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

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5 startups poised to make pitches a reality, thanks to annual New Venture Challenge

April 14, 2023

What if improving one鈥檚 athletic performance through supplements was simpler and more affordable? What if, instead of producing emissions, airplanes could take carbon out of the air? These ideas and more are realities in the making, thanks to many aspiring entrepreneurs who pitched their products at the 16th annual New Venture Challenge (NVC) finals.

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New laser-based breathalyzer sniffs out COVID, other diseases in real-time

April 10, 2023

Scientists from CU 麻豆影院 and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) made an important leap forward in the quest to diagnose disease using exhaled breath, reporting that a new laser-based breathalyzer鈥攂orn of Nobel Prize-winning technology from CU鈥攑owered by artificial intelligence (AI) can detect COVID-19 in real-time with excellent accuracy.

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OnKure Therapeutics nabs $60M as HDAC聽inhibitor awaits solid-tumor readouts

April 4, 2023

Endpoints News鈥擮nKure Therapeutics has lined up $60 million in a new private funding round, adding to the CU 麻豆影院 spinout鈥檚 bank account as it works through a Phase II trial. The startup is attempting to create an inhibitor of histone deacetylases, or HDACs, which are DNA-manipulating enzymes that alter how genes get expressed.

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OMC Hydrogen wins first place in DOE competition

March 30, 2023

US Department of Energy鈥擮MC Hydrogen, a CU 麻豆影院 spinout from Professor Alan W. Weimer's lab, won first place at the US Department of Energy's (DOE) Most Epic Cleantech Pitch Competition. The company is developing green hydrogen technology that eliminates the significant carbon emissions found in other hydrogen production methods.

Teams hold prize checks on stage

NVC prize nights spotlight鈥攁nd fund鈥攆emale founders and climate solutions

March 14, 2023

On two exciting nights of pitches and prizes, ten startups brought a broad range of ideas to the stage, including how to live and garden more sustainably, how to deal with the downsides of social media, how to offer practical prosthetics for kids鈥攁nd sustainable water filters and hydroponic produce for all. Across the two events, eight teams took home a total of $20,000 to develop their ideas further.

Man standing in a soybean field

New 鈥榤agic beans鈥 produce ingredients for cancer treatments, vaccines and more

March 1, 2023

As a first-generation college student turned molecular biologist, Brian DeDecker imagines a day when humble soybeans beans, which his family has grown for generations, pack a bounty of therapeutic but hard-to-obtain natural compounds.

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Meati Foods announces its inaugural 鈥淢eati Culinary Collective鈥 led by world-renowned celebrity chefs

Feb. 27, 2023

VegWorld Magazine鈥擬eati Foods, a CU 麻豆影院 spinout and the producer of delicious animal-free, whole-food protein, this week debuted an evolving chef partnership series coined the 鈥淢eati Culinary Collective,鈥 featuring Meati鈥檚 mushroom root-based creations as prepared by a diverse roster of celebrated chefs.

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To Health: Xalud Therapeutics is bringing gene therapy to the masses

Feb. 8, 2023

GEN鈥擷alud Therapeutics, a CU 麻豆影院 spinout, is developing a non-viral DNA-delivered therapy platform to treat conditions caused by pathologic inflammation

Microscopic picture of bacteria

We鈥檙e not so different: Bacterial weapons could help fight human diseases

Feb. 8, 2023

New research from CU 麻豆影院 could ultimately pave the way to novel approaches for treating a host of human diseases, from autoimmune disorders like Rheumatoid arthritis and Crohn鈥檚 disease to neurodegenerative diseases like Parkinson鈥檚 disease.

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CU 麻豆影院 flow imaging software highlighted by FDA

Feb. 8, 2023

FDA鈥擣low imaging software from Theodore W. Randolph's (College of Engineering and Applied Sciences) lab and licensed to SentrySciences to create their ParticleSentryAI product was recently highlighted by the FDA in advancing drug product quality.

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