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Start-up Companies

	Equinosis At Equinosis® the mission is to assist and equip the equine practitioner by developing and providing wireless sensor solutions for collection of biological data useful in the diagnosis of equine disease.
	Nanoparticle Biochem, Inc. Nanoparticle Biochem, Inc. is a privately held research and development company with an array of nanoparticle-based products for medical, health, hygiene and allied industries, and researchers. NBI is actively pursuing marketing of its products either directly or through licensing agreements with corporate partnerships.
	EternoGen, LLC EternoGen is a medical Bio-Tech company with a focus on designing and manufacturing a novel collagen scaffold for soft tissue therapeutic applications. The vision of the company is to provide superior collagen-based products for a variety of minimally invasive surgical applications by leveraging its expertise in applied nanotechnology and soft tissue engineering. EternoGen is primarily a research and development company that utilizes expertise in clinical market evaluation, material science, and biological engineering to execute its clinical development model.
	St. Louis Medical Devices, Inc. St. Louis Medical Devices, Inc., headquartered at UMSL’s business incubator, IT Enterprises, is working to bring a portable, noninvasive blood glucose monitor to market. The small monitor tests blood characteristics by shining near-infrared light through the finger, thus eliminating the need for waste such as lancets and test strips. This technology, developed at the university, could overcome many obstacles in the diabetes industry. Contact President and CEO George Chen for more information: slmdinc.info@gmail.com
	Organovo Organovo is focused on delivering breakthrough three-dimensional biology capabilities to create tissue on demand for research and surgical applications. As the first company with a three-dimensional tissue technology that works across tissue types, it is meeting the promise of regenerative medicine to fill unmet medical needs.
	Earth Perspectives Earth Perspectives has developed web-based services to greatly improve the exploitation of high-resolution satellite and airborne imagery collected from both commercial and government-owned systems. Its proprietary suite of image search technologies allows government and commercial users to rapidly search large volumes of high-resolution imagery for specific content of interest. Examples include searching image archives for: objects of interest (airplanes, storage tanks, etc.), areas of interest (new construction), and areas that change between multi-date images (urban growth).
	CircLabs, Inc. CircLabs, incubated at the Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute at MU, has created Circulate, a service that discovers news, information and entertainment from trusted sources and delivers personalized streams of content to each consumer wherever he or she is on the Web. Circulate can help publishing businesses through local branding, increased high-value traffic, local advertising and subscription revenue.
	Androit Motion Androit Motion is a minimally invasive surgical instrument design and manufacturing start-up company, with the focus to provide surgical precision and improved dexterity through robotic hand instruments. Adroit Motion, LLC is a spin-out from the Biodesign and Innovation Program fellowship at the University of Missouri.
	Emergence Bioscreening Recently formed Emergence BioScreening, LLC is the exclusive licensee of a technology from Missouri University of Science & Technology (Rolla) for both a novel instrument and method to detect pteridine biomarkers in urine samples for cancer screening. The technique is non-invasive, sensitive, accurate, fast, simple, cost effective, and adaptable for routine screening at annual physicals, monitoring of cancer progression, evaluation of cancer treatments, and as a translational research tool in pharmaceutical research.

Investing in Missouri

Research Parks & Incubators

The University of Missouri System’s statewide network of research parks provides a thriving environment for discoveries to move from the laboratory to the marketplace. The atmosphere of innovation and collaboration attracts national and international tenants who create quality employment opportunities for Missouri citizens and millions of dollars of capital investment across the state.

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Office of Intellectual Property Administration

The Office of Intellectual Property Administration (OIPA) supports the economic development mission by encouraging broad practical application of university research for the public benefit; assisting those associated with the technology transfer program with evaluating, protecting, licensing and commercializing university discoveries; and carrying out new economic development initiatives designed to create jobs in Missouri.

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Funding Opportunities

The Office of Research and Economic Development is dedicated to commercializing university technologies - one of the biggest challenges to that mission is funding. To proactively combat the constant obstacle, the office has formulated different funding programs for faculty, students and innovations in all stages of the discovery process.

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Office of Research & Economic Development

The Office of Research and Economic Development was established in 2005 to link research and commercialization from the four University of Missouri System campuses with emerging and existing firms across the state and around the world. Working closely with the chief research officers, chancellors and technology transfer offices from each campus, the office also serves as a conduit to local, state and federal agencies to ensure research results aid the growth of Missouri’s economy.

The Office is dedicated to advancing Missouri through innovation, investment and infrastructure.

Our enthusiasm for these three categories revolves around the development of intellectual property, funding programs and research parks and incubators. Providing support during critical stages in university inventions’ path to the marketplace stimulates Missouri’s economy, jobs and entrepreneurship.

Our vision is to enable and lead Missouri’s transformation toward a knowledge-based economy dependent upon innovation and entrepreneurship.

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