The First In Venture Studio is a partnership between UNC-Chapel Hill, the Eshelman Institute for Innovation, UNC Health and industry partner High Alpha Innovation, a leading venture builder headquartered in Indianapolis that partners with large corporations and universities. The studio – which aims to launch … Read more
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, through the Eshelman Institute for Innovation, announced a collaboration with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to build an environment for startup creation that uses cloud technology to translate UNC-Chapel Hill digital health research expertise … Read more
Carolina leaders from the Eshelman Institute for Innovation, UNC Health, UNC Research and Innovate Carolina pilot a partnership with High Alpha Innovation – aiming to create digital health startups better positioned for success. Gaining traction over the past few years, … Read more
The Eshelman Institute Rankin Innovator Acceleration Award, supported by Lawson and Gisele Rankin, is given annually to provide students and Post Docs with funding to pursue entrepreneurial training opportunities. The 2022 recipients of this award are Brianna Vickerman, Ph.D., and … Read more
READDI, the Rapidly Emerging Antiviral Drug Development Initiative, has just received a big boost in accomplishing its mission of putting five antiviral drugs “on the shelf” ahead of future pandemics. The National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced Wednesday that READDI … Read more
On May 10-12, 2022, the Eshelman Institute will be hosting Amazon AWS for a three-day immersion training. The training will focus on Amazon AWS’s data science toolsets and give participants an understanding of Amazon Cloud, SageMaker, AI services, and more. … Read more
In early 2020, the Eshelman Institute for Innovation helped launch the Rapidly Emerging Antiviral Drug Development Initiative (READDI). Since then, READDI has been collaborating with partners across the globe to bring broad-spectrum antiviral drugs through Phase 1 testing to be … Read more
The Eshelman Institute for Innovation is pleased to announce the recipients of their 2021 grant cycle! A total of $2.1 million has been granted to the below seven projects. Since 2015, the Eshelman Institute has brought value to the University … Read more
In 2012, a revolutionary new way to edit genes was unveiled to the world – CRISPR. Since then, the technology has been named as a “Breakthrough of the Year” by Science and has expanded to be applied to targeted epigenome … Read more
As part of the annual Eshelman Institute for Innovation (EII) student and postdoctoral grant process, the EII Rankin Innovator Acceleration Award is given annually to the student(s) with the highest rated, commercially focused proposal. The 2021 recipients of this award are … Read more
