Sasha Campbell

Jul 13, 2015

BENANOVA’s game-changing NC State technology published in Nature Nanotechnology

North Carolina State University researchers have developed an effective and environmentally benign method to combat bacteria by engineering nanoscale particles that add the antimicrobial potency of silver to a core…

May 19, 2015

Co-founder of NC State Startup, BENANOVA Inc., Awarded 2015 Lemelson-MIT Student Prize

Alexander Richter, a graduate student in North Carolina State University’s Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, has won a $15,000 Lemelson-MIT Student Prize for work to improve agricultural pest control…

Mar 9, 2015

NC State Startups Featured at 2015 CED Life Science Conference

NC State University’s Office of Technology Transfer leveraged its partnership with the Council for Entrepreneurial Development (CED) to feature life science startups that originated from NC State at the highly successful CED Life…

Oct 22, 2014

OTT Announces Innovator and Dr. John S. Risley Entrepreneur of the Year for 2014

The Office of Technology Transfer held its 25th annual Celebration of Innovation and Entrepreneurship on October 21st, where it announced the winners of the Innovator and Dr. John S. Risley Entrepreneur…

Sep 23, 2014

WebAssign Named Fast50 Company

Triangle Business Journal on Tuesday unveiled its 2014 Fast 50 Awards list of the 50 fastest-growing private companies in the Triangle. The Fast 50 winners were selected and ranked based…

Sep 18, 2014

Eight NC State startup companies chosen to participate in the 2014 CED TechVenture Conference

Eight of the 82 companies chosen to participate in the 2014 CED TechVenture Conference are NC State startups. As a major driver of the Research Triangle Regions innovation and entrepreneurship…

Aug 20, 2014

Aseptia Selected as 15th Fastest Growing Company for 2014 Inc. 500 List

A Wilmington and a Raleigh company cracked the top 15 fastest-growing companies in America in the 2014 Inc. 500 list. Go Energies, based in Wilmington, ranked as the 10th fastest-growing…

Jul 15, 2014

Agile Sciences lands $1.5M NIH grant for cystic fribosis therapy

Raleigh biotechnology company Agile Sciences has landed a $1.5 million National Institutes of Health grant to help develop its cystic fibrosis therapy derived from sea sponges. Agile was spun out of North…

Jun 22, 2014

An NC State Startup Company is Commercializing a Natural Enzyme That Helps Farmers Feed The World

At this writing, the world population counter on the website of BioResource International (BRI) reads 7,109,797,785 (but only for half a second). To feed a projected world population of 9.1 billion by…

Jan 8, 2014

NC State University’s Office of Technology Transfer Formalizes Collaboration with HQ Raleigh

NC State’s Office of Technology Transfer and HQ Raleigh are excited to announce a collaborative arrangement to support the acceleration of NC State startup companies in 2014. Through this collaboration…