University of Washington

About Us

CoMotion Mission

Our Mission to create an Innovation hub

CoMotion® is UW’s collaborative innovation hub dedicated to expanding the economic and societal impact of the UW community and beyond. By developing and connecting to local and global innovation ecosystems, CoMotion guides and partners with faculty, researchers, students, and entrepreneurs on their path to market, and helps them amplify the impact of their ideas.

'Co Motion' (noun):

1. proceeding together at a faster speed,

2. jets of creativity.

Vikram

Vikram Jandhyala
UW Vice President for Innovation Strategy
and Executive Director of UW CoMotion

Our Four Focus Areas

Supporting innovators at any stage

IP ADVISING, PROTECTION & LICENSING

We guide UW researchers, faculty and students on their path to potential license, startup, or service.

INNOVATION TRAINING

 

We deliver just-in-time learning opportunities around all types of innovation.

FUNDING & PARTNERSHIPS

We provide mentorship, funding, and networks to improve commercialization success.

STARTUPS & INCUBATION

We support startup creation, launch, and incubation.

Jeanette Ennis

Associate Director of Innovation Investment

Jeanette Ennis supports UW researchers pursuing grant money to commercialize their innovations, and helps CoMotion secure economic development grant opportunities. Ennis joined CoMotion in 2009 after more than 15 years of broad research experience as a scientist, entrepreneur, and manager. Her areas of expertise include pharmacology, biochemistry, molecular biology, tissue engineering, and medical devices. She has worked with a variety of start-up companies as project manager, grant writer, and intellectual property manager, and held senior research positions at Cornell University and the UW Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery. She earned a doctorate in medical and molecular pharmacology from the University of California, Los Angeles, where she trained with Louis Ignarro, Nobel Laureate in Physiology. She also holds a certificate in technical writing and editing from the UW Department of Human Centered Design & Engineering.