March 14, 2024

Two University of Cincinnati students gave themselves just 30 minutes to come up with an idea for a startup business. Not only did they succeed, their idea has won multiple pitch competitions in the past year. Joe Kuncheria Panjikaran and Aniruddhan Ramesh are the founders of PhizzIO (pronounced “fizz-e-oh”), a startup that’s creating a business-to-business solution to improve physical therapy.

March 15, 2024

How can nurses address hurdles such as lack of time, funding, continuing education and institutional support to focus on innovation? To answer these and other questions, the UC College of Nursing will host its inaugural Joan and Mark Hurray Visiting Professor Lectureship Series on Nurse-Driven Innovation.

June 10, 2024

As a first-generation student from Dubai, Jonathan Raj’s international background has been instrumental in shaping his expertise in intercultural communication and cross-disciplinary collaboration through the University of Cincinnati's NEXT Innovation Scholars program.

May 21, 2021

The University of Cincinnati Venture Lab celebrates 50+ startups in just two years. The milestone is testament to the thinkers, researchers, students and industry who are converging in the Cincinnati Innovation District to develop the next great ideas to solve real-world challenges — and 50 startups is just the beginning.

July 28, 2021

Yoonjee Park, assistant professor of chemical engineering at University of Cincinnati's College of Engineering and Applied Science, developed a biodegradable drug delivery device that is activated by light, which would allow for on-demand dosing and fewer side effects for treatment of posterior eye diseases. With recent funding awards from the National Institute of Health and a Young Investigator Award from Ohio Lions Eye Research Foundation, Park and her research team are testing the safety and efficacy of the device. In 2019, she also participated in UC’s Venture Lab business pre-accelerator.

January 25, 2021

Donglu Shi, University of Cincinnati materials engineering professor, is developing a dry disinfection process for COVID-19 using cold plasma, which could offer a safer and simpler method of sanitizing.

January 5, 2021

Peel9, a Cincinnati Business Courier 2020 Innovation-Technology award winner, is a 1819 Innovation Hub-supported records management and analytics company that serves the law enforcement community. Cincinnati Future had the opportunity to speak with CEO and co-founder Todd Levy about the company's origins and the tech behind it.

May 5, 2020

June 29, 2020

Students such as recent grad Abby McInturf can turn an idea into a startup by starting with UC's Venture Lab. Learn more.

February 1, 2021

Leyla Esfandiari, University of Cincinnati assistant professor of electrical engineering and biomedical engineering, has created a lab-on-a-chip device for noninvasive, point-of-care cancer screening and early diagnosis using a small amount of a patient’s body fluid, such as saliva or blood.