• Drexel Selects Orthopedic Surgical Device Startup for Innovation Fund Support

  January 22, 2025

  Drexel University has selected Ultrafix, a Drexel-affiliated orthopedic medical device startup, to receive support from its Innovation Fund. The company, founded by Sorin Siegler, PhD, professor emeritus in Drexel’s College of Engineering, will receive an investment of $150,000 from the fund.

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• Academic Research for Societal Impact: How NSF I-Corps Empowers Researchers Through Early Customer Discovery

  October 28, 2024

  As the Manager of Entrepreneurial Community at Drexel Applied Innovation, I am always promoting the NSF I-Corps program to help researchers expand the impact of their research. The program enables participants to explore the question of, “who outside of academia cares the most about my innovation, why, and by how much?” To answer this question, NSF I-Corps participants connect with the unmet needs of industry to learn about what real world problem their innovation is solving, how intense that problem is, and who it affects.

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• Advancing Cancer Research Through Innovation: Dr. Emily Esquea’s Journey From Lab To Real-world Impact - Stories Of Impact Series

  July 17, 2024

  Drexel Applied Innovation is dedicated to expanding the impact of Drexel research through technology transfer. Drexel innovators are achieving incredible, inspiring feats across campus; the aim of this series is to showcase the research being conducted by these innovators and demonstrate how that research is being implemented to create real-world impact, thereby impacting the broader Drexel innovation community and beyond.

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• Drexel University Innovation Fund Opens Applications for Third Cohort

  June 04, 2024

  The Drexel University Innovation Fund (DUIF) makes early-stage investments in Drexel-affiliated startups. This includes startups founded by students, alumni, postgraduates, and faculty-members, as well as startups founded to commercialize Drexel scientific research.

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• The Drexel University Innovation Fund Builds Drexel Community at First In-Person Pitch Day

  March 19, 2024

  Five finalist startup founders pitched for $150,000 equity investments as part of the second cohort of The Drexel University Innovation Fund (DUIF). DUIF launched in 2023 and has announced investments in two Drexel-affiliated startups to-date. In preparation for this second cohort, the Innovation Fund operations team received 22 applications from candidate startups, student enrollment in the integrated course with the Charles D. Close School of Entrepreneurship increased by 218%, and the Drexel Applied Innovation entrepreneurial community has continued to grow.

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• Exploring the Impact of Hedonic Hunger: Dr. Michael R. Lowe’s Journey from Theory to Real-Life Applications - Stories of Impact Series

  February 14, 2024

  Drexel Applied Innovation is dedicated to expanding the impact of Drexel research through technology transfer. We are excited to introduce the first of many “Stories of Impact” that we will be sharing. Drexel innovators are achieving incredible, inspiring feats across campus; the aim of this series is to showcase the research being conducted by these innovators and demonstrate how that research is being implemented to create real-world impact, thereby impacting the broader Drexel innovation community and beyond.

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