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Competition among U.S. colleges to win an increasing share of the billions of dollars in federal and private research funding available annually has reached a fever pitch in recent years, as schools look to boost their reputation, recruit top talent and use the money to spur economic development, including potential startup companies. UConn has put itself squarely in the middle of that battle, and has seemingly doubled down on efforts to raise its profile as a research university by recently nam...

A member of UConn’s Technology Incubation Program since 2017, Ashley Kalinauskas’ veterinary pharmaceutical startup Torigen Pharmaceuticals Inc. is getting ready to venture out on its own. The company, which is developing a cancer vaccine for animals, has raised $7.7 million to date, most of it in the last two years, and recently signed a 9,090-square-foot lease in Farmington, at 6 Executive Dr., where it will move its operations by summer.

Content from the January 31, 2022 of the Hartford Business Journal

Farmington-based bioscience startup CaroGen said its immunotherapy vaccine that targets chronic Hepatitis B has been recommended for $6.8 million in federal funding by the U.S. Department of Defense.

Stamford, CT (PRWEB) December 09, 2021 -- UConn Stamford’s Technology Incubation Program, TIP Digital, is pleased to welcome six additional startups to its

In just three years, Farmington-based medical device company CytoVeris has gone from a small startup with the goal of helping surgeons better detect cancer, to a company that’s raised $8 million and hired 19 employees, with plans to add six more in the year ahead. More importantly, its cancer detection device has made strides; a feasibility study is scheduled to take place in the spring, while clinical trials could start in early 2023, company officials said.

UConn interim President Dr. Andrew Agwunobi says he’s not thinking much about whether his position will become permanent. And the university’s board isn’t thinking much about replacing him. UConn’s Board of Trustees in May appointed UConn Health CEO Agwunobi as interim president, following former President Thomas Katsouleas’ sudden exit after serving in the position for just two years. About six months later, the board hasn’t started a search process for a permanent university head, ...

The amount of federal monetary awards that went to research at the University of Connecticut has doubled in the past four years, it was announced at the University of Connecticut Board of Trustees meeting Wednesday morning. In her 12-minute slideshow presentation titled “UConn Research, Envisioning Tomorrow,” Radenka Maric, UConn’s vice president for research, innovation and entrepreneurship, showed that the amount of federal research dollars earmarked for the university went from $184 mil...

A top research and entrepreneurship official at UConn says Connecticut has the opportunity to jump to the forefront of the cannabis industry’s startup scene. Abhijit (Jit) Banerjee, UConn’s associate vice president for research, innovation and entrepreneurship, said he thinks state funding for a limited-time incubator for UConn staff and faculty working in the cannabis space could yield innovative companies in the emerging legal marijuana market.

Stamford, CT (PRWEB) October 07, 2021 -- The data science sector is flourishing at UConn Stamford’s Technology Incubation Program, TIP Digital, since the