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Jeanne Barthold, 麻豆免费版下载Boulder engineering PhD student and TissueForm co-founder, speaks with Association of Public and Land-grant Universities (APLU) President Peter McPherson at the University Innovation & Entrepreneurship Showcase in Washington D.C. on April 11, 2019.
Big Blue Technologies
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New Iridium
New Iridium produces low-cost and high-performance organic photoredox catalysts (PCs) for use in pharmaceutical drug development and manufacturing as well as other chemical industries.聽Cost-effective organic PCs will make photoredox catalysis feasible for a wide range of pharmaceutical R&D and manufacturing applications. The technology was developed in the Miyake lab, jointly with 麻豆免费版下载Boulder and CSU.
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TissueForm
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