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Get to Know the 2017 GIA Finalists: Viosera

Six ventures will compete in the Global Impact Award finals on Monday, October 23rd. Up to $50,000 will be awarded to one or more ventures. Since the announcement of the 2017 finalists in April, all finalists have been paired up with industry

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LEAP

Five WashU research teams win LEAP Inventor Challenge Awards

Five Washington University in St. Louis research teams have been selected to receive funding as part of the Summer 2017 cycle of the Leadership in Entrepreneurial Acceleration Program, better known as the LEAP Inventor Challenge (LEAP). The challenge’s facilitators anticipate

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People may laugh at you…

Benjamin Franklin, Nikola Tesla, the Wright brothers… This clearly doesn’t scratch the surface of all the great minds throughout history, but what unites them all—outside of their genius—is their naysayers. People laughed at them. They doubted their ability. Yet look

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LEAP Inventor Challenge awards $175K to WashU Inventors

Five Washington University teams will be awarded up to $175,000 in the latest LEAP Inventor Challenge (LEAP) cycle. This concludes the academic year with a total $650,000 allocated to fifteen LEAP awardees. [See Fall 2016 and Summer 2016 awardees. Note:

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Meet our Spring 2017 LEAP Inventor Challenge Judges

Each LEAP Inventor Challenge cycle, we are blown away by the insight that our competition judges bring to the presenting teams. For the Spring 2017 cycle, twenty individuals hailing from the pharmaceutical industry to venture capital volunteered their time and expertise to

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