A New Tech Helping Enable Telemedicine

Remote photoplethysmography (rPPG) has the potential to greatly expand telemedicine capabilities. In this article, I provide information about what this technology is, how it works, its accuracy, and the potential...

VIC Fellows Spotlight: Mark Jarboe, MBA

The VIC Fellows Program provides an opportunity for individuals with relevant expertise and interest to learn how to identify and evaluate promising innovations from global sources. We are pleased to highlight the...

Our Life Science and Healthcare Future

Dramatic life science advancements are emerging that are likely to transform healthcare over the next 20 years. For example, continued rapid progress of cell and gene therapies will offer a complete cure for a wide...

From the Corner Office: Cellia Science

As Cellia Science approaches the first anniversary of our formation, I am pleased to reflect on the progress we have made and am excited for what is to come. As the pandemic wanes, it is clear the demand for telehealth...

Part 2: Challenges and Solutions for University Technology Commercialization - License Terms

In Part 1 of this series, I touched on some of the unique considerations for advancing early-stage innovation beyond the academic setting. For this article, I’d like to dig deeper into the topic of university...

CardioWise Named Rising Star at the UCSF Health Awards

The University of California San Francisco (UCSF) Health Awards named CardioWise, Inc. as a Rising Star in the Clinical Diagnostic Tool category. The awards highlight the health tech industry, showcasing the best new...

Inside the OTT at Emory University with Associate Vice President of Research and Executive Director Todd Sherer, PhD

Please describe your background/career path that led you to your current role. I received my Doctorate in Toxicology and Molecular Biology from Washington State University and have spent the majority of my career in...

CardioWise, Inc. Named a Finalist in the Rising Star Clinical Diagnostics Tool or Platform Category by UCSF Health Hub

CardioWise™ is commercializing patented, Cardiac Computed Tomography (CT) machine learning analysis software, SQuEEZ™, which produces a quantified image model of human heart function. Fayetteville, AR - The University...

Tesseract Structural Innovations Partners with Cymat in APMA Electric Vehicle Project Arrow

Mississauga, Ontario – Cymat Technologies Ltd. (TSXV: CYM) (the "Company" or "Cymat") is pleased to announce that, in collaboration with design partner Tesseract Structural Innovations Inc. (“Tesseract”), Cymat has...

Dr. Brett King Joins BiologicsMD as Senior Scientific Advisor and Member of the Scientific Advisory Board

Leading expert in alopecia, Dr. Brett King brings deep academic insight, broad preclinical and clinical expertise and drug development experience to help BiologicsMD advance its innovative hair and bone therapies New...

VIC Fellows Spotlight: Danielle France, PhD

The VIC Fellows Program provides an opportunity for individuals with relevant expertise and interest to learn how to identify and evaluate promising innovations from global sources. We are pleased to highlight the...

Dr. Davies-Cutting Brings Industry Leading Technical Expertise to Nob Hill Therapeutics

Albuquerque. NM, Nob Hill Therapeutics announced today the appointment of Craig Davies-Cutting, PhD, as Vice President of Research and Development. Dr. Davies-Cutting will contribute his extensive respiratory product...

Individual Investor Access to VC Stage Investments

In my last article, I discussed why individual investors should include privately held, innovation-driven companies in a diversified and balanced investment strategy [Seven Reasons Venture Capital-Stage Companies Should...

Filtravate Awarded National Science Foundation SBIR Phase I Grant

LAS CRUCES, NM - Filtravate, an ultrafiltration membrane company, announced today that it has been awarded a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for...

VIC Foundry Awarded an NIH Grant for Development of Instrument for Ultrafast Detection of Protein Biomarkers

Instrument Will Enable Near Real-Time Detection of Biomarkers and Drug Targets Fayetteville, AR - VIC Foundry, in collaboration with the University of Buffalo, has been awarded a $259,000 grant from the National...

MedTech Development Built Upon Outstanding Medical Advice

Innovation in medicine shouldn’t be taken for granted. Medical revolutions like vaccines, antibiotics, recombinant human insulin, pacemakers, cardiopulmonary resuscitation, magnetic resonance imaging, and immunotherapy...

Nob Hill Therapeutics Awarded HHS Phase II Grant and Announces New CEO

Albuquerque, NM - Nob Hill Therapeutics (NHT), a VIC Technology Venture Development portfolio company, announced today that it has received an HHS phase II grant (up to $1.73M) to develop an inhaled therapy to treat...

VIC Tech Continues to Grow Its Medical Advisory Board

VIC Tech is pleased to announce the addition of four new members to its Medical Advisory Board to help guide VIC with additional domain expertise across a variety of life science disciplines. MAB members support VIC’s...

Seven Reasons Venture Capital-Stage Companies Should Become Part of Your Investment Portfolio

We live in eventful times. The world is changing at a dizzying pace…inflation, war and geopolitical instability, climate change, the pandemic, and supply chain issues are just a few of the important change factors. And...

