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The ϳԹ School of Pharmacy’s Drug Interaction Database — the core research tool from the school’s nonprofit Drug Interaction Solutions team — is celebrating both a national award for innovation and two decades of independent funding through licensing agreements with companies, research institutes and regulatory agencies around the globe.

Creative Destruction Lab, a nonprofit organization for massively scalable, seed-stage, science- and technology-based companies, will launch its third U.S.-based location, CDL-Seattle, this fall. Based at the ϳԹ’s Foster School of Business, CDL-Seattle will be a partnership with Microsoft Corporation, the ϳԹ College of Engineering, Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering and CoMotion, ϳԹ’s collaborative innovation hub. The initial area of focus for CDL-Seattle is computational health.

A commitment to innovation powered the ϳԹ to a No. 7 ranking for graduate entrepreneurship programs by The Princeton Review. The 2021 ranking marks an all-time high — solidifying ϳԹ and the Foster School of Business as a leader in entrepreneurial education and incubation within the Pac-12 and across the Western United States.

With $4 million in matching funds from the National Institutes of Health, the ϳԹ has created a new integrated center to match biomedical discoveries with the resources needed to bring innovative products to the public and improve health. “The ϳԹ and regional partner institutions produce some of the most exciting biomedical discoveries and technologies in the world, but we always find it challenging to support their product development as they move into the early commercialization phases,”…

François Baneyx has been named Vice Provost for Innovation at the ϳԹ, Provost Mark Richards announced yesterday at the inaugural meeting of the ϳԹ Innovation Roundtable. Baneyx was appointed Interim Vice Provost for Innovation in July 2019. Baneyx is also director of CoMotion, ϳԹ’s collaborative innovation hub dedicated to expanding the economic and societal impact of the ϳԹ community. In addition, he is the Charles W.H. Matthaei Professor of Chemical Engineering and an adjunct professor of Bioengineering, and…

François Baneyx has been named the new director of CoMotion and Interim Vice Provost of Innovation at the ϳԹ, Provost Mark Richards announced today. Baneyx fills a position formerly held by Vikram Jandhyala, who died in March. “François is a respected researcher, teacher and innovator with connections throughout academia and industry, as well as firsthand experience with startups,” Richards said. “I am confident that with his interdisciplinary, collaborative approach to his work and leadership, François will build upon…

Researchers at the ϳԹ are among the winners of a startup challenge to shorten the transition time from lab bench to patient. The team, including members of professor Suzie Pun’s research group in the ϳԹ Department of Bioengineering, was selected based on its proposal and business plan to develop a targeted drug delivery system for breast cancer.