UCI Startup, Hyperwall, OEM's Technology to Samsung
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Friday, 16 January 09 - 01:16 PM (GMT -08:00) By Bob Nidever in NEWS_Startups |
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" If you like wide-screen TVs and computer monitors, check out Hiperwall's video wall technology. The startup has demonstrated its system running on 40 LCD monitors combined into a display that's 10-feet-high and 27-feet-across. Now, Samsung Electronics has agreed to distribute and support the super-sized, high-resolution displays.
" Hiperwall is a spin-off of the University of California at Irvine. The technology was developed at UC Irvine's California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology. Hiperwall, the company, was created a year ago to commercialize the technology, which goes by the same name. The deal with Samsung represents its first OEM distribution agreement. [InformationWeek] MORE
WaterStyle Holdings, Inc. and UCLA Announce an Exclusive License for Certain Advanced Technology for Water Sustainability
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Wednesday, 19 November 08 - 01:55 PM (GMT -08:00) By Bob Nidever in NEWS_Startups |
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" LOS ANGELES, Nov 19, 2008 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- WaterStyle Holdings, Inc. ("WSH") and UCLA jointly announce the licensing of certain key intellectual property for use in the water sector. The intellectual property focuses on advanced water systems, services and solutions for desalination, reclamation, reuse and sustainability. Under the terms of the License, WSH will have exclusive worldwide rights to this technology. This serves as the foundation for WSH's technology platform and systems capability.
" Some of unique features to these water technologies include smart water systems deploying advanced remote monitoring and control, rapid process diagnostic systems and field testing, membrane process monitors, high performance nano-structured membranes for nanofiltration and Reverse Osmosis ("RO") desalination, advanced processes for high recovery water desalination, and new methods for process optimization. The technologies developed by the UCLA WaTeR Center are pioneering technologies that have emerged from extensive multidisciplinary research and knowledgebase of fundamental science and technology. [marketwatch] MORE
Amyris: UC Berkeley Alternative Fuel Startup Opens Prototype Facility
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Sunday, 16 November 08 - 12:39 PM (GMT -08:00) By Bob Nidever in NEWS_Startups |
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"Yeast, when left to its own devices, eats sugar and secretes alcohol. Amyris has engineered it to eat sugar and secrete hydrocarbons instead.
That, in a nutshell, is the business plan for the company, a synthetic biology specialist that spun out of UC Berkeley. Through selective breeding and genetic engineering, the company has created a group of organisms that effectively release industry-standard fuels, chemicals or fuel precursors when they go to the bathroom.
The company grew out of research conducted by Jay Keasling and Jack Newman at Berkeley. The two were pioneers in the field of synthetic biology, which is the art/science of decoding natural processes in a lab and then trying to recreate them. Why can abalone create hard shells out of plain chalk? Synthetic biologists try to figure out questions like that. [greentechmedia] MORE
Wireless Healthcare Startups - UCSD Professor Launches Santech
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Sunday, 16 November 08 - 11:50 AM (GMT -08:00) By Bob Nidever in NEWS_Startups |
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" Santech uses accelerometers – the technology behind the motion-sensing Nintendo Wii – along with GPS and heart-rate monitors to track a participant's location and activity level. Information is sent from the sensors, via Bluetooth wireless to a phone, which relays it to Santech servers. [unionTribune] MORE
UCLA Startup, Solarmer Energy, Inc., to Present on Plastic Solar Cells with Greater than 5% Efficiency
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Friday, 26 September 08 - 11:21 AM (GMT -08:00) By Bob Nidever in NEWS_Startups |
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EL MONTE, CA--(Marketwire - September 26, 2008) - Dr. Vishal Shrotriya, Director of Technology Development, will present Solarmer Energy, Inc.'s progress toward delivering commercial grade plastic solar cells and future plans at the Organic Semiconductor Conference in Frankfurt, Germany on September 30, 2008. The talk will focus on three key efforts contributing to significant progress towards the company's goals: success in materials development leading to improvements in efficiency, an emphasis on making translucent solar cells a reality, and plans to prove the manufacturability of Solarmer's plastic solar cells.
