Horn Entrepreneurship announces the first University of Delaware Tech Innovation Showcase on Thursday, October 4, 2018, 12:30 to 5 p.m. in Perkins Student Center. The showcase is an opportunity to engage with UD’s top scientists and engineers who are creating solutions to the world’s biggest problems.
Admission is $50. Early bird tickets are $25 through September 19. Student tickets are $5. To register for the event, visit https://bit.ly/2PdThS2.
Schedule
Tech Innovation Showcase Exhibitors
Seventeen teams will present their innovations and inventions. Exhibitors will include both startups and potential licensing deals in the following industries: advanced materials, agriculture, electronics/robotics, energy/cleantech, healthcare/biotech and software.
Healthcare/Biotech
Avkin
Amy Cowperthwait and Amy Bucha
CatX
Bruce Boman and Anne Shehab
ImmunoStrip Test
Yuriy Markushin, Simone Johnson and Taylor Brown from Delaware State University
Resonate Forward
Theresa Litherland, Ingrid Pretzer-Aboff, Richard Martin, Bruce Chase, Scott Jones, John Rabolt and Param Sreekanth
A Tissue-Engineering Platform to Induce Dormancy in Metastatic Breast Cancer Cells (UD 18-19)
John Slater and Shantanu Pradhan
Advanced Materials
Smartenius
Hao Liu and Erik Thostenson
Agriculture
Mass Propagation of Miscanthus×giganteus
Betrand Hankoua and Philip Bissiwu from Delaware State University
Regulatory Non-Coding RNAs as Determinants of Male Sterility in Grasses and Other Monocotyledonous Plants (UD 14-18)
Blake Meyers, Viriginia Walbot and Jixian Zhai
A Method to Prepare Silver-Amended Carbon Sorbents for Drinking Water and Irrigation Water (UD 18-29)
Pei Chiu, Steven Lobo and Danhui Xi
Electronics/Robotics
TFETLogic
Yuping Zeng, Kazy Shairar and Bruce Webber
TRIC Robotics
Adam Stager
Energy/Cleantech
RiKarbon
Basu Saha, Kumar Kautharapu, Sarah Wenyon, Gary McDaniel and Louis Dinetta
Shio
Robert Opila, Meixi Chen, Abhishek Iyer, David Angel and Louis Dinetta
Software
Cyber 20/20
John Cavazos and Sean Kilgalion
Geoswap
Jason Bamford, Keith Doggett and Jordan Gonzalez
Lyapunov Technologies
Duanyi Wei and Anthony Rossi
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