BU Ignition Awards to Accelerate Products for Repairing Damaged Teeth, Fighting Cancer, Boosting Reading Skills, and More
BU Technology Development’s 2023 Ignition Awards help researchers transform their ideas into life-changing products and services
Providing Doctoral Students Business Skills for Whatever Profession They May Pursue
Alexander Gold, a PhD candidate in microbiology at BU, described as “transformative” his time participating in BU Technology Development’s OTD Analyst program. Mengjie Yuan, a PhD candidate in BU’s School Medicine, described her participation in the Analyst program as a “very important experience for me”— one that helped her gain a coveted job offer from […]
FDA Clears Bionic Pancreas Developed in BU Lab for People with Type 1 Diabetes
The iLet Bionic Pancreas, which automates insulin delivery to manage the chronic disease, was invented in Ed Damiano’s biomedical engineering lab—and inspired by his son
Equity Conversations Between PIs and Graduate Students
Negotiating an Equity Split with Your PI It can be the most fraught of conversations. A graduate student working on research that shows commercial promise seeks a sit-down with his or her principal investigator (PI) about starting a company. How does that grad student or post-doc broach the topic of a university spin-out – and, […]
The Story of NanoView Biosciences, a BU Spin-out
NanoView Biosciences, a venture-backed startup purchased in 2022 by a California-based life science company, was entirely a creation of BU.
You Have an Idea for Impact. What’s Next?
Q&A with Rana K. Gupta, Director of Faculty Entrepreneurship Rana K. Gupta formerly served as director of faculty entrepreneurship at Boston University. You are the Director of Faculty Entrepreneurship, but I’ve heard you say that you don’t like to use the word entrepreneurship. Why is that? I know from working with researchers for the last […]
From Lab to Fab: How Analog Devices is Experimenting with a New Family of Products at BU
The Boston University Photonics Center is home to some of the finest on-campus business incubation facilities in the United States, including BU’s Business Innovation Center. BY GARY RIVLIN Mohamed Azize, a biomedical engineer and a senior manager at Analog Devices, the giant chip maker, had an idea for a new biomedical sensor that would improve […]
The Window is Never Closing on Customer Need
Rana K. Gupta formerly served as director of faculty entrepreneurship at Boston University, co-reporting to Technology Development and Innovate@BU. He helped BU researchers bring technology and other research breakthroughs to the marketplace to increase their impact. He also managed BU’s Ignition Award program, which offers faculty commercialization funding. Situation #1: When I first became a CEO in 2006, the Board […]
From the Lab to Your Life
The BU Ignition Awards help fast-track the commercialization of promising new research, from a tiny ring that stops chronic pain to soft robotic grippers that can pick up delicate objects.
The Journey to Impact: A Passion for Helping AKI Patients
An interview with Steven C. Borkan, M.D., Associate Professor of Medicine at BU, and Attending Physician at Boston Medical Center. The following discussion with Dr. Steven C. Broken took place at our BU Innovator of the Year Award event — where he explained his focus on treating acute kidney injury, his ideas on invention vs. […]