VIC Fellows Spotlight: Alexandra Antonioli, MD, PhD

The VIC Fellows Program provides an opportunity for individuals with relevant expertise and interest to learn how to identify and evaluate promising innovations from global sources. We are pleased to highlight the...

CardioWise, Inc. Selected for the Inaugural Edison Accelerator By GE Healthcare in Collaboration with Nex Cubed

CardioWise Demonstrates innovative, Scalable Solutions for Cardiac Diagnosis Fayetteville, AR - Six digital healthcare start-ups from five countries have officially become the first cohort of the Edison Accelerator in...

VIC 2022 Mid-Year Update Executive Summary

The first half of the year has been exciting for VIC and our portfolio companies, including new pre-clinical and clinical milestones reached, products released to market, recent funding, and more Click Here to download...

Inside CTTC at Vanderbilt University with Assistant Director, Physical Sciences Ashok Choudhury

Tell us about your background in technology transfer and commercialization. What experiences led you to this role? During my role as a researcher at a national laboratory, I worked at a DOE “User Center” where I had the...

VIC Tech Announces New Class of Fellows

The VIC Tech investment model is unique; it sources promising life science innovation directly from universities across the nation, allocating funding to form startup companies and advance these technologies to exit via...

Cellia Science Announces Dr. Wilbur Lam as Chief Medical Officer

Dr. Lam brings clinical and technical expertise to hematology analyzer development at Cellia Science Fayetteville, AR - Cellia Science, Inc., announced today the appointment of Wilbur Lam, MD, PhD, as Chief Medical...

CardioWise Joins the Lucem Health Innovation Collaborative as a Founding Member

Bringing AI/ML to the Front Lines of Healthcare Fayetteville, AR - CardioWise® and Lucem Health™ announced that CardioWise has become a founding member of the Lucem Health Innovation Collaborative, a partner program...

Part 1: Challenges and Solutions for University Technology Commercialization

The honest truth? Deciding which early-stage technologies will be successful is really hard. This is even more the case when you add the challenges faced in a university setting. Although I’m currently on the investment...

VIC Tech Grows Its Medical Advisory Board

VIC Tech is pleased to announce the addition of five new members to its Medical Advisory Board to help guide VIC with additional domain expertise across a variety of life science disciplines. MAB members support VIC’s...

From the Corner Office: Filtravate

“We can’t change the whole world, but let’s try to work to make our corner of it better.” COVID-19 didn't happen in a vacuum, as our globe has several comorbidities occurring in tandem; global warming, clean water...

Cellia Science Formed to Develop and Commercialization Point-of-Care Hematology Analyzers

New company to advance blood cell analysis using label-free deep-UV imaging Fayetteville, AR - VIC Technology Venture Development, LLC (VIC) announced today the formation of Cellia Science, Inc., to develop and...

VIC Fellows Spotlight: Cristhiaan Ochoa, MD, PhD

The VIC Fellows Program provides an opportunity for individuals with relevant expertise and interest to learn how to identify and evaluate promising innovations from global sources. We are pleased to highlight the...

SAFE vs. Convertible Notes: Which is a Better Choice for Early-Stage Investments?

Experienced early-stage investors are familiar with convertible note investments, which have evolved slightly but have been around in largely the same form for more than two decades. Convertible note investments start...

Solenic CEO James Lancaster presents at the LSI Emerging Medtech Summit

Leaders in the MedTech market gather at the global Emerging Medtech Summit event, filled with industry-leading innovators, investors, and strategics. During the event, Solenic Medical CEO James Lancaster shares how...

From the Corner Office: Neurexis Therapeutics

Let me start by saying that the last two years have been a case study on focusing on priorities and filtering out noise. I’m fortunate to work in an area where it’s easy to see the long-term value of what we...

Inside CSURF with Managing Director, Steve Foster

Please describe your background After my undergrad in Biological Sciences, I spent 13 years at Amgen in Thousand Oaks, CA. After 11 years in the lab, I wanted to try something different and ended up in the Corporate...

Filtravate Highlighted by The Business Journals

A Las Cruces startup developing a production process for tunable water filters is raising its seed funding round. The startup, Filtravate, utilizes technology licensed from New Mexico State University. Angel investors...

VIC Fellows Spotlight: Gurshagan Kandhola, PhD

The VIC Fellows Program provides an opportunity for individuals with relevant expertise and interest to learn how to identify and evaluate promising innovation from global sources. We are pleased to highlight the...

VIC 2021 Annual Report Executive Summary

2021 was a highly productive year for VIC and our portfolio companies. Click Here to download the Annual Report Executive Summary or view it below.

VIC Technology Venture Development Establishes Medical Advisory Board

VIC’s newly formed Medical Advisory Board (MAB) provides VIC with additional domain expertise across a variety of life science disciplines. MAB members support VIC’s opportunity assessment team by reviewing new...

Letter from the CEO

It has been a year and ten months since the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a pandemic. Despite the continuing pandemic, VIC’s business has largely returned to normal albeit with increased remote work, more...

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