Entrepreneurial Training
The ASCEND Hub provides resources, advising, and mentoring to aid in the translation of promising innovations from academia to the market.
The Ascend hub difference
Mentoring
Mentors can help first-time entrepreneurs navigate the complex commercialization process and ASCEND can help you find a good match.
Technology Development
Funding for biomedical technologies for preclinical development can be difficult to identify and difficult to obtain, but ASCEND will help you navigate this process.
LATEST NEWS
ASCEND Hub Announces Call for Proposals for the ASCEND Innovation Awards
The ASCEND Accelerator Hub, ASCEND, is currently seeking proposals to support the advancement of new biomedical innovations with significant potential to improve quality of life and save lives. The successful proposal will place emphasis on biomedical innovations that have a straightforward and rapid path to commercialization.
ASCEND Hub Pitch Competition Set for June 26
ASCEND Hub will hold its inaugural Biomedical Pitch competition on June 26 at the Virtici offices in Seattle, Wash. The external Advisory Committee will judge the pitches and provide feedback to the entrepreneurs.
Virtici, LLC Receives $3.5 Accelerator Hub Award from the National Institutes of Health
Virtici, LLC announced today that it has received a three-year, $3.5 million award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to support an Institutional Development Award (IDeA) Center of Biomedical Research Excellence. Virtici has been selected to create and operate a Regional Technology Transfer Accelerator Hub in the Western region…
Take your technology to market
Business advising for ASCEND innovators and their technologies is available to researchers at all of the ASCEND partner institutions. Advising will include a technology review, assignment of a technology readiness level, suggested next steps, and ASCEND resources that can help move the technology forward.
testimonials
The grant will help accelerate and expand educational programs in translational medicine and career development in health care and pharmaceutical industries across Montana and the Mountain West Region.
Jay Evans, PhD ASECND Academic Lead
University of Montana
This is a significant opportunity for small businesses, academia, and the federal government to partner in two critical areas: boosting high-tech innovation and tackling biomedical research needs.
Jon R. Lorsch, Ph.D. NIGMS Director
The goal is to educate faculty within the various institutions on how to commercialize their research, including startup funding and finding business partners.
Eric Prossnitz, PhD UNM’s principal investigator
It is exciting to be selected by the NIH to lead this important initiative in the Western region. We look forward to working on this with University of New Mexico and other research institutions in the Western region.
Neil Fanger, PhDCEO of Virtici and Prinicipal Investigator for ASCEND