The Commonwealth Research Commercialization Fund will provide nearly $1.8 million to 9 UVa-affiliated ventures (1.11.12)
The Thomas Jefferson Partnership for Economic Development has announced its new president (12.20.11)
Charlottesville has received a high ranking in the Milken Institute Best-Performing Cities (Small Metro) Index for creating and sustaining jobs (12.15.11)
UVa's focused ultrasound technology has been named one of TIME Magazine's top 50 innovations of the year. Read the Daily Progress story here (11.26.11)
UVa Entrepreneurship Cup winners will address real world challenges, including on-line memorials for loved ones, charging cell phones using kinetic energy, cleaning polluted water using solar energy and using smartphones to create unique playlists (11.21.11)
Watch the CNBC webcast of the Rotunda Dialogue at the Jefferson Innovation Summit (10.10.11)
UVa has joined the Aqueduct Alliance to advise on the role of computer simulations for decision-making about watershed stewardship (9.29.11)
Mark Crowell, UVa's Associate Vice President for Research and Executive Director of Innovation Partnerships & Commercialization, attended President Obama's signing of the America Invents Act. See the Daily Progress and UVA Today stories (9.15.11)
An innovative UVa-Southwest Virginia partnership is helping to address the region's challenges on projects ranging from executive business classes to cancer screenings (9.9.11)
Local start-up, HemoShear, has been awarded a $4.3 million Phase II SBIR to profile the effects of 50 known drugs using its human vascular surrogate system (8.25.11)
Virginia has regained CNBC's designation as the Top State for Business (6.28.11)
The Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership at the Batten Institute has invited 12 early-stage ventures to participate in the Darden Business Incubator (6.24.11)
UVa has received $2.5 million from the Virginia Tobacco Commission to design and manufacture affordable, innovative housing systems and disaster recovery structures (6.12.11)
The Daily Progress highlights the emerging biotech industry in Central Virginia, including stories on UVa start-ups, Indoor Biotechnologies, HemoSonics and Phthisis Diagnostics, and featuring Q&A's with UVa's Mark Crowell (6.11)
The Charlottesville Business Innovation Council has honored local inventors, entrepreneurs and educators at the 2011 Innovation Awards dinner for leadership and innovative spirit (6.17.11)
ADial Pharmaceuticals, Intelliject and Tau Therapeutics, all with roots at UVa, competed for the 2011 VA Bioscience Company of the Year Award (5.26.11)
UVa's newly unveiled Virginia Nanoelectronics Center will focus on finding new materials, technologies and architectures for the next computer generation (5.25.11)
Phthisis Diagnostics, a start-up company with roots at UVa, has launched its first product - a DNA extraction kit for molecular diagnostics (5.16.11)
The UVa Coulter Translational Research Partnership has created a $20 million endowment to develop new technologies to improve patient care and human health (5.3.11)
Thomas Gallagher, Patrice Guyenet and Kodi Ravichandran were selected to receive UVa's 2011 Distinguished Scientist Awards (4.20.11)
UVa's Biomedical Innovation Fund has awarded $265,000 to six biomedical research projects that will advance health care and create economic growth (4.19.11)
Virginia's SBIR Match Program has secured $2 million frm the General Assembly to stimulate technology innovation and small businesses (4.5.11)
UVa spin-out, Indoor Biotechnologies, leads development of the CityCampus Biotechnology Center (3.28.11)
UVa inventors were awarded a record number of patents in 2010, resulting in UVa inventions that will address real world problems (1.20.11)
Initiative reCOVER has won first prize in a global housing competition to help with the reconstruction of Haiti (1.13.11)
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