The University of North Texas (UNT HSC) Fort Worth Health Sciences Center aims to launch the next batch of great concepts to shape the long-term industry.
The innovation and entrepreneurship branch of the institution is for the next batch of applicants for its Innovation Challenge accelerator program. And it has attracted new funders and expanded its invitation to more people for this new cohort.
“Our project as a university is to create responses for a more active community,” Amber Yourman, the department’s senior program director, said in a statement. trouble?”
Launched last year, the Innovation Challenge provides marketers and training, plus $5,000 in non-dilutive financing, to help turn concepts into businesses. The last 4 demanding situations focus on specific topics such as animal studies and drug safety. In this new episode, the challenge is open to any solution aimed at addressing “unmet desires on the fitness science continuum. “
In addition to a broader scope, this challenge also casts a wider net for candidates. As a rule, demanding situations were open to UNT HSC members. But this time, the university was opened to jps applicants, employees and citizens. Fort Worth Health Network.
“Our long-term purpose is to get to a point where we are launching demanding situations open to the entire city of Fort Worth,” Robert McClain, associate vice president of UNT HSC’s studies and innovation division, said in a statement.
To expand the success of the accelerator program, the university has hired new sponsors for the program. Builders Backers, a venture capital acceleration company, joins the program to provide mentorship to determined entrepreneurs. And Arkansas-based Heartland Forward, a nonprofit “think tank” run by members of the Walton family, will adjust the program’s investment by a two-to-one ratio.
Applications for the next Innovation Challenge must be submitted by May 30. The program will begin on June 16 and run until August 25.
“One of our core values is to be visionary,” Yourman said. “That’s what we’re asking other people to do with those innovation challenges. “
Five local winners won up to $200,000 in investment to activate their responses in North Texas.
The National Institutes of Health award will take HSC to the AI/Machine Learning Consortium to Advance Health Equity and Researcher Diversity, or AIM-AHEAD program. scientific training and knowledge infrastructure.
The 20-year energy-saving functionality contract will include a task to modernize cooling demand in the university’s fitness studio labs.
The center’s director, Sandra Chapman, said the donation will help researchers expand methods and technologies “to make sure our most productive brain years are ahead. “
High school students who focused on the intellectual and emotional facets of physical care mastered the hackathon. This is impressive, of the 14 groups that competed, 4 were h8 school groups, 8 were university groups and two were professional groups. See most sensitive 3 winning submissions here.
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North Texas is a wonderful position with many opportunities.
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