"We are very excited about having the flexibility to work with three distinct polymer systems that have attained more than 5% efficiency in the lab," said Dr. Yue Wu, Senior Researcher and leader of Solarmer's Device Engineering team. "These results were made possible through the successful combination of the device engineering and materials development expertise of Solarmer and our partners, and will give us multiple routes to explore to achieve higher efficiency and successful delivery of our commercial grade prototype." [marketwire] MORE
UCI Startup, RF Nano, Receives $8M to Develop Carbon Nanotubes for High-performance Wireless Communications
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Monday, 18 August 08 - 11:28 AM (GMT -08:00) By Bob Nidever in NEWS_Startups |
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"Oxantium Ventures raised $8 million in venture capital to speed up technology development at RF Nano Corp., which makes radio frequency devices from carbon nanotubes.
The D.C.-based technology investment group led the round and Laguna Beach, Calif.-based Okapi Ventures, an existing RF Nano investor, also participated.
Newport Beach, Calif-based RF Nano is prepping its devices to dive into the $60 billion analog and mixed-signal communications markets. The three-year-old privately held company is targeting the sampling of its first products for the first quarter of 2009." [WashingtonBusinessJrnl] MORE
UCI Startup, Antigen Discovery Inc., Awarded SBIR Phase II Grant to Commericialize Novel Protein Microarray Based Platform
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Friday, 01 August 08 - 09:52 AM (GMT -08:00) By Bob Nidever in NEWS_Startups |
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"The major bottleneck that limits the translation of readily available genomic information into the development of next generation diagnostics, vaccines and therapeutics, is the continued lack of effective antigen and biomarker discovery tools," said Dr. Xiaowu Liang, CEO of ADI. "We are grateful that the SBIR program continues to fund ADI and our UCI collaborators in the further development of this exciting new technology platform that truly revolutionizes the screening and detection of disease markers." [prnewswire] MORE
Nitride Solutions wins UCSB start-up prizes
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Saturday, 05 July 08 - 10:03 PM (GMT -08:00) By Bob Nidever in NEWS_Startups |
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" In this year’s University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) Technology Management Program New Venture Competition at the end of May $25,000 was distributed between five winners in different categories. Winning $10,000 and $5,000 in the ‘Most Fundable Idea’ and ‘Dow Materials Use’ categories, respectively, was the startup Nitride Solutions of Santa Barbara, CA, USA.
" Nitride Solutions is dedicated to commercializing a process developed in UCSB’s engineering labs for the manufacture of high-quality aluminum nitride (AlN) substrates, enabling the fabrication of low-cost, high-efficiency and long-life ultraviolet LEDs (used for sterilizing medical devices or biological detection) and electronic devices that are currently not commercially available. [semiconductorToday] MORE
Startup Commercializes UCLA Technology for Wearable Artificial Kidney
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Friday, 11 April 08 - 12:25 PM (GMT -08:00) By Bob Nidever in NEWS_Startups |
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" Singapore – March 8, 2008: University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) has entered into a world-wide, exclusive licensing agreement with AWAK Technologies Pte Ltd for the development and commercialization of a peritoneal-based automated wearable artificial kidney (AWAK) for the treatment of patients with end-stage renal disease (ESRD).
The peritoneal-based AWAK requires no extracorporeal circulation, and is therefore “bloodless”. It is designed to continuously regenerate and reuse the spent peritoneal dialysate in perpetuity and is, therefore, also “waterless”. A sorbent-based assembly regenerates both the aqueous and the protein components (AqC and PrC) of the spent peritoneal dialysate, and produces a novel, autologous protein-containing peritoneal dialysate. [BioSpace] MORE
An important feature of AWAK is that it is peritoneal dialysis-based. Current work by others on wearable artificial kidneys evolve around the technology of hemodialysis or hemofiltration, which require continuous anticoagulation of the extracorporeal circulation and are encumbered with potential immunologic and non-immunologic complications of continuous blood-artificial membrane interactions. Continuous extracorporeal circulation also exposes patients to the constant risk of exsanguinations through accidental disruption of the blood circuit. Prior clinically evaluated hemofiltration-based wearable artificial kidneys have consistently failed because of clotting within a week, in spite of aggressive anticoagulation.
UCI Startup, Neuromed, Tests Electronic Treatment for Pain, Depression
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Thursday, 06 March 08 - 11:21 AM (GMT -08:00) By Bob Nidever in NEWS_Startups |
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"'It sounded too good to be true," said Dave Schetter, the UCI administrator who oversees the university's dealings with technology companies.
