February 2021 – Accelerator Pipeline Newsletter – WARF https://www.warf.org Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation Wed, 22 Feb 2023 20:17:38 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.2.2 https://www.warf.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/cropped-favicon-32x32.png February 2021 – Accelerator Pipeline Newsletter – WARF https://www.warf.org 32 32 Building Momentum: A message from Greg Keenan https://www.warf.org/accelerator-pipeline/february-2021-accelerator-pipeline-newsletter/building-momentum-a-message-from-greg-keenan-2/ Tue, 16 Feb 2021 14:23:34 +0000 https://www.warf.org/?p=24457 Read More

]]> Welcome to our winter 2020/21 edition of the Accelerator Pipeline. Although we are still in the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic, our project teams continue to make significant progress in advancing their technologies closer to commercialization. I appreciate our UW-Madison faculty, students and staff’s resolve and flexibility to keep pushing their projects Forward. I also want to acknowledge the...

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]]> Technology Monitor: A new era of industrial hemp, transplant therapy, controlling quantum bits and more https://www.warf.org/accelerator-pipeline/february-2021-accelerator-pipeline-newsletter/technology-monitor-a-new-era-of-industrial-hemp-transplant-therapy-controlling-quantum-bits-and-more/ Tue, 16 Feb 2021 14:22:26 +0000 https://www.warf.org/?p=24460 Read More

]]> Hemp traits: Half a century ago the Badger state led the nation in hemp production. Today, a project by Mike Petersen and Shawn Kaeppler at the Wisconsin Crop Innovation Center (WCIC) is using state-of-the-art genetic engineering to improve industrial hemp. They are targeting traits such as eliminating THC production while upregulating high-value cannabinoids, and increasing yield and value...

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]]> One Shot: The future of transportation https://www.warf.org/accelerator-pipeline/february-2021-accelerator-pipeline-newsletter/one-shot-the-future-of-transportation/ Tue, 16 Feb 2021 14:20:13 +0000 https://www.warf.org/?p=24465 Read More

]]> The future of transportation – think urban air mobility – calls for a new generation of manufacturing. Grad student Buzz Rankouhi is building an audacious prototype and a company to do it. What do a Chicago skyscraper, NASA rockets and 3-D printing have in common? For Buzz Rankouhi, something very important. Rankouhi, a research associate at UW-Madison and CEO of Dastan Technologies...

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]]> WARF Venture Updates https://www.warf.org/accelerator-pipeline/february-2021-accelerator-pipeline-newsletter/warf-venture-updates/ Tue, 16 Feb 2021 14:19:59 +0000 https://www.warf.org/?p=24469 Read More

]]> WARF Ventures invests in select startup companies within the UW community. The team provides focused support and resources to advance technologies from UW–Madison and the Morgridge Institute for Research. Since the last Accelerator Pipeline (October 2020), WARF Ventures made investments in early stage companies working to make data analytics more accessible, improve patient outcomes and solve...

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