Innovation success stories

UM entrepreneurs have secured millions of dollars in investment leading to successful startups worldwide. Our research has been transformed into products and services, and our innovations have led to the creation of new companies that make an impact in Manitoba and around the world.

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Innovation Success

University backed startups

  • Assure CKD

  • Innovation Success: UM-backed tech promises early diagnosis of chronic kidney disease

    Chronic kidney disease (CKD) affects close to a billion people globally, often leading to organ failure due in part to the current high cost and complexity of lab tests.

    The UM-affiliated startup AssureCKD is creating rapid and affordable lab-on-a-chip technology called MATLOC, that could be administered anywhere in the world at a patient’s point-of-care. This technology represents more than a decade of research by a UM inventor team led by Dr. Claudio Rigatto and Dr. Francis Lin.

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  • Innovation Success: The startup fighting viruses you can’t see

    As the world continues to face new and emerging respiratory viruses, a UM-backed startup from researchers in the Max Rady College of Medicine is working to control airborne viruses before they spread using nanotechnology.

    Nanotreat was founded on technology developed by Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics researchers Dr. Donald Miller, Dr. Vernon Dolinsky and Dr. Vinith Yathindranath to develop new tools for the prevention of airborne infections at the site of exposure.

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  • Innovation Success: From smelly hockey gear to safer surgeries – new tech fights bacteria

    Hockey socks, football pads and sweat-soaked jerseys are all surfaces where bacteria have settled in and caused a stink. The bacteria causing these unpleasant odours is, however, part of a much larger problem.

    In hospital corridors, there is a life and death battle to keep harmful bacteria from infecting vulnerable patients. In North America, that often means using disposable gowns, surgical drapes and covers. These single use items may be sterile, but they also create mountains of medical waste.

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