" Hand-held electrical devices that zap away cold sores and genital herpes outbreaks, attacking them through the body's nervous system?
" Similar technology to combat pain, depression, tremors, Parkinson's disease and Alzheimer's disease?
" Schetter was nervous when he heard about the potential benefits of those devices, invented by Dr. Leon Silverstone and being prepared for regulatory approval and commercial launch by his company, NeuroMed Devices Inc. of Laguna Niguel. [ocregister] MORE
UCSD Startup, Traversa, Raises $2 Million in Angel-led Series A Financing
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Monday, 03 March 08 - 08:13 AM (GMT -08:00) By Bob Nidever in NEWS_Startups |
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" Traversa Therapeutics, Inc., a privately held developer of RNAi delivery technologies, announced recently the completion of a $2 million Series A financing led by the San Diego Tech Coast Angels and joined by investors Mesa Verde Venture Partners and Morningside Group.
" Traversa was founded with technology developed by Professor Steven F. Dowdy, Ph.D., and his research group at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and the University of California San Diego (UCSD) relating to siRNA delivery and the induction of RNA Interference (RNAi). [venturecapital reporter] MORE
Cavity-fighting Herbal Lollipop Created by UCLA Professor, Developed by Startup
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Thursday, 28 February 08 - 02:49 PM (GMT -08:00) By Bob Nidever in NEWS_Startups |
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" UCLA microbiologist Wenyuan Shi collaborated with the research company C3 Jian to develop a therapeutic orange-flavored lollipop that is actually good for your teeth. Herbal treatments have been used in China for more than 3,000 years. Professor Shi studied and tested over 1,000 Chinese herbs and determined that an extract of licorice root (Glycyrrhiza uralensis) targets and kills the primary bacteria (streptococccus mutans or S.mutans) responsible for tooth decay. The sugar-free lollipop, marketed as Dr. John's Herbal Candy, is infused with a natural ingredient found in licorice that works against tooth decay. It appears that taking care of your teeth can actually be fun and tasty. [TheFutureofThings] MORE
UCSD project is lauded for startup help
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Thursday, 28 February 08 - 02:34 PM (GMT -08:00) By Bob Nidever in NEWS_Startups |
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" The William J. von Liebig Center at the University of California San Diego is a model in how to promote the commercialization of discoveries made in the university's classrooms and laboratories, according to a national study released yesterday.
" In its first six years, the center, at UCSD's Jacobs School of Engineering, fostered the startup of 16 companies that have acquired more than $71 million in private capital. The center also funded projects that resulted in four revenue-generating licenses for the university, according to the study by the entrepreneurship-boosting Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation and the Max Planck Institute of Econmics. [SignOnSanDiego]MORE
UCSB gets serious about spin-offs
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Monday, 25 February 08 - 07:15 AM (GMT -08:00) By Bob Nidever in NEWS_Startups |
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" A new program to accelerate and streamline the creation of spin-off businesses from the world-class research at UC Santa Barbara has been launched. UCSB’s Venture Acceleration Initiative (VAI) program supports new ventures through a highly integrated approach to the complex process of moving technology from the lab bench to commercialization. The initiative will benefit not only faculty entrepreneurs and their investors, but will also provide a significant boost to the local and regional economies as the nascent businesses take shape and grow.
" Dr. Don Oparah, the founding director of VAI, emphasized the importance of partnership to the success of the new initiative, stating, “Working closely with the external business world, the local community and other key stakeholders across the state and beyond is an essential part of our strategy for delivering on the vision and promise of VAI.” [MercuryNews] MORE
UCSB Faculty Startup Brings Locationing to Passive RFID
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Saturday, 23 February 08 - 08:05 PM (GMT -08:00) By Bob Nidever in NEWS_Startups |
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" A startup called Wirama has announced proprietary technology that it claims allows precise locationing using Gen2 passive RFID. It is an unusual application for passive RFID, which has historically been used to determine if a tagged object is present within a read field and what its tag data contains, but not to identify the exact position of the object. RFID Update spoke with Wirama co-founder and president Ben Wild about his company's innovation and its potential applications. [RFIDupdate] MORE
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