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CoMotion Entrepreneurial Faculty Forum

In over 150 years of history, the UW has demonstrated an extraordinary track record of inventions and discoveries that have saved and improved lives across the globe. Much of this impact has been driven by the vision and tenacity of entrepreneurial faculty, and their commitment to translating game-changing research from the laboratory to the marketplace in service of the greater good. In licensing inventions, scaling discoveries, and launching startups, these entrepreneurial faculty have acquired a wealth of knowledge and experience that makes them uniquely suited to advise and support colleagues who consider embarking on the innovation journey. The CoMotion Entrepreneurial Faculty Forum aims to tap this expertise to further grow UW’s impact as a public university.

Consult with a member of the Entrepreneurial Faculty Forum

Are you a UW faculty, postdoc, or senior graduate student who is interested in starting a company or commercializing your research? If so, an Entrepreneurial Faculty Forum member may be available for a consultation. Please click the link below to initiate a consultation request.

Check out our Startup Handbook, the Startup Licensing Handbook (a companion to the Husky FAST Start licensing process), the UW Innovation Imperative websiteCoMotion Labs, our startup incubation arm, as well as a list of additional commercialization resources at UW and beyond.

Meet the inaugural class

Samuel Browd, M.D.

Professor, Neurological Surgery and Attending Neurosurgeon at Seattle Children's Hospital; Adjunct Professor of Bioengineering

Sectors: Neurocare, AI, machine learning, robotics, immersive medicine

Luis Ceze

Lazowska Professor, Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering

Sectors: Enterprise software systems, AI, machine learning, computing & biology

Daniel T. Chiu

A. Bruce Montgomery Professor of Chemistry; Endowed Professor of Analytical Chemistry, WRF Professor; Professor of Bioengineering

Sectors: Life science, diagnostics, liquid biopsy, digital assays

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Valerie Daggett

David and Nancy Auth Endowed Professor of Bioengineering

Sectors: Amyloid diseases, Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease, amyloid-beta, toxic oligomers, alpha-sheet, biomarkers, early detection

Nora Disis, M.D.

Helen B. Slonaker Endowed Professor for Cancer Research; Professor of Medicine and Adjunct Professor of Laboratory Medicine and Obstetrics and Gynecology; Member of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center; Director of UW Medicine’s Cancer Vaccine Institute

Sectors: Off-the-shelf, T-cell vaccine, therapeutic vaccine, multi-antigen vaccine, neo-antigens, neo-repertoire, immuno-oncology, immunotherapy

Neil King

Neil King

Associate Professor of Biochemistry, Institute for Protein Design

Sectors: Functional protein nanomaterials, structure-based vaccine design, targeted delivery of biologics

Julian Sachs

Professor of Oceanography

Sectors: Climate tech, carbon management, carbon dioxide removal

Ankur Teredesai

Professor, UW Tacoma School of Engineering & Technology

Sectors: AI-powered personalization, healthcare AI solutions, predictive healthcare, machine learning in medicine, AI-driven wellness, health data analytics, ML in healthcare