Bridget Hagen, Author at I-Corps Hub: Interior Northeast

April 9, 2024

Sostos Hits Milestones for Cancer Treatment AI Technology

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Sostos, an I-Corps alumni startup developing a cutting-edge AI technology for cancer treatment optimization, recently secured two SBIR Phase I grants — a $275K award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) and a $400K award from the National Cancer Institute (NCI).

February 12, 2024

I-Corps Alumni Make Humanitarian Impact in Ukraine

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Safe Pro AI, co-founded by Binghamton University alumni Jasper Baur and Gabriel Steinberg, is a Safe Pro Group company leveraging AI and machine learning to detect, label, and map mines and unexploded ordnance (UXO).

Photo: Pitt School of Medicine student Adi Mittal meets Katalin Kariko, winner of the 2023 Nobel Prize for Medicine, at the National Collegiate Inventor's Competition.

December 20, 2023

Astria Biosciences Wins $275K SBIR Award

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Astria Biosciences, which spun out of research conducted at the University of Pittsburgh, is developing the first simple, whole blood-based test to detect the presence and monitor the progression of cerebral aneurysms.

Photo: GEM Fellows I-Corps Course 2023 cohort.

September 20, 2023

GEM Fellows Course Aims to Broaden Impact of STEM Innovation

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IN I-Corps hosted a regional course specifically for GEM Fellows as a part of the Inclusion in Innovation Initiative, which aims to increase participation in I-Corps and commercialization activity among STEM researchers across diverse backgrounds.

Photo: Alexa Schmitz, Ph.D. ’18, (right) co-founder and CEO of REEgen, talks with Brooke Pian, lab director at REEgen, at the Center for Life Science Ventures in Weill Hall.

September 14, 2023

REEgen Awarded $275K SBIR Grant for Rare-Earth Tech

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This August, I-Corps alumni company REEgen won a $275,000 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) award from the NSF to further refine its technology to more sustainably extract rare-earth elements.

Cornell computer science professor Hakim Weatherspoon helping students.

September 5, 2023

Through I-Corps, Cornell Research Impacts Beyond the Lab

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For Cornell researchers developing innovative, problem-solving technologies, the work doesn’t end in the lab. Discoveries that reach the market can improve society and stimulate economic growth, and Cornell’s robust entrepreneurial ecosystem is there to support innovators who want to make an impact with their research.

Photo: teams in the 2023 BIO Regional Course

August 17, 2023

BioTech Innovators Engage with Customers at BIO

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This June, a group of researchers developing biotechnology innovations conducted customer discovery interviews at the 2023 BIO International Convention (BIO) in Boston through a tailored I-Corps regional course hosted by the Interior Northeast I-Corps Hub (IN I-Corps).

June 20, 2023

AvantGuard Closes $2.85 Million Seed Funding Round

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I-Corps alumni company AvantGuard (formerly Halomine) recently closed a $2.85 million seed funding round with investments from Blue Ledge Capital, SOSV, LaunchNY, and Red Bear Angels.

May 23, 2023

Energy Researchers Perform Customer Discovery at ARPA-E Summit

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The Interior Northeast I-Corps Hub (IN I-Corps) led a specialized regional course for energy researchers in March 2023 that involved tailored virtual entrepreneurship training, followed by sponsored travel to Washington, D.C. for the ARPA-E Energy Innovation Summit.

October 14, 2022

I-Corps Alum Engineers Bacteria to Make Green Energy Tech Cleaner

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Alexa Schmitz and Sean Medin, co-founders of I-Corps alumni startup REEgen, are using biological engineering to make the extraction and purification of rare earth elements more environmentally friendly.