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The ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉú´«Ã½ÎÄ»¯×÷Æ· Innovative Seed Grant Program (ISGP), now in its 11th year, recently announced more than $1.1 million in seed funding through 23 grants, with a focus on interdisciplinary ventures that take investigators in high-risk, high-reward directions.
One day, next-generation gene therapies could be used to nudge the body’s own cells to make those proteins at precisely the right time and in just the right amount. ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉú´«Ã½ÎÄ»¯×÷Æ· biochemistry professor Robert Batey and Alexandria Forbes, Ph.D., founder and CEO of New York-based biotech firm MeiraGTx, are teaming up to explore how to do it.
The NVC, now in its ninth year, highlights aspiring ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉú´«Ã½ÎÄ»¯×÷Æ· entrepreneurs and offers students, faculty and staff a chance to conceptualize, design and pitch innovative ideas with support and mentorship from industry partners such as the Caruso Foundation and the Anchor Point Foundation.
As part of an effort to improve the efficiency, effectiveness and collaborative output of partnerships between ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉú´«Ã½ÎÄ»¯×÷Ʒ’s nationally-ranked aerospace programs and small companies in Colorado serving the aerospace and defense sectors, the university held its first Small Business Forum on March 16.
The University of Colorado Boulder is one of only two academic institutions to contribute expertise, testing and refinements to the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC's) newly-launched, experimental licensing system for wireless research.
Benson, who has served as executive director of ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉú´«Ã½ÎÄ»¯×÷Æ· AeroSpace Ventures (ASV) since 2016, will provide seasoned leadership for both ASV and the Office of Industry Collaboration (OIC) in their respective missions.
A University of Colorado Boulder team has entered into a five-year, $4.5-million cooperative agreement with NASA to become part of a virtual institute to pursue the construction of astronomical observatories on the moon.
Students played significant roles in the February 19 launch of a SpaceX rocket carrying two ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉú´«Ã½ÎÄ»¯×÷Æ· payloads—one designed to help researchers better understand and perhaps outsmart dangerous infections like MRSA, another to help increase the proliferation of stem cells in space, a potential boon for biomedical therapy on Earth.
The flow and movement of individual solid particles—be it grains of lunar dust or the powdered contents of a medication—holds tremendous research value for scientists in a variety of fields. Now, a $3 million grant from the Department of Energy (DOE) will allow University of Colorado Boulder researchers to simulate particle behavior to a greater degree than ever before.
Alumni, industry execs and other space buffs celebrated the state’s growing prominence in aerospace—from probing the Bennu asteroid to an array of industry partnerships—at the second annual ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉú´«Ã½ÎÄ»¯×÷Æ· Aerospace Summit.