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Eshelman Institute for Innovation Announces 2023 Rankin Innovator Acceleration Award Recipients

The Eshelman Institute Rankin Innovator Acceleration Award, supported by Lawson and Gisele Rankin, is given annually to provide graduate students and Post Docs with funding to pursue entrepreneurial training opportunities.  Breanna Mann (left) and Ashlyn Elliott (right) Each recipient will … Continued

Eshelman Institute Selects Novel Pain Therapeutics Grant Recipients

The Eshelman Institute for Innovation is proud to announce the recipients of our Novel Pain Therapeutics grant cycle! The Eshelman Institute partnered with the North Carolina Collaboratory to solicit projects from academic researchers across North Carolina for funding research and … Continued

Eshelman Institute for Innovation’s Power Up Nutrition and Mental Health Pitch Competition Hosted at NC A&T

Empowering Local Communities Through Design Thinking: A Recap of Eshelman Institute for Innovation’s Nutrition and Mental Health Pitch Competition hosted at NC A&T In today’s fast-paced and ever-changing world, design thinking has emerged as a powerful venture building tool to … Continued

Eshelman Institute Pursues Digital Health Solutions for Black N.C. Community

A $750,000 grant will help UNC’s Eshelman Institute for Innovation create PowerUp — an initiative to address food insecurity and mental health challenges faced by Black North Carolinians. The Institute, alongside the Historically Black Colleges and Universities Founders Initiative (HBCUFI) — a … Continued

First In Venture Studio Holds Pitch Day Aimed at the Opioid Crisis

An eight-month collaboration to bring digital health solutions to market reaches a milestone with Pitch Day Rob Kimball, a Director with High Alpha Innovation, sums up what the company does in one sentence: “We co-create advantaged startups that solve compelling … Continued

Eshelman Institute Partners with the HBCU Founders Initiative to Serve Underrepresented Populations

The Eshelman Institute for Innovation, within the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy, is partnering with the Historically Black Colleges and Universities Founders Initiative (HBCUFI) to create PowerUp, a program that will identify and support innovators as they try to solve … Continued

First In Venture Studio Tackles State’s Opioid Crisis

The Eshelman Institute for Innovation, within the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy, launched the First in Venture Studio (FVS) to partner with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in exploring how digital health innovation can improve health care. … Continued

Institute Grant Recipient Included in Forbes 30 Under 30: Science List

Three-time EII grant recipient, Katelyn Arnold was recently included in the Forbes 30 Under 30 Science List for 2023! Katelyn Arnold is a research assistant professor in the Division of Chemical Biology and Medicinal Chemistry at the UNC Eshelman School … Continued

Inside the Sprint: How the Eshelman Institute Builds Digital Health Startups in a Blink

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 … Continued

Eshelman Institute for Innovation Spearheads UNC-CH and AWS Collaboration

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 … Continued

Successful Startup Studio Pilot for UNC Digital Health Ideas

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, … Continued

Eshelman Institute for Innovation Announces 2022 Rankin Innovator Acceleration Award Recipients

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 … Continued

READDI Receives NIAID AViDD Grant

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 … Continued

Eshelman Institute Partners with Amazon AWS for 3 Day Immersion Course in May

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. … Continued

READDI, in Collaboration with Chimerix, Announces Presentation at International Conference on Antiviral Research

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 … Continued

Eshelman Institute for Innovation announces recipients of 2021 grant cycle, will expand grant opportunities to all UNC faculty, staff

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 … Continued

Eshelman Institute for Innovation Helps Launch UNC CRISPR Screening Facility

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 … Continued

Innovators at the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy: Sam Lai

The UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy highlights the bold work of researchers who have received funding from the Eshelman Institute for Innovation (EII). The Eshelman Institute for Innovation is made possible by a $100 million gift from Fred Eshelman to … Continued

Eshelman Institute for Innovation announces 2021 Rankin Innovator Acceleration Award recipients

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 … Continued

Innovators at the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy: Casey Tak

The UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy highlights the bold work of researchers who have received funding from the Eshelman Institute for Innovation (EII). The Eshelman Institute for Innovation is made possible by a $100 million gift from Fred Eshelman to … Continued