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CoMotion is a signatory to these COVID-19 licensing guidelines to enable rapid access to university innovations addressing the current pandemic. The guidelines are endorsed by the AUTM Board of Directors and consistent with the association’s long-standing support for humanitarian licensing.

• Fundamentals For Startups video: “Negotiating Startup Life through a Crisis” (full video with CoMotion’s Ken Myer moderating discussion with entrepreneur Xiao Wang and investor Dan Rosen)
• “Leading a startup through the crisis” podcast on GeekWire – CoMotion’s Ken Myer moderates discussion with entrepreneur Xiao Wang and investor Dan Rosen
• Webinar video: “What startups need to know about the Paycheck Protection Program“, presented by Michael Avent and Ben Straughan, partners at Perkins Coie law firm (https://www.perkinscoie.com).
• Read tips on working remotely  from CoMotion Labs startups
• Also, you can find this list of COVID-19 resources for small businesses and nonprofits created by the Entrepreneurial Law Clinic at the UW School of Law.
• The National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB) is urgently soliciting proposals and can provide up to $500M across multiple projects to rapidly produce innovative SARS-CoV-2 diagnostic tests that will assist the public’s safe return to normal activities. See this website for more information.

• Read this message from CoMotion Director and Vice Provost for Innovation, François Baneyx – “UW innovation accelerates in the face of adversity”
• CoMotion announces new Director’s Award for UW innovations that address a pressing societal need – inaugural award goes to team of UW researchers assessing the persistence of potentially infectious aerosols in medical facilities
• Read about Dr. Deborah Fuller and team racing toward a COVID-19 vaccine
• UW News covers UW researchers who need your digital coughs; Go directly to the Ubicomplab cough collection study to participate
• UW Urology’s Dr. Tom Lendvay leads COVID-19 research with Amazon grant
• Read about TransformativeMed’s Core COVID-19 tracking tool and app in the Puget Sound Business Journal (subscription required) or see the dedicated page about the app on the TransformativeMed website
• Read about UW researchers working with CoMotion to accelerate their innovations addressing COVID-19
• GeekWire covers mental health tech UW spinoff Lyssn and the launching of its telehealth platform, week of May 18, 2020
• VR Ulysses launch beta version of their VR data visualization software with COVID-19 data from John Hopkins Center for Systems Science and Engineering, and the  COVID Tracking Project. See image below
• A-Alpha Bio receives $800K from the Gates Foundation for COVID-19 treatment research. Read more in GeekWire
• Membrion say it’s spray treatment could make cloth masks more effective against COVID-19. Read more in The Seattle Times.
• Icosavax turns VLP Tech to COVID-19 Vaccine, with $16.5 Million in new financing. Read more on the BioSpace website.