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By Amy Jones | Bill L. Harbert Institute for Innovation and Entrepreneurship

A University of Alabama at Birmingham-led proposal is in the semifinal round of a grant competition that could yield up to $160 million in funding per project.

By Amy Jones | Bill L. Harbert Institute for Innovation and Entrepreneurship

State-based recipients of Phase I and Phase II Federal Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) grants are again eligible to apply for up to $250,000 in supplemental funding.

Two University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) faculty members have been named to the 2023 class of National Academy of Inventors (NAI) Senior Members.

Moon Nahm, M.D., and Michael Niederweis, Ph.D., were today announced as new honorees.

A new University of Alabama at Birmingham start-up has become one of the few Alabama-based therapeutics companies ever to have received a FastTrack award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

Start-ups launched out of the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) are part of Birmingham’s entrepreneurial ecosystem, with the University’s start-up portfolio boasting a mix of established companies and upstart businesses.

The Alabama Innovation Corporation awarded two University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) start-ups with grants during the second round of Innovate Alabama Supplemental Grant awards.

A fast-growing University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) start-up was recently honored as one of the top 500 fastest-growing companies in the nation.

By Amy Jones | Bill L. Harbert Institute for Innovation and Entrepreneurship

University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) faculty, staff and students interested in technology transfer now have a one-stop resource at their fingertips.

By Amy Jones | Bill L. Harbert Institute for Innovation and Entrepreneurship

University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) start-ups comprised more than a third of the Birmingham Business Journal (BBJ) list of Start-ups to Watch 2023.

By Amy Jones | Bill L. Harbert Institute for Innovation and Entrepreneurship

Members of the UAB Bill L. Harbert Institute for Innovation and Entrepreneurship (HIIE) team members continue to represent the University in the pages of the Birmingham Business Journal.

By Amy Jones | Bill L. Harbert Institute for Innovation and Entrepreneurship

IN8bio, the company behind today’s most innovative therapeutic research toward treating aggressive brain cancers, expects to advance its lead solid tumor drug program into Phase 2 clinical trials next year. The company was launched from technology developed at University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) and intellectual property licensed from the Bill L. Harbert Institute for Innovation and Entrepreneurship (HIIE) and two other institutions.

By Amy Jones | Bill L. Harbert Institute for Innovation and Entrepreneurship

With top Birmingham business leaders and community luminaries looking on, the Bill L. Harbert Institute for Innovation and Entrepreneurship (HIIE) team celebrated a year of focused growth while also looking forward to 2023 and its limitless potential.

By Amy Jones | Bill L. Harbert Institute for Innovation and Entrepreneurship

The University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) Associate Vice President Kathy Nugent, Ph.D., was announced as one of the Top Birmingham Women of 2022 by the Birmingham Business Journal.

By Amy Jones | Bill L. Harbert Institute for Innovation and Entrepreneurship

The Alabama Innovation Corporation, also known as Innovate Alabama, recently opened applications for the Innovate Alabama Supplemental Grant Program.

By Amy Jones | Bill L. Harbert Institute for Innovation and Entrepreneurship

Open the doors at TruSpin, and one’s eyes are immediately drawn to a machine spinning out a dense, wispy web onto an enormous spool suspended from above.

By Amy Jones | Bill L. Harbert Institute for Innovation and Entrepreneurship

C. Vivek Lal, M.D., FAAP, knows the challenge of launching a successful start-up.

By Amy Jones | Bill L. Harbert Institute for Innovation and Entrepreneurship

A UAB start-up company specializing in custom human cell engineering and drug discovery and commercialization has been acquired by an international drug discovery company.

By Amy Jones | Bill L. Harbert Institute for Innovation and Entrepreneurship

UAB start-up SunFire Biotechnologies LLC was awarded a grant by the U.S. Department of Defense to continue advancing an assay to support the development of Shigella vaccines.

By Amy Jones | Bill L. Harbert Institute for Innovation and Entrepreneurship

Earlier in his career, David Askenazi, M.D., MPH, heard a colleague speak about how important medical innovation is and how academics should devote time and effort to inventing devices and products to aid patients’ health, rather than only focusing on observing and reporting.

By Amy Jones | Bill L. Harbert Institute for Innovation and Entrepreneurship

When Thaddaeus Kwan was finishing his undergraduate degree at small Houghton College in New York, he knew he was interested in molecular biology and the study of various diseases, but wasn’t ready to commit to a specific field of study.

By Amy Jones | Bill L. Harbert Institute for Innovation and Entrepreneurship

The Alabama Innovation Corporation named the first round of small business recipients of the Innovate Alabama Supplemental Grant Program, seven of which are UAB start-ups.

The Harbert Institute of Innovation and Entrepreneurship (HIIE), a campus entity tasked with commercializing innovations developed by scientists, faculty and staff at UAB, recently collaborated with students in Dr. Douglas Ayers' Start-Up Planning and Pitching class in the Collat School of Business MBA program to develop business plans for two UAB technologies. This partnership culminated in presentations to a panel of local business leaders on April 20, 2022.