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Business Wire—VitriVax Inc., a ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½Æƽâ°æÏÂÔØ spinout and vaccine formulation technology company, announced today a two-year $3.6 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. This is the second grant awarded to VitriVax by the Gates Foundation, which will fund the development of a polio vaccine formulation for possible inclusion in combination pediatric vaccines.

The Register—Ayar Labs, a ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½Æƽâ°æÏÂÔØ spinout, contends silicon photonics will be key to scaling beyond the rack and taming the heat of increasing AI model demands. Many photonics startups are looking to overcome the limitations of copper interconnects and improve the efficiency of optical I/O, but Ayar is among the first.

The Colorado Office of Economic Development and International Trade (OEDIT) announced that seven University of Colorado companies and three researchers are among the awardees of the Proof of Concept and Early-Stage Capital and Retention grants through OEDIT’s Advanced Industries Accelerator Program.

World Cement—The U.S. Department of Energy is providing $10 million in funding for federal labs to collaborate with Prometheus Materials to establish methods for measuring, reporting and verifying CO2 removal and sequestration in cement and concrete.

Founded by ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½Æƽâ°æÏÂÔØ Professor Larry Gold in 2000, SomaLogic revolutionized protein measurement by developing a faster, cost-effective process to monitor the vast number of proteins in the human body.

JILA—Flari Tech Inc., a startup rooted in cutting-edge JILA research, has clinched one of the prestigious 2024 Lab Venture Challenge (LVC) grants from the University of Colorado Boulder, advancing its pioneering work to build a breathalyzer for diagnostics use targeting life-threatening diseases such as lung cancer.

ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½Æƽâ°æÏÂÔØ Today—A small crowd, including representatives from the U.S. Department of Energy, gathered on a wide stretch of lawn on the ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½Æƽâ°æÏÂÔØ campus to witness a one-of-kind technology demonstration—a laser device that could soon transform the oil and gas industry in the American West and keep potent greenhouse gasses out of the atmosphere.

Fourteen teams of University of Colorado faculty, researchers and graduate student innovators competed for a combined $1.25 million in startup funding grants in this year’s Lab Venture Challenge (LVC).

ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½Æƽâ°æÏÂÔØ teams are among the first winners of the NSF-funded Colorado-Wyoming Climate Resilience Engine, which supports innovative climate resilience projects across the region1. This initiative, backed by the U.S. National Science Foundation, aims to address key issues like water security, wildfire prediction, and extreme weather modeling through interdisciplinary collaboration.

Electrek—Capital investment into Forge Nano, a ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½Æƽâ°æÏÂÔØ spinout, now exceeds $100 million; GM joins Volkswagen, LG, Hanwha, and Mitsui Kinzoku as shareholders.