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Arizona's public universities are creating pathways for students to launch startups, access mentorship, secure funding, and bring new technologies to market. The recent Inferno Invitational Startup Cup showcased how entrepreneurship, innovation, and commercialization are helping the next generation of founders build companies that address challenges in healthcare, sustainability, cybersecurity, and beyond.

From the classroom to the marketplace: Arizona’s public universities fuel the next wave of startups | Arizona Board of Regents Inferno Invitational Startup Cup highlights the statewide pipeline of student-driven innovation.

Outbounding technology from a unique geographic ecosystem requires a specialized strategy.

In this episode of AUTM on the Air, we go inside the "engine room" of university innovation in South Africa with Ravini Moodley, Director of the Technology Transfer Office at Stellenbosch University’s Innovus.Instead of trying to out-compete massive, resource-heavy global ecosystems in every sector, Stellenbosch is intentionally doubling down on agricultural and sustainability technologies.

Ravini sits down with us to unpack the ground-level pipeline moving research from disclosure to a functional spin-out.

🎧 Listen here: https://bit.ly/3RHDOOP.

What if one of the world’s biggest public health challenges could be addressed by rethinking one everyday object?

This story highlights how researchers from Georgia Institute of Technology, Georgia Tech Research Institute, and global academic partners came together to reinvent the toilet through the Gates Foundation’s Reinvent the Toilet Challenge.

The Generation 2 Reinvented Toilet is designed to safely process waste at the source without requiring traditional sewage infrastructure or continuous water access, opening new possibilities for communities around the world facing sanitation challenges. 🚽🌍

Read how global collaboration, research, and innovation are helping tackle one of the world’s most urgent sanitation challenges: https://bit.ly/4tXO9nf

Members of the AUTM team recently took a road trip to Milwaukee for the Founder Factory IP University Pitch event, joining innovation leaders including Kashmira Kulkarni, Chair of the AUTM Foundation, and Laura Savatski, Past Chair of the AUTM Board, to learn more about how early-stage innovation is being supported across Wisconsin.

The event highlighted the importance of building stronger pathways for discovery-stage technologies and supporting innovators early in the commercialization journey — work that closely connects to AUTM’s Kauffman-funded discovery initiatives focused on strengthening innovation ecosystems and helping promising research move closer to real-world impact.

A simple blood test could change the future of Alzheimer’s detection.

On the latest episode of AUTM on the Air, Dr. Yuanbing “Jason” Jiang from Hong Kong University of Science and Technology shares how his team developed a 21-protein blood biomarker panel capable of detecting early-stage Alzheimer’s with about 96% accuracy.

The conversation explores:
🔸 Why Alzheimer’s can begin developing decades before symptoms appear
🔸 How advances in proteomics made large-scale blood testing possible
🔸 Why moving beyond amyloid markers improved detection accuracy
🔸 How lower-cost, less invasive testing could expand access worldwide
🔸 What earlier diagnosis could mean for treatment, clinical trials, and patient care

🎧 Listen now:
Apple: https://apple.co/3ebWO4n
Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3C2dVO8

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