Firefly Photonics, a UI start-up company, was awarded a Demonstration Fund loan from the Iowa Economic Development Authority to support commercialization of mid-wave infrared light emitting diodes (LED) and photodetectors (PD) used in small, battery-operated methane and carbon dioxide sensors.

The Office of the Vice President for Research (OVPR) has selected the winners of fourteen awards that recognize exceptional researchers, scholars, innovators, students, and administrators, as a part of the annual Discovery and Innovation awards program.

Christopher Cooper, professor of urology at the University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine, was awarded the Pediatric Urology Device Prize from the Southwest National Pediatric Device Innovation Consortium for a home-based pediatric cystomanometer.

Milan Sonka, the Lowell C. Battershell Chair in Biomedical Imaging and professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Iowa, has been named a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI), the third UI faculty member ever named an NAI Fellow.

Spirovant Sciences, a gene therapy company developing treatments and cures for inherited respiratory diseases including cystic fibrosis (CF), today presented SP-101, an investigational novel recombinant adeno-associated virus (AAV) gene therapy selected for its tropism to human airway epithelia, at the 2021 North American Cystic Fibrosis Conference (NACFC 2021). Spirovant Sciences was previously known as Talee Bio, which was co-founded by University of Iowa faculty.

Cardio Diagnostics, Inc., a University of Iowa start-up company focused on making cardiovascular disease prevention and early detection more accessible, has been selected as the winner of the “Clinical Diagnostics Solution of the Year” award in the inaugural Biotech Breakthrough Awards program conducted by BioTech Breakthrough.