Utah Governor’s Office of Economic Development

This section collects information about the Technology Commercialization & Innovation Program as well as of the program's grant recipients.

TCIP News

• Utah Fund of Funds / GOED / Salt Lake SBDC Six-part Entrepreneur Training Series - How to Fund Raise Capital from Investors

  OED partnered with the Utah Fund of Funds and the Salt Lake SBDC to create a six part training series to help startups learn how to successfully raise capital from investors.  The series consists of 6 two hour webinars, for a total cost of $75, or for $25 for one webinar.  All presentation materials are available.  Start at http://utahfundoffunds.com/events.html to begin the series.

• COE Director Nicole Toomey Davis is one of the Presenters at the Utah Fund of Funds Entrepreneur How to Fund Raise Training Series.  http://ufoftraining.eventbrite.com/

The following articles contain information on the Technology Commercialization & Innovation Program and many of its participating Centers and related companies since January, 2002.

• Launch Magazine publishes article on new Technology Commercialization & Innovation Grant; contributed by COE Director Ncole Toomey Davis - June 2007.
  http://www.launchutah.com/article-funding-mayjune2007.php
  
  
• COE Director Nicole Toomey Davis was the guest presenter at the Utah fund of Funds monthly workshop on Wednesday, June 27, 2007 at the Karen G. Miller Conference Center. The workshop topic was "Designing the Perfect Investor - Not all Money is the Same".
  
  
• COE Director Nicole Toomey Davis moderated a panel which discussed the Utah Fund of Funds, at the Tech@Breakfast meeting which was held on Friday, April 20, 2007 at the Grand America Hotel . Panel members were:

Jeremy Neilson: Director, Utah Fund of Funds
Peter Jarman: Vice President, Fort Washington Capital (the Utah Fund of Funds’ investment advisor)
Mark Foley: Managing Director, RWI Ventures
Andrew Schwab: Managing Director, 5AM Ventures
Tim Hunt: CEO, Lingotek

• Cord blood stem cell banks! That's what the American Academy of Pediatrics says is needed now to help treat children afflicted with leukemia , and COE Pre-center candidate (assigned a Business Team), the Center for Cell Therapy at the University of Utah, is helping in this effort..............read more http://www.ksl.com/?nid=148&sid=774761
  
  
• TechniScan Medical Systems, a spinoff of the Center for Inverse Problems, Imaging & Tomography, receives a $2.8M NIH Grant for the development of a breast cancer screening tool - December 19, 2006

Forbes: http://www.forbes.com/businesswire/feeds/businesswire/2006/12/18/businesswire20061218005280r1.html

Salt Lake Tribune: http://www.sltrib.com/technology/ci_4864719

Deseret News: http://www.deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,650216120,00.html

Yahoo! Finance: http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/061218/20061218005280.html?.v=1

• COE Program called "A Bargain for Utahns" - November 6, 2006
  • Read the Salt Lake Tribune Article
    
    
• LouseBuster create media excitement all over the world - November 6, 2006
  • See the University of Utah Press Release
  • Click here to see a list of media references
    Larada Sciences, which will deliver the LouseBuster to market, is a spinout of the Center for Alternate Strategies for Parasite Removal (CASPER)
    
    
• Director of the Technology Commercialization & Innovation Program, Nicole Toomey Davis, presented at UTC's Emerging Executive Peer to Peer Forum, Oct 11, 2006, and talked candidly about the startup process, helping bring technologies out of Utah's universities and offered support and encouragement to this group of emerging entrepreneurs.
  • http://www.utahtechcouncil.org/events/101106.htm 
• Employees research desktop and hand-held devices that can quickly detect pathogens - 10/5/06
  • http://www.sltrib.com/ci_4449098
    
    
• Utah’s Statewide Nanotechnology Conference - October 5, 2006
  • Nanotechnology Conference
    
    
• Interview with COE Director on KCPW Radio - August 28, 2006
  • KCPW - The Bottomline: Centers of Excellence
    
    
• 16 Centers to received Funding - June 20, 2006
  • http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,640188237,00.html
    
    
• Connect Magazine profiles Nicole Toomey Davis, Director of the Centers of Excellence Program. - May 2006
  • http://www.connect-utah.com/article.asp?r=1753&iid=44&sid
    
