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How High-Tech Entrepreneurs Are Energizing Milwaukee

by Francesca
Engineering, Lubar Entrepreneurship Center, News, NSF I-Corps Program, Partnerships
10/31/2017
If you sense that something is stirring or hear a buzz, it might just be the sound of Milwaukee’s high-tech community building the foundation for a new entrepreneurial economy. In the past several years, an outcropping of high-tech entrepreneurs has emerged here, universities have gone all out to teach entrepreneurial skills, and established companies are on board to support this emerging startup ecosystem. But perceptions change slowly, as the underlying reality shifts.
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UWM-developed app helps protect patients’ brains during surgery

by Francesca
Engineering, Healthcare, Lubar Entrepreneurship Center, News, Partnerships
10/05/2017
The work of some UWM students is literally helping make people’s lives better. The students in UWM’s App Brewery worked with doctors at the Medical College of Wisconsin to develop an app that helps guide doctors during the delicate process of brain surgery. Incredibly, patients are awake during the surgery. The app, called NeuroMapper, is a tablet-based tool that aids surgeons who are removing a tumor or tissue by helping them test whether they are encroaching on tissue that would impair functions if removed.
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Grant funds UWM research to mass-produce water sensors

by Francesca
Engineering, Nanotechnology, News, NSF I-Corps Program, Sensors, Water
09/05/2017
A graphene-based water sensor developed at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee outperforms current technologies for sensing speed, accuracy and sensitivity – exactly what’s needed to continuously monitor drinking water for miniscule traces of contaminants like lead. But the cost of mass-producing these tiny sensors using traditional methods is high.
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Untangling health care costs, one cord at a time

by Francesca
Healthcare, Lubar Entrepreneurship Center, News, NSF I-Corps Program
08/09/2017

Nurses have assigned an array of nicknames to the web of medical lines, cords and tubes stationed by a patient’s bedside. Snake pit. Spaghetti. Rat’s nest.  With no universal system to sort the numerous cords and tubes, they frequently get twisted and disorganized. For health care workers, the problem of discombobulated cords can range in severity from a time-consuming nuisance to an occasional tripping hazard to something far more dangerous.

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T3 BioScience Successfully Concludes its Planned Capital Increase

by Francesca
Bioscience, News
08/07/2017
UWM and Duke startup T3 BioScience successfully concludes its planned capital increase on July 25, 2017 – accelerating its R&D development plans Milwaukee, August 1, 2017 – T3 BioScience announces the successful closure of its capital increase on July 25, 2017. The (undisclosed) raised capital will empower the biotech firm to execute its product and business strategy.
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