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Invention
Meet the Finalists: The Innovation Awards 2022, Presented by Dallas Innovates and D CEO
by Dallas Innovates | Staff Report | Oct 26, 2021
Now in its third year, the program from Dallas Innovates and D CEO honors 78 disruptors and trailblazers driving a new vision for innovation in North Texas.
by Quincy Preston and Alex Edwards |
Oct 25, 2021
Wing will operate a drone delivery facility in Dallas-Fort Worth at the Frisco Station development with a small number of flights starting this week.
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by David Seeley |
Oct 25, 2021
The Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas (CPRIT) will convert previous grant awards to an equity investment. OncoNano uses pH as a biomarker to detect metastatic cancer. The technology "lights up" a tumor in imaging during real-time surgery.
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by David Seeley |
Oct 25, 2021
The team is led by UTSW assistant professor Gary Hon, Ph.D., who developed Mosaic-seq, a gene engineering technique that helped lead to the grant award. UTSW will now become a research partner in a new $185M National Institutes of Health (NIH) initiative to build on findings of the Human Genome Project.
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Parkland's SuperBetter app "takes the best of psychology and a seven-point methodology" to empower youth and other users to navigate life in a way to build resilience.
United Way of Metropolitan Dallas Awards $1M in Health Innovation Technology Prize Funding
by Quincy Preston | Oct 19, 2021
Five local winners received up to $200,000 in funding to activate their solutions throughout North Texas.
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by David Seeley |
Oct 19, 2021
Many hospitals overwhelmed by the pandemic have dealt with patient medication labeling the old-fashioned way—with quickly scrawled, handwritten info taped to syringes and IV bags. Vigilant's new platform improves patient safety and medication workflows, reducing time spent managing infusion lines so the focus can remain on the patient.
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by David Seeley |
Oct 14, 2021
A transportation study team is exploring a potential high-speed Dallas-Arlington-Fort Worth rail line along the I-30 corridor. The North Central Texas Council of Governments is holding open house presentations on the project—which could ultimately lead to a bullet train or hyperloop whizzing us between the cities.
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by Quincy Preston |
Oct 14, 2021
The Water Cooler at Pegasus Park—the largest shared nonprofit space in Texas — is a place designed to accelerate impact, together.
From Big Thought to SVP Dallas to The Trust for Public Land, the 15 ‘exceptional nonprofits' were picked after an application process last summer. They’ll join Water Cooler's five founding tenants.
From Big Thought to SVP Dallas to The Trust for Public Land, the 15 ‘exceptional nonprofits' were picked after an application process last summer. They’ll join Water Cooler's five founding tenants.
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Signature Biologics President and COO Chloe Bailey
Irving-Based Biotech Joins Rare Disease Company Coalition to Support Innovation in Life Science
by Quincy Preston | Oct 12, 2021
Rare is not that rare, says the RDCC. One in ten people lives with a rare disease, and the new coalition will unify life science companies dedicated to developing treatments. The goal? To inform policymakers of the unique challenges in the space.
Signature Biologics joins Dallas-based Taysha as a member of the RDCC.
Signature Biologics joins Dallas-based Taysha as a member of the RDCC.
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by David Seeley |
Oct 12, 2021
TI says its Hall-effect sensor is "the industry's most accurate." The 3D-sensing technology is a boon for smart factories and the real-time control of devices like autonomous robots.
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by David Seeley |
Oct 8, 2021
Fresh from the London Bridge and Canary Wharf in London, the chain of bar-eateries "reimagines" shuffleboard with "unparalleled vision technology" for an immersive, highly social experience. Get your wrists ready for craft cocktails, pizza, munchables, and—most importantly—shufflin' your puck down the board.
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by Southwestern Medical Foundation |
Oct 8, 2021
Learn the ways medical school classrooms are looking more and more futuristic by incorporating simulation learning into their curriculums.
sponsored by Southwestern Medical Foundation
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U.S. Patent No. 11,125,856 (Distance measurement using millimeter wave radar) was assigned to Texas Instruments Incorporated.
Dallas Invents: 127 Patents Granted for Week of Sept. 21
by Quincy Preston | Oct 5, 2021
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 11 for patents out of 250 metros. Patents granted include: AbTech Industries' evaporation apparatus for treating waste water, Assa Abloy's remote loading dock authorization systems and methods, IBM's drone station marketplace, Safepass' digital badge, and Toyota's subscription-based smart refueling.
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by Quincy Preston |
Oct 5, 2021
The NTXIA is a founding member of the new National Smart Coalitions Partnership, now one of the largest smart cities networks in the country. The organization unites more than 100 governments across seven regional smart cities consortiums.
The goal? To accelerate sustainability and resilience in communities.
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by David Seeley |
Oct 5, 2021
The Arlington Assembly plant has 5,677 employees and has produced more than 12 million vehicles since it opened in 1954. The new investment follows a $1.4 billion, 1.6 million-square-foot expansion at the plant that began in 2015.
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by David Seeley |
Oct 4, 2021
In partnership with the Southwestern Medical Foundation, the Cary Council awarded $50K grants to each of its three 2021 young "DocStars." On a recent "What's Up Doc?" virtual event, the young investigators spoke about how their research projects are going, what they hope to achieve—and why the seed grants are a catalyst for medical innovation.
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