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Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØAnschutz 360—Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØBoulder plays a crucial role in fostering innovation, interdisciplinary collaboration, and technological advancement in drug discovery and development, particularly through its expertise in quantum computing and AI and its collaborative efforts with Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØAnschutz and other institutions.

Sixteen teams of University of Colorado faculty, researchers and graduate student innovators competed for a combined $1.5 million in startup funding grants.

Pulse 2.0—Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØBoulder startup BioLoomics, the company pioneering the directed evolution of target degrading antibodies using human cells, recently announced it has raised $8.7 million in seed financing to advance its proprietary platform technology and antibody degrader programs.

Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØBoulder Today—The Compliant Legged Articulated Robotic Insect (CLARI) comes from a team of engineers at Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØBoulder. The little, squishable robot that can passively change its shape to squeeze through narrow gaps—with a bit of inspiration from the world of bugs. Ultimately, the team wants to develop shape-changing robots that can move through a complex, natural space—in which the machines will need to bounce off obstacles like trees or even blades of grass or push through the cracks between rocks and keep going.

Daily Camera—Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØBoulder researchers have created a new method to produce clean fuel that could someday give consumers a more environmentally friendly option at the gas pump. In addition to transportation, the new method could open doors to clean and sustainable energy sources for industries, including steelmaking and ammonia production.

Cyberguy—Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØBoulder startup Point Designs is working to help the healthcare industry through cutting-edge technology in the form of finger prosthetics. The team at Point Designs is combining clinical care with innovative additive manufacturing, or 3D printing, to give hope to people who have received medical denials in the past when it comes to missing fingers or hands.

College of Engineering and Applied Science—Svenja Knappe and her colleagues have developed a helmet that contains 128 sensors and is customizable for different sizes of the human head. Knappe founded the Boulder-based company FieldLine and has begun to bring these sensors to market. In the not-so-distant future, they could aid in the diagnosis and treatment of a wide range of neurological conditions like epilepsy, autism and traumatic brain injuries.

Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØBoulder Today—Chemists at Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØBoulder have developed a new way to recycle a common type of plastic found in soda bottles and other packaging and are working with Venture Partners at Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØBoulder to bring it to real-world applications. The team’s method relies on electricity and some nifty chemical reactions, and it’s simple enough that you can watch the plastic break apart in front of your eyes.

Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØBoulder Today—In 2016, Pfizer began collaborating with Sabrina Spencer, a global leader in time-lapse cell imaging and member of the Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØCancer Center, to study how cancer cells respond to their potent new drugs called CDK2 inhibitors.

Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØBoulder researchers have identified a surprising new player in ALS (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis)—an ancient, virus-like protein. With funding from the ALS Association, the National Institutes of Health, and Venture Partners at Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØBoulder, Alexandra Whiteley's lab is now working to understand the molecular pathways involved and to find a way of inhibiting the rogue protein.