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  • June 11, 2020

    Ten UW startups present to potential investors at Spring CoMotion DubPitch

    Although the University of Washington and King County were in Phase 1 of Washington State’s Safe Start plan, over 60 local investors gathered on June 2nd...
  • June 08, 2020

    CoMotion announces new Director’s Award for UW innovations that address a pressing societal need

    When James Hecker, an anesthesiologist at Harborview Medical Center, intubates a COVID-19-positive patient, he can’t help but wonder how many virus particles will be aerosolized and...
  • May 18, 2020

    Meet a CoMotion Labs Member: Edus Health

    Our mission is to make pediatric healthcare more accessible. Earaches are miserable for everyone involved, and consequently pediatric ear infections and related conditions are among the...
  • May 15, 2020

    Changes at CoMotion Labs in Spokane

    CoMotion Labs, a multi-industry incubator program of CoMotion at the University of Washington, expanded its presence into Spokane three years ago with a pilot program whose...
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  • May 04, 2020

    UW HCDE Corporate Affiliates Program offered to CoMotion Labs members at a discount

    The Human Centered Design & Engineering (HCDE) Corporate Affiliates Program (CAP) offers companies and organizations a way to foster long-term relationships with HCDE students that lead...
  • April 30, 2020

    What Startups Need to Know about the Paycheck Protection Program

    Thank you to Perkins Coie for presenting this webinar, originally streamed April 28, 2020, which provides information on what startups need to know about the Paycheck...
  • April 28, 2020

    UW Researchers Working with CoMotion to Accelerate their Innovations Addressing COVID-19

    There is extraordinary work happening across the UW community in the fight against COVID-19. The pandemic has brought into sharp focus how important UW research is...
  • April 22, 2020

    New CoMotion Blog Series: UW Innovators Battling Climate Change

    In honor of the 50th anniversary of Earth Day, we are launching a new blog series that highlights UW spinoffs and technologies whose innovations contribute to...
  • April 22, 2020

    News and resources for COVID-19

    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...
  • April 22, 2020

    UW Researcher Spotlight: Professor Nora Disis

    Welcome to our blog series, “UW Researcher Spotlight.” These posts highlight University of Washington researchers who, as principal investigator—or “PI”—lead their teams on the path from...
  • April 10, 2020

    Tips from Startups to Optimize Working Remotely

    The University of Washington campus has been on restricted operations since mid-March and CoMotion Labs followed shortly after on March 25th. Despite not being able to...
  • April 03, 2020

    CoMotion Labs Fundamentals for Startups Friday - Spring

    Our Fundamentals for Startups Friday speaker series is free and open to the public and covers topics ranging from getting into an accelerator to how to...
  • March 27, 2020

    UW innovation accelerates in face of adversity

    The expression “we live through unprecedented times” felt somewhat corny a few weeks ago. It now seems eerily adept at capturing the disruption we are all...
  • March 27, 2020

    University of Washington healthcare IT and tech spinoffs drive medical innovations to improve health outcomes

    The University of Washington has spun out many successful startups in biotech and health IT. From C-SATS, the ongoing surgical skill development platform acquired by Johnson...
  • March 20, 2020

    UW's Dr. Deborah Fuller and team racing toward a COVID-19 vaccine

    Dr. Deborah Fuller, a vaccinologist and professor of microbiology at the University of Washington, and her team are working on a way to develop and deliver...
  • March 03, 2020

    Meet a CoMotion Labs Member: Medcurity

    Medcurity helps healthcare organization protect their patients’ information. We provide a cloud-based platform for managing HIPAA security and privacy requirements.
  • February 20, 2020

    UW Researcher Spotlight: Assistant Professor Matthew Tolentino

    Welcome to our blog series, “UW Researcher Spotlight.” These posts highlight University of Washington researchers who, as principal investigator—or “PI”—lead their teams on the path from...
  • February 19, 2020

    CoMotion Mary Gates Innovation Scholars Program: Summer 2019 and looking ahead

    Each summer, the CoMotion Mary Gates Innovation Scholars program funds full-time summer internships in faculty-led commercialization initiatives. The 2019 program featured ten motivated undergrad students who...
  • February 19, 2020

    WE-REACH: Fostering a growing community of biomedical innovators

    The University of Washington has created a new integrated center –Washington Entrepreneurial Research Evaluation and Commercialization Hub (WE-REACH) to match biomedical discoveries with the resources needed...
  • February 19, 2020

    Meet a CoMotion Labs Member: Chimerocyte

    At Chimerocyte, we develop molecular technologies to detect and quantify allogeneic cells and/or DNA at levels of sensitivity and specificity that are not reached by currently...