    
• vSpring Capital releases its list of the 2006 Top 100 Venture Entrepreneurs - Includes Nicole Toomey Davis, COE Director, for third consecutive Year -  May 3, 2006
  • http://www.vspring.com/press/2006-05-03-v100.htm 
• COE Director, Nicole Toomey Davis joins panel to discuss Economic Development - 4/27/06
  • http://www.wasatchdigitaliq.com/parser.php?nav=article&article_id=1028 
• Center for Titanium Boride Technology Receives Mathewson Award - March, 2006
  • Mathewson Award - Chandran
    
    
• Utah Business Magazine honores COE Director as one of its annual "40 under 40" - February 2006.
  • http://www.utahbusiness.com/parser.php?nav=article&article_id=4091 
• New TechniScan Medical Systems Survey Results Challenge Conventional View of Women's Attitudes about Breast Cancer Screening
  (The Healthcare Sales and Marketing Network 2/16/06)
• The Business Ignitor Series sponsored by Grow Utah Ventures, Parsons Behle & Latimer and Connect Magazine. Tuesday, January 24th, 3:30-5:00pm at The Devereaux, 340 W. South Temple. Q&A with Nicole Toomey Davis, President and CEO of Enclavix and Director for the Centers of Excellence Program - 1/24/06
  • http://www.connect-utah.com/search_results.asp?search_type=1&search_term=business+ignitor+series&x=0&y=0 
• 17 research projects notch state funding
  (Deseret News, 6/21/05)
• BYU Centers Technology spins out state of the art bike: - March, 2005
  • String thing
    http://www.et.byu.edu/news_isobike.htm
    Brigham Young University
    
    
• Press for CASPeR (LouseBusters) KSL News Coverage   Video Clip of LouseBuster™ on KSL News (long version 29.7 MG)
  Video Clip of LouseBuster™ on KSL News (short version 3.9 MG)
• Daily Chronicle Article: U Professor Develops Product To Fight Lice (June 2005) University of Utah Press Release: U To Tout Technology Investors (June 2005)
  Deseret News:  U. Scientists Create LouseBuster™ (October 2004)
  
  
• Echecelon Biosciences acquired by Æterna Zentaris
  (Press Release January 6, 2005)
• Creating a New Image
  (The Herald Journal, 02/05/04) (PDF Format)
  
  
• Engineering Team Looks to Eliminate Phone Echoes
  (Utah Statesman, 11/24/03) (PDF Format) 
  
  
• Utah encourages and funds Tech Transfer for sustainable Economic Development
  (Salt Lake Tribune, May 2003)
  
• USU Devices Help Detect Lurking Germs - Quickly
  (Deseret News, 11/11/02)
  (USU Center for Microbe Detection & Physiology)  
  
  
• Utahn 'Top 50' Scientist
  (Deseret News, 11/11/02)
  (Myriad Genetics - spin-off from U of U Center for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology) 
  
• Echelon Gets a 2-Year Grant to Expand Cancer Research
  (Deseret News, 11/05/02)
  (Echelon Biosciences Inc. - spin-off from U of U Center for Cell Signaling)  
  
  
• Myriad Genetics Finds Gene Linked to Obesity
  (Deseret News, 10/29/02)
  (Myriad Genetics - spin-off from U of U Center for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology)  
  
  
• Myriad Genetics Forms Tie with Australian Company
  (Deseret News, 10/28/02)
  (Myriad Genetics - spin-off from U of U Center for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology)
  
  
• Moran Eye Center Expands Focus
  (Deseret News, 10/24/02)  
• Sonic Innovations Profits from Increase in Sales
  (Deseret News, 10/23/02)
  (Sonic Innovations Inc. - spin-off from BYU Center for Signal Processing)
   
• Sonic Innovations Hearing Aid Products Proven Effective in New Clinical Study
  (Sonic Innovations Press Release, 09/16/02)
  (Sonic Innovations Inc. - spin-off from BYU Center for Signal Processing)
   
• Myriad Genetics Launching Consumer Ad Campaign
  (Deseret News, 09/16/02)
  (Myriad Genetics - spin-off from U of U Center for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology)  
  
  
• Echelon Named 2002 National Tibbett's Award Winner
  (Echelon Biosciences Inc., 09/10/02) (pdf format)
  (Echelon Biosciences Inc. - spin-off from U of U Center for Cell Signaling)
   
