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April 24, 2025

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UArizona bioscience startup selected for Flinn Foundation program

March 2, 2023

With help from Tech Launch Arizona, TheraCea was launched in 2020 to develop diagnostic agents that allow oncologists and pharmaceutical companies to select the right segment of patients who will be responsive to specific immunotherapy drugs.

UArizona COVID-19 treatment takes next step toward public impact via license to pharmaceutical company

Feb. 27, 2023

UArizona researchers have been developing a new compound that inhibits SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19. The university has now exclusively licensed the technology to Sunshine Biopharma Inc. to take forward for further development and testing.

UA President Robert C. Robbins and Professor Moe Momayez talking about what is being displayed on a laptop screen in front of them.

Innovative faculty elected to the National Academy of Inventors

Feb. 15, 2023

The National Academy of Inventors has announced three more UArizona innovators to its list of Senior Members. All will be inducted into the Academy at an event in Washington, D.C., this summer.

Left to right: Justin Hyatt, Roslyn Norman, and Christian Davila

Startup Paramium Technologies to scale up business of shaping precision satellite reflectors

Feb. 2, 2023

UArizona startup Paramium Technologies recently secured a $1M SBIR grant to scale up their business of producing highly customized curved reflectors for radio astronomy and satellite communications.

Joel Berkson uses the technology he invented to analyze a curved antenna surface.

UArizona partners with regional universities in re-envisioned NSF I-Corps Hub program

Jan. 17, 2023

In 2011, the National Science Foundation launched the I-Corps program to teach teams – each consisting of a principal investigator, an entrepreneurial lead, and a business mentor – how use the customer discovery process to quickly assess the market potential of their inventions. The inaugural Desert and Pacific Region I-Corps Cohort will begin on Friday, January 27 and run each Friday until February 24. Applications open!

Left to right: Jordan Lancaster, Jen Koevary, and Steven Goldman of the University of Arizona and startup Avery Therapeutics.

What do you do with an early-stage invention? Move it forward with Asset Development funding.

Jan. 10, 2023

Inventions that come out of research are often early stage and not ready to be considered for the business world. The TLA Asset Development program provides funding to move inventions toward market readiness. Funds are available, the time to apply is now.

Floyd "Ski" Chilton (second from left) and his lab team examine how genetic and epigenetic variations interact with human diets to drive inflammation and inflammatory disorders, as well as psychiatric and developmental disorders.

UArizona nutrition expert named to National Academy of Inventors

Dec. 8, 2022

University of Arizona professor Floyd "Ski" Chilton has been named a fellow of the National Academy of Inventors, the highest professional distinction awarded to academic inventors.

A clipboard with "asthma" and a stethoscope.

Startup RaeSedo Inc. awarded $3.4M STTR Grant to Develop New Asthma Therapies

Nov. 21, 2022

UArizona researchers in partnership with a local bioindustry startup have been awarded $3.4 million to advance new asthma therapies originally developed at the UA College of Medicine – Tucson and the BIO5 Institute.

The Iluminos team in the lab: Chris Hulme, James Foley, and Travis Dunckley.

Researchers develop drug to treat Alzheimer's disease in Down syndrome patients

Nov. 17, 2022

Arizona researchers have co-invented a drug that may dramatically slow the onset of Alzheimer's disease. They have started a company to commercialize the invention and have now received a $3.5M federal STTR grant to prepare the drug for clinical trials.

Robin Polt, Inventor of the Year, offers comments to the audience.

UArizona celebrates 10 years of innovation, commercialization and impact

Oct. 13, 2022

On October 11, 2022, TLA hosted its ninth annual I-Squared Awards and Expo. Along with honoring the top inventors, entrepreneurs, and community leaders dedicated to commercializing UArizona inventions, the office celebrated its 10th anniversary.

Alzheimer’s researcher and anti-inflammatory startup receive Arizona biotech honors

Sept. 23, 2022

AZBio has announced its award honorees for this year, which include neuroscientist Roberta Diaz Brinton, director of the Center for Innovation in Brain Science at the University of Arizona, and UArizona startup Aqualung Therapeutics Corp.

Sunset over the wildcats statue on the UArizona mall.

UArizona joins seven regional institutions to form new National Science Foundation I-Corps Hub

Sept. 22, 2022

The National Science Foundation has announced the addition of five new NSF Innovation Corps Hubs to its National Innovation Network. The University of Arizona, which has been an I-Corps Site since 2016, will now be a part of the Desert and Pacific Region Hub.