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April 29, 2025

Tech Tuesday: Printz prints! Taking high-efficiency thin-film creation to new levels

April 24, 2025

Photo Gallery: Inventors shine on World IP Day, 2025

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April 18, 2025

TLA team member Paul Valdez receives university award for excellence

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Every University of Arizona inventor receives a custom challenge coin emblazoned with their name and the name and number of their patent.

University of Arizona ranks #22 on list of top 100 U.S. universities granted utility patents in 2022

Sept. 19, 2023

Published by the National Academy of Inventors, the list highlights American innovation and showcases the universities that play a large role in advancing the innovation ecosystem within the U.S. and beyond.

Wilma WIldcat poses with the 2022 I-Squared awards, ready to be handed out to the recipients.

UArizona I-Squared Awards & Expo celebrates innovation, commercialization and impact

Sept. 12, 2023

At this year's I-Squared Awards & Expo, TLA is honoring a best-selling nutrition author and healthcare inventor, a cybersecurity startup, a student who developed an app for teaching measurement-based quantum computation, and others from around the ecosystem.

A photo in the laboratory of Reglagene's Laurence Hurley, Vijay Gokhale, and Richard Austin.

UArizona startup and researcher to receive AZBio awards

Aug. 28, 2023

The Pioneer Award will go to John Galgiani, MD, director of the Valley Fever Center for Excellence, and a Fast Lane award will go to startup Reglagene, working to transform treatment for brain cancer.

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UArizona reports second-most inventive year on record

Aug. 9, 2023

Tech Launch Arizona has released its performance metrics for fiscal year 2023. During the past year, TLA filed 391 patents for UArizona inventions, executed 100 licenses and options for UArizona technologies, and launched another 7 startups. The office took in 298 invention disclosures from university innovators, almost matching last year’s record-breaking achievement of 303 disclosures.

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Innovation Inside and Out E15: Doug Hockstad – Associate Vice President at Tech Launch Arizona

June 22, 2023

Host Jeff Artzi welcomes guest Doug Hockstad, Associate Vice President of Tech Launch Arizona (TLA), to discuss the University of Arizona tech commercialization ecosystem.

UArizona health care researchers lead 2023 Flinn Seed Grants

June 8, 2023

The Flinn Foundation announced the awardees of its 2023 Seed Grants to Promote Translational Research, with researchers from the University of Arizona receiving seven of the 12 grants.

Group shot of University of Arizona inventors in front of the TLA office at The Refinery at The Bridges.

UArizona ranks 29 among top 100 universities granted US utility patents in 2022

April 26, 2023

The ranking is based on the number of patents issued to university inventors between Jan. 1 and Dec. 31, 2022. Ninety-two patents were issued during that period– six more than last year.

Michael Kuhns, associate professor in the Department of Immunobiology, and Shio Kobayashi, a post-doctoral research fellow, study the basic science of T cell activation in the immune system, and they are using that knowledge to find potential therapies for autoimmune diseases.

The University of Arizona and Foundery Sign Master Agreement to Translate Novel Discoveries into Transformational Immunotherapies

April 6, 2023

Through a master agreement with a biotechnology venture studio, UArizona researchers now have more support for opportunities to develop and commercialize new immunotherapeutics.

Protection for the ‘Internet of Things’ fueled by Arizona innovation has arrived

March 28, 2023

From automobiles to medical devices, the Internet of Things has opened the door for bad actors to attack in any number of ways. UArizona startup BG Networks has launched a new product to help mitigate the threats.

The 2023 Patent Medallion recipients and TLA colleagues pose for a photo.

College of Engineering celebrates patent inventors

March 21, 2023

The College of Engineering and Tech Launch Arizona recognized 20 inventors for their ingenuity at the college's second annual Patent Medallion Luncheon in early March.

Olga Rafikova and Ruslan Rafikov, College of Medicine - Tucson.

Startup Metfora to advance development of AI-enabled diagnostic technology

March 7, 2023

Startup Metfora, LLC is the recipient of a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase l Award from the NSF to pursue the detection of chronic diseases via multiplex analysis of circulating metabolites. They will receive a one-year grant of $255,706 to expand a diagnostic technology developed at the UArizona College of Medicine – Tucson.

Ricardo Valerdi on the baseball field with students.

For student success, Science of Sport hits a home run

March 6, 2023

The United States ranks 25th out of 37 nations in mathematics literacy as listed by the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). Systems Engineering Professor Ricardo Valerdi came up with a solution that's now impacting hundreds of thousands of students around the nation.