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NIH scientist Harvey Alter ’56, ’60M (MD) has received the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the discovery of the hepatitis C virus, a breakthrough the Nobel Assembly said “made possible blood tests and new medicines that have saved millions of lives.” He is the 13th Rochester graduate
The Fall 2020 round of the University’s Technology Development Fund (TDF) is now open. The TDF supports UR researchers as they develop their innovations to a more commercial endpoint. Awards are up to $100,000 and support animal testing, prototyping, and other proof-of-concept studies. The fund is open to all faculty,
University of Rochester startup, Simulated Inanimate Models (SIM), received the Outstanding Graduate Award and $400,000 in Round 3 of the Luminate NY competition. Luminate NY, which is administered by NextCorps, is the world’s largest business accelerator for startup firms that have optics, photonics and imaging enabled technologies. SIM manufactures surgical
Once again, the University of Rochester ranked among the top 100 worldwide universities granted U.S. utility patents in 2019, according to a report by the National Academy of Inventors (NAI) and the Intellectual Property Owners Association (IPO). Published annually since 2013, the report ranks the top 100 universities named as
Given the changing circumstances due to the Covid-19 pandemic, URVentures has decided to cancel the Spring 2020 round of the Technology Development Fund. Please direct any questions to the Fund’s Director. Omar Bakht Fund Director Omar_Bakht@urmc.rochester.edu
Apply to the New York Business Plan Competition by Noon on March 25 The Finger Lakes Region of the New York Business Plan Competition is accepting applications now through Wednesday, March 25, at noon (12:00 PM). Student teams attending colleges and universities in the Finger Lakes region are invited to
The University of Rochester has joined together with the University of Buffalo and Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center to form Empire Discovery Institute, a new drug discovery partnership. EDI aims to convert the institutions’ scientific breakthroughs into viable pharmaceuticals for commercialization and to strengthen the region as a hub for
The groundbreaking work of three scholars with ties to the University of Rochester took center stage when pioneering laser scientist Donna Strickland ’89 (PhD) and her Rochester advisor Gerard Mourou formally received the Nobel Prize in Physics, and Paul Romer, whose early career tenure-track appointment was in Rochester’s Department of