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January 24, 2022 | UCLA Spinout Concrete-AI Closes $2M Seed Round for Concrete Efficiency Platform
Concrete-AI was founded early last year to commercialize technology developed at UCLA’s Institute for Carbon Management by Gaurav Sant and Mathieu Bauchy. Sant and Bauchy are faculty members in UCLA’s Samueli School of Engineering in the departments of civil and...
January 5, 2021 | Octant continues pursuit of drug discovery
Octant, known for the company’s contribution of SwabSeq sequencing technology to the campus’s covid testing vending machines, graduated from the CNSI’s Magnify incubator. Co-founded by Sri Kosuri, an associate professor in the chemistry and biochemistry department,...
December 15, 2021 | Gene therapy start-up secures $3.4 million award from California stem cell agency
Los Angeles–based start-up MyoGene Bio has received a $3.4 million grant from the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) through its Translational Research Program, meant to accelerate the investigations needed to translate stem cell-based approaches...
December 2, 2021 | CIRM grants support promising stem cell-based projects; include two CNSI Magnify incubator start-ups
The California Institute for Regenerative Medicine recently approved a $44.1 million investment in 11 projects as part of the Translational Research Program (TRAN). The awardees include two start-up companies from the Magnify incubator at CNSI, MyoGene Bio and...
August 5, 2021 | Kite and Appia Bio Announce Collaboration to Research and Develop Allogeneic Cell Therapies for Cancer
Kite, a Gilead Company (Nasdaq: GILD), and Appia Bio, Inc., an early stage biotechnology company developing engineered allogeneic cell therapies from hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) for cancer patients, today announced a collaboration and license agreement to research...
July 12, 2021 | Incubators Nurture Local Bioscience Startups
Incubators have long been viewed as crucial to jump-start the development of tech, life science and other companies. However, up until 2004, Los Angeles County had only one bioscience incubator with lab space, a small facility in Chatsworth that recently went defunct....
May 11, 2021 | Appia Bio Launches With $52 Million Series A Financing and Establishes Scientific Advisory Board
Appia Bio, Inc., an early stage biotechnology company developing engineered allogeneic cell therapies from hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) for cancer patients, today announced its launch from stealth backed by $52 million Series A financing led by 8VC. Other investors...
April 19, 2021 | Team led by UCLA professor wins $7.5 million NRG COSIA Carbon XPRIZE
A group of UCLA engineers has become the first university team to win the grand prize in the NRG COSIA Carbon XPRIZE global competition. By mitigating the carbon footprint of concrete, the team’s invention could eventually be a major step in the global battle against...
UCLA alums court success as battery-tech entrepreneurs
Millibatt, Inc., has developed a second-generation battery and is gearing up for a campaign to engage corporate partners. Integral to the business’s growth have been startup-friendly resources at UCLA — including the California NanoSystems Institute at UCLA’s Magnify...
April 9, 2021 | Nammi Therapeutics Unveils Two Novel Immunotherapies at AACR Conference
Nammi Therapeutics, Inc. (Nammi), an LA-based immunotherapy company, announces its first two cancer drug candidates, one from each of Nammi's distinctive drug development platforms, Nammisomes and Masked ImmunoCytokines (MIC). Nammi...
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