UAB Institute for Innovation & Entrepreneurship

06/20/2014

http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/technology-transfer-brings-more-than-money-to-university-communities-263651411.html

TAMPA, Fla., June 18, 2014 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Just how valuable is "technology transfer" for universities? This question is addressed in "More than Money: The Exponential Impact of Academic Technology Transfer," an article from the National Academy of Inventors (NAI) that examines the impa…

12/18/2013

http://www.bizjournals.com/birmingham/news/2013/12/17/investment-to-help-soluble.html?ana=e_birm_rdup&s=newsletter&ed=2013-12-18

Soluble Therapeutics has secured a round of investment that will help the biotech...

12/12/2013

http://www.uab.edu/news/latest/item/3998-two-uab-professors-elected-as-fellows-to-national-academy-of-inventors

University of Alabama at Birmingham Professor of Microbiology David Briles, Ph.D., and Professor of Optometry Lawrence DeLucas, O.D., Ph.D., have been...

11/01/2013

Would you be interested in a free online course designed to help science and engineering researchers better understand how research commercialization works? If so, take a look and register for the course offered by the National Council of Entrepreneurial Tech Transfer. It take place November 14 thru December 12.

The Research Commercialization Course is recommended for all science, engineering and medical researchers in public or private research institutions (e.g., grad students, post-docs, and faculty). This is an indispensable course for S&E grad students looking for jobs in the next 6-18 months.

Now on its sixth run, the Research Commercialization Introductory Course is a very popular online course designed to help science and engineering researchers better understand how research commercialization works. Over 5000 students, faculty and researchers from across the US have taken this course…

10/25/2013

UAB has officially kicked off the public phase of The Campaign for UAB: Give Something, Change Everything, the university’s largest fundraising campaign to date,…

10/24/2013

Protect your pets! Watch out for these jerky treats which could be potentially dangerous to your cats and dogs.

WASHINGTON — The Food and Drug Administration is trying to solve a stubborn mystery surrounding the deaths of almost 600 dogs that ate jerky treats, and officials are hoping pet owners and veterinarians can help them figure out what exactly may be causing the illnesses.The problem appears to be tied...

10/21/2013

So many wonderful things are happening at UAB - The University of Alabama at Birmingham, in Birmingham, and throughout the state of Alabama. This article features just a few. A small reminder this state has "more to offer than sweet tea, southern rock and football."

Network World - When I say “Alabama,” what comes to mind? Lynyrd Skynyrd’s famous song “Sweet Home Alabama”? Definitely. Big burly football players and four NCAA national championships in a row? For sure. Silicon Valley of the Southeast? Wait, what?

10/16/2013

Oreos are addictive. I knew it! We are thinking the researchers should follow this with a study on Nutella.

That stuf is addictive

10/15/2013

Very exciting news!

The University of Alabama at Birmingham today announced that Illumina Inc. has licensed the rights to a DNA sequencing technology developed by a UAB m...

10/14/2013

Day 14 of the Government Shutdown. A biomedical resercher weighs in on how this is affecting (killing) research.

One area where the devastating effects of the shutdown aren’t getting much public attention is basic biomedical research. What’s happening to the thousands of researchers, laboratory animals and billions of dollars dedicated to understanding human disease and development? I talked …

10/10/2013

Are you as guilty as I am for multi-tasking? Well check out what a
Stanford University professor says about its effects on you brain.

Having 20 tabs open on your laptop while Snapchatting with your best friend eating a sandwich and listening to Taylor Swift is overwhelming. And makes...

10/08/2013

How has this impacted Science? Forbes weighs in.

An enormous telescope, known as Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array, shut down on Friday along with two other iconic radio telescopes operated by the National Radio Astronomy Observatory. The Very Large Array at Socorro, New Mexico, United States. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) The foremost astronomical inst...