helped to file the patent on the innovation.

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CU Ƶ spinout Inscripta featured in Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News

July 30, 2019

Inscripta gave its first public presentation at the 2019 Synthetic Biology: Engineering, Evolution & Design (SEED) conference in New York City, where the company offered a peek into their progress toward making “the world’s first scalable platform for benchtop digital genome engineering.”

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Self-healing, fully-recyclable electronic skin has new applications

July 15, 2019

This technology is being developed by CU Ƶ Associate Professor Jianliang Xiao of the Department of Mechanical Engineering in collaboration with Professor Wei Zhang of the Department of Chemistry. Their completely recyclable, self-healing e-skin may one day lead to improvements in human health, robotics, prosthetics and beyond.

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Venture Partners featured in Tech Transfer Central article about startups & industry partnerships

July 8, 2019

The article, 'Universities find a fertile source of industry partnerships: Their own start-ups,' appeared in the June 2019 issue of University-Industry Engagement Advisor.

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CU Ƶ spinout OnKure Therapeutics enrolls first cancer patient in clinical trial

June 21, 2019

A new drug therapy for cancer treatment, spun out of research performed in a CU Ƶ biochemistry lab, may provide better results for patients with solid cancers and hematologic cancers, such as leukemia and lymphoma.

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Sixteen CU Ƶ and CSU startups engage in customer discovery at inaugural Research-to-Market program

June 19, 2019

The inaugural Research-to-Market (R2M) program—hosted by Venture Partners at CU Ƶ—guided researchers-turned-startup founders through the iterative process of finding a product-market fit and refining a value proposition for their respective technologies.

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