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Academia in Action: Celebrating women innovators

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Tomorrow, April 26, is World Intellectual Property Day, and PIVOT Center is joining the World Intellectual Property Organization and tech transfer offices from around the world to celebrate. This year’s focus is “Women and IP: Accelerating innovation and creativity” and celebrating the “can do” attitude of women inventors, creators and entrepreneurs around the world and their ground-breaking […]

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Startup news: The latest out of Myriad, Techcyte and Xenocor

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University of Utah startups continue innovating and discovering solutions to today’s unmet needs. Here’s a roundup of some of the latest news out of these companies: Myriad Genetics and Intermountain Precision Genomics Now Offer Solid Tumor Testing in All 50 States with Latest NY State Certification Myriad Genetics, Inc., (NASDAQ: MYGN), a leader in genetic […]

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Step forward in gene therapy to treat cause of sudden cardiac arrest in athletes

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This story was originally published on University of Utah Health. By University of Utah Health University of Utah Health scientists have corrected abnormal heart rhythms in mice by restoring healthy levels of a protein that heart cells need to establish connections with one another. That protein, GJA1-20k, is underproduced in people with a genetic condition called arrhythmogenic […]

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Academia in Action: ‘Collaboration is the key to success’

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When Jay Agarwal joined the University of Utah plastic surgery division in 2007, one of the first things he did was connect with faculty and students in the engineering department who could be interested in collaborating on future innovations. While the pairing of plastic surgery and engineering might not be obvious to all, Agarwal’s efforts […]

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New technique allows researchers to dig into causes of pediatric bipolar disorder

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This story was originally published on University of Utah Health. By University of Utah Health It’s extremely difficult to study the biological basis of psychiatric disorders, in part because researchers can’t easily collect brain cells from living people to study in the laboratory. Now, University of Utah Health scientists have developed a way around that. […]

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Startup news: The latest out of ARUP, Myriad Genetics and Peel Therapeutics

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University of Utah startups continue innovating and discovering solutions to today’s unmet needs. Here’s a roundup of some of the latest news out of these companies: ARUP Laboratories Chooses Gestalt’s PathFlow® Solution for Its Strategic Digital Initiatives Gestalt Diagnostics Inc., a leading provider of Artificial Intelligence (AI)-powered digital pathology solutions, and ARUP Laboratories, a national […]

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Academia in Action: Serial entrepreneur and innovator

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Wade Fallin started his career as a “serial entrepreneur” and “serial innovator” before he came to the University of Utah. “Instead of a professor starting an innovation company, I’m a serial entrepreneur who became a professor,” Fallin said. After receiving bachelor’s and master’s degrees in mechanical engineering, he began working for the large medical device […]

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U student teams to showcase innovative health care technologies at the 13th annual Bench to Bedside Competition Night

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This story was originally published on @TheU. By Center for Medical Innovation – University of Utah Health Over the 2022-23 school year, college students from the University of Utah and across the state have come together in multi-disciplinary teams to develop new, innovative solutions to problems facing today’s health care professionals. Twenty-seven student teams will showcase […]

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Startup news: The latest out of Blackrock Neurotech and Techcyte

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University of Utah startups continue innovating and discovering solutions to today’s unmet needs. Here’s a roundup of some of the latest news out of these companies: Creating Art with Thought Alone: First BCI-Generated Art Exhibit Opens in Washington, D.C. The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and Blackrock Neurotech announced the first-ever brain-computer […]

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