• 3 Utah Companies Receive DOE Grants
  (Deseret News, 09/04/02)
  (Ceramatec Inc - U of U Center for Advanced Materials; Materials and Systems Research - U of U Center for Solid Oxide Fuel Cells; Pyramatrix - BYU Center for Advanced Structural Composites)  
  
  
• Myriad Unveils Promising New Drug
  (Deseret News, 08/22/02)
  (Myriad Genetics - spin-off from U of U Center for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology)
   
• Utah Firms Going for the Gold
  (Deseret News, 08/09/02)
  (Echelon Biosciences Inc., spin-off from U of U Center for Cell Signaling)  
  
  
• BYU Invention Nets a Grant
  (Salt Lake Tribune, 06/19/02)
  (BYU Center for Advanced Structural Composites)  
  
  
• Carbon Composite May Find Use in Buildings, Windmills and Space
  (Salt Lake Tribune, 06/10/02)
  (BYU Center for Advanced Structural Composites)
   
• Myriad Genetics to Reach Out to Women
  (Deseret News, 06/06/02)
  (Myriad Genetics - spin-off from U of U Center for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology)  
  
  
• Myriad to Market Genetic Testing
  (Salt Lake Tribune, 06/06/02)
  (Myriad Genetics - spin-off from U of U Center for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology)  
  
  
• NEW CENTER OF EXCELLENCE ESTABLISHED AT UTAH STATE
  (The Utah Statesman 06/03/02)
  
  
• BYU Truss Stronger than Steel
  (Deseret News, 05/30/02)
  (BYU Center for Advanced Structural Composites)  
  
  
• Myriad Genetics Launches Cancer Predictive Product
  (Deseret News, 05/16/02)
  (Myriad Genetics - spin-off from U of U Center for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology)  
  
  
• Utah Business & Economic Development Division Names New Centers of Excellence Recipients
  (DCED News Release, 04/23/02) 
  
  
• Utah Research Aimed at Improving Chemotherapy
  (Salt Lake Tribune, 04/18/02)
  (U of U Center for Cell Signaling)  
  
  
• Utah Researchers Find Location of Obesity Gene
  (KSL.com, 04/18/02)
  (Myriad Genetics - spin-off from U of U Center for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology)
   
• New Drugs Target & Destroy Cancer Cells
  (KSL.com, 04/08/02)
  (U of U Center for Cell Signaling)  
  
  
• Cancer Study Targets Women
  (Deseret News, 03/16/02)
  (Myriad Genetics - spin-off from U of U Center for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology)  
  
  
• Myriad, Abbott Labs Form a Collaboration
  (Deseret News, 03/12/02)
  (Myriad Genetics - spin-off from U of U Center for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology)  
  
  
• BYU Students Create Virtual Olympics
  (Deseret News, 02/19/02)
  (BYU Center for Intelligent Computer Tools)  
  
  
• CROMDI: Enabling Effective Decisions
  (Wasatch Digital iQ - 02/01/02) (pdf format)
  (U of U Center for Representation of Multi-Dimensional Information)  
  
  
• Utah's Computer Graphics Industry: An Ecosystem Three Decades in the Making
  (Wasatch Digital iQ - 02/01/02) (pdf format)
  (U of U Center for Scientific Computing & Imaging and U of U Center for Computer Graphics & Scientific Visualization)
  
  
• Myriad Genetics: Executing the Vision of Molecular Medicine
  (Wasatch Digital iQ - 01/01/02) (pdf format)
  (Myriad Genetics - spin-off from U of U Center for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology)

COE Events

• 5 Centers of Excellence grant recipients showcased their technology at the 2009 Investors Choice Conference on February 5th,2009.
• Centers of Excellence grant recipients showcased their technology at the 2008 and 2007 Investors Choice Conferences. 
• COE Showcase at the Utah Manufacturers Association Banquet -Little America Hotel - November 4, 2006
  Over 200 Utah manufacturers browsed the 21 Centers of Excellence technology displays that were on display at the Utah Manufacturer's Association Banquet on November 4, 2006.
• COE Technology Showcase - Miller Center - May 10, 2005
  The Centers of Excellence Program organized and showcased over 30 cutting edge technologies being developed at Utah's universities to more than 100 CEO's & other top executives, entrepreneurs and investors.
  • Click here to view presentations