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  • February 24, 2025

    Changemaker: Weichao Yuwen

    Nursing professor is leveraging AI technology and healthcare knowledge to support caregivers.
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  • January 15, 2025

    A collaborative home for climate tech in downtown Seattle

    Mayor Bruce Harrell launches the Seattle Climate Innovation Hub to boost the green economy and revitalize the area.
    Logo with the text "Seattle Climate Innovation Hub" and graphic of silhouette of Space Needle against water and a setting sun.
  • December 17, 2024

    NSF Innovation Corps: The class of Fall 2024

    Researchers and entrepreneurs take their first steps toward the marketplace through CoMotion’s signature innovation training program.
    Square image with the text "NSF I-Corps, powered by CoMotion" and six headshots of people quoted in the story.
  • November 19, 2024

    Plug and Play announces expansion into Seattle

    Silicon Valley innovation group launches new accelerator program at CoMotion Labs.
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  • October 31, 2024

    UW NSF I-Corps Site Program Awardees & Participants - 2024

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  • October 30, 2024

    UW one of eight universities to receive an NSF I-Corps Hub grant

    New funding will establish a Northwest Region Hub for innovation training.
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  • October 16, 2024

    Tapping the hearts and minds of faculty entrepreneurs

    CoMotion’s new Entrepreneurial Faculty Forum will mentor UW faculty seeking to translate discoveries and maximize impact.
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  • October 14, 2024

    Oncologist Nora Disis honored as UW School of Medicine’s Inventor of the Year for work developing cancer vaccines

    Preeclampsia detection project headlines CoMotion Innovator Showcase.
  • October 09, 2024

    Q&A: Start Something with Oren Etzioni

    Tech journalist Katherine Long interviewed computer scientist Oren Etzioni about the nonprofit he founded to detect political deepfakes.
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  • August 28, 2024

    ICYMI: CoMotion Labs Summer Social

    Annual gathering brings together Labs colleagues and members from the tech, life sciences, and hardware incubators.
    CoMotion event staff Hannah Wong and Claire Inslee
  • August 21, 2024

    Spinoff News Roundup: August 2024

    CoMotion supported the launches of 12 spinoffs in FY24, all technology through UW on their path from lab to market.
  • July 16, 2024

    Q&A: Cathy Madden

    UW drama professor Cathy Madden, who led an event at Startup Hall, talks to CoMotion about how acting/improv skills can improve entrepreneurs’ pitches.
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  • June 17, 2024

    CoMotion celebrates staff innovation

    Third annual CoMotion Innovates celebration recognizes teammates who have made innovative contributions to the office’s work.
    CoMotion staff honorees pose with certificates at the CoMotion Innovates celebration.
  • June 13, 2024

    Changemaker: Eric Szelenyi

    Postdoctoral entrepreneur leverages CoMotion resources to advance tools for the development of psychiatric drugs.
    Headshot of UW postdoctoral entrepreneur Eric Szelenyi.
  • June 11, 2024

    CoMotion open house kicks off Innovation Month

    On May 1, CoMotion welcomed 140 people to its new offices for an open house, officially kicking off UW’s first-ever Innovation Month.
    Vice Provost for Innovation François Baneyx addresses CoMotion open house on May 1.
  • May 01, 2024

    Imagine new heights during UW Innovation Month

    UW's first-ever Innovation Month is a campus-wide celebration of the innovation that happens everywhere at UW, every day, from STEM to the humanities and beyond.
    UW Innovation Month Logo featuring a purple rendering of Mt. Rainier against a pink background, with the words "May 2024, Innovation Month, Imagine New Heights"
  • March 19, 2024

    Curiosity, resilience, and the greater good

    We're celebrating disclosures of UW innovations, a new partnership with Montana State University, and our recently launched spinoffs.
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  • March 07, 2024

    A stone’s throw from recovery

    A mother-daughter team of physicists is advancing therapeutic ultrasound to break up tissue like kidney stones and tumors.
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  • February 21, 2024

    Spinoff News Roundup: February 2024

    Since July 1, the beginning of the University of Washington’s fiscal year, CoMotion has supported the launch of several startups, each spinning out of or licensing...
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  • February 20, 2024

    The Spark of Intention

    Three academic entrepreneurs share how personal experiences and perspectives guide their work to build better businesses and a better world.
    Collage of portraits of Nuttada Panpradist, Alicia Beckford Wassink, and Varadaraya Shenoy.