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OIE's Evan Facher Named Among Pittsburgh Business Times Power 100 Regional Influencers |
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With more than 80 startups launched over the past five years, a growing student entrepreneurship center, expanding industry engagement and an award-winning small business development center, the Pitt Office of Innovation and Entrepreneurship is getting noticed.
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| Institute For Entrepreneurial Excellence Director Bob Stein Featured in Pitt Magazine |
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Under Bob's leadership, the IEE in 2021 alone served nearly 1,800 business owners, completed nearly 15,000 consulting hours, facilitated 73 new business launches, assisted with $22.5 million in new capital raised and supported nearly 10,000 area jobs.
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| Chancellor: Pitt Rises to #3 Ranking in NIH Research Funding |
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Chancellor Patrick Gallagher reported that preliminary reports show a $77 million year-over-year increase; Pitt has leapt to the #3 ranking in NIH funding from #11.
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A New Take on an Old Device |
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When the opportunity to lead a Pitt innovation project on the journey from the lab to the market came along, Ross Beresford didn't hesitate to quit his job and come back to the University where he had graduated with a master's degree in bioengineering and medical product engineering. Today, he leads Pitt's newest startup. |
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| Upcoming Events |
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Sources of Funding: What You Need to Know |
Pitt entrepreneur in residence Dan Broderick reviews the sources of early-stage capital for academic innovators including angels, incubators, grants and more. |
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Lessons Learned From Medical Device Entrepreneurs |
| Join Utkars Jain and Adam Butchy from the Pitt startup Heart I/O as they discuss their journey to market for their medical device company and share insights into the product development and regulatory approval process and more. |
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Celebration of Innovation |
| Celebrate the accomplishments of Pitt innovators who are seeking to improve people’s lives through the commercialization of their ideas and discoveries. |
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| Petersen Events Center, University of Pittsburgh |
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| 5-7 p.m. |
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| Pitt Innovators in the News |
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Pitt-Developed Treatment for Rare Pediatric Neurodegenerative Disease Gets Regulatory Boost in Europe |
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Forge Biologics has been granted priority medicines designation for its treatment for Krabbe Disease developed by Pitt professor Maria Escolar. |
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| Startup Co-Founded by Pitt Alum Wins First Place in Evolving Energy Technology Showcase |
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Klye Wyche (A&S '19), is co-founder of Ecotone Renewables, which aims to make food and agriculture systems more accessible to local communities. The winning pitch on its Zero Emission Upcycling System for turning food waste into fertilizer earned the startup $7,500 |
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Commercialization Education, Funding and Partnering Opportunities
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Explore the Commercial Potential of Your Research With NSF I-Corps |
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Pitt investigators with innovations emanating from their research can explore the commercial potential of those innovations in one of two upcoming virtual courses through the NSF I-Corps Interior Northeast Hub.
These courses will help you identify target customer segments and how to interview them to understand their problems/needs. The next courses, consisting of six virtual meetings, are:
March 13 - April 12, hosted by University of Vermont
March 20 - April 19, hosted by Rochester Institute of Technology |
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| Innovation Commercialization Education Resources |
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The Innovation Institute has curated a library of videos and other resources to give you a primer on topics related to innovation commercialization, from submitting an invention disclosure to protecting intellectual property to de-risking your innovation as your prepare to license your technology or form a startup company. |
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| Start Smart Free Legal Workshops for Startups |
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| The Start Smart legal workshop series has four remaining sessions for the winter/spring of 2023: Hiring and Firing, a two-part workshop on how to structure a capital investment, and the popular "Worst Mistakes Made by Startups." |
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| Partnering Opportunity From CSL Behring |
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CSL Behring, a global bio-pharmaceutical company, is seeking proposals from Pitt faculty for translational research collaborations in select therapeutic areas, including immunology, hematology, respiratory, cardiovascular and metabolic, transplant and vaccines. The company is providing funding of up to $400,000 over two years for successful proposals. |
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More than 7 million people in the US alone suffer from chronic, non-healing wounds causing suffering and disability. Treating these costs more than $50B a year. Gel treatments are of interest to revolutionize the wound care and healing market, as well as novel peptides for tissue regeneration. |
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