$1M
seed fund to assist UW School of Medicine and Public Health
Special to The Freeman
June 25, 2014
MADISON –
The Wisconsin Economic Development Corp. and the
Wisconsin Technology Innovation Initiative have
established a $1 million seed fund, which will support
commercialization of medical technology developed by the
University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public
Health.
While the fund will be used by UW-Madison researchers in
several fields of medicine, one of the first projects to
be backed by the program is the commercialization of
Alzheimer’s disease markers and treatments, which have
been developed by the School of Medicine’s Wisconsin
Alzheimer’s Institute, the statement said.
The new seed fund will help enable the Alzheimer’s
Institute to find commercial opportunities for its
research, according to the statement.
WEDC is working with the Wisconsin Technology Innovation
Initiative, the UW system, business leaders and others
throughout the state to remove the barriers to high-tech
commercialization through its new Start-Seed-Scale
initiative.
