The University of Kentucky’s Office of Technology Commercialization (OTC) hosted leaders from 24 universities on campus for two days last week for a “Site Leads Summit,” the first planning session for the Southeast XLerator Network Hub.
The University of Kentucky’s Office of Technology Commercialization (OTC) working with the Cabinet for Economic Development’s (CED) KY Innovation office and the University of Louisville is leading the development of a Commonwealth Commercialization Center (C3), a new approach to resourcing all commercialization and intellectual property needs across the Commonwealth’s public universities and colleges.
The Kentucky Cabinet for Economic Development is investing $750,000 to support startups and entrepreneurs in Lexington and Central Kentucky under this initiative.
Just one year after joining the Oncology Research Information Exchange Network (ORIEN), the University of Kentucky Markey Cancer Center has already enrolled more than 1,000 patients. ORIEN is an alliance of 19 major cancer centers that shares information to allow its members to push forward evidence-based cancer care to patients.
Are Uber and Lyft making traffic in San Francisco worse? The short answer is yes — according to the San Francisco County Transportation Authority, who partnered with the UK College of Engineering on a new, eye-opening report.
XLerateHealth LLC, a Louisville-based health care technology accelerator that focuses on startups and commercialization, will join forces with a consortium of 24 academic institutions led by UK, in partnership with UofL and West Virginia University.
Now, Smith's expertise in systems engineering is being used in another, potentially life-saving capacity — the Bloomberg Philanthropies 2018 Mayors Challenge, which recognizes innovative ideas aimed at tackling urgent problems.
Located in downtown Lexington, aerospace startup Space Tango describes itself as "a full-service solution to micro-gravity research and manufacturing.”
