Through support from the CTNext Higher Education Fund, the Office of the Vice President for Research (OVPR) has been able to administer the START Preliminary Proof-Of-Concept (PPOC) Fund to help advance promising technologies towards commercialization. The OVPR has recently finalized award decisions for the first three quarters funding rounds of the program.<\/p>\n
START recipients are awarded up to $10,000 to move their projects forward. Recipients come from Central Connecticut State University (CSCU), Southern Connecticut State University (SCSU), University of Bridgeport (UB), and UConn. The goal of this program is to foster and bolster the initial validation of innovative early stage technologies that have possible commercial potential and is designed to bring those technologies to a stage that may be more attractive for additional later stage translational funding support.<\/p>\n
Jemel Aguilar<\/strong>, Southern Connecticut State University, Department of Social Work – $10,000 Khaled Elleithy<\/strong>, University of Bridgeport, Department of Computer Science and Engineering – $10,000 Julia Irwin<\/strong>, Southern Connecticut State University, Department of Psychological Sciences – $15,000 Yusuf Khan<\/strong>, UConn Health, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery – $10,000 Ruth Lucas<\/strong>, University of Connecticut, Department of Nursing Instruction and Research – $8,199.99 Beth Taylor<\/strong>, University of Connecticut, Department of Kinesiology – $9,035 Krystyna<\/strong> Gielo-Perczak<\/strong>, School of Engineering, Department of Biomedical Engineering – $10,000 Ausif<\/strong> Mahmood<\/strong>, University of Bridgeport, Department of Computer Science and Engineering – $10,000 Eugene<\/strong> Pinkhassik<\/strong>, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Department of Chemistry – $10,000 Frank<\/strong> Torti<\/strong>, School of Medicine, Department of Medicine – $10,000 For more information about the competition, visit the program website<\/a>.<\/p>\n Carl Coelho<\/strong>, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Department of Speech, Language, and Hearing Science – $10,000 Alaa Sheta, Southern Connecticut State University, Department of Computer Science and Engineering – $10,000 Lawrence Silbart, College of Agriculture, Health, and Natural Resources, Department of Allied Health Sciences – $10,000 Young Tang, College of Agriculture, Health, and Natural Resources, Department of Animal Science – $10,000 Madhur Upadhyay, School of Dental Medicine, Community Medicine and Health Care – $10,000 Miaowei Weng, Southern Connecticut State University, Department of Literature, Cultures, and Languages – $10,000 <\/p>\n Follow UConn Research on<\/em> Twitter<\/em><\/a> &<\/em> LinkedIn<\/em><\/a>. <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Through support from the CTNext Higher Education Fund, the Office of the Vice President for Research (OVPR) has been able to administer the START Preliminary Proof-Of-Concept (PPOC) Fund to help advance promising technologies towards commercialization. The OVPR has recently finalized award decisions for the first three quarters funding rounds of the program. START recipients are […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":127,"featured_media":158878,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_crdt_document":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_series":0,"wds_primary_attribution":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2224,1866,2226,1877,2076,2166,1868],"tags":[],"magazine-issues":[],"coauthors":[2140],"class_list":["post-158875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cahnr","category-engr","category-clas","category-nur","category-research","category-sdm","category-meds"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-26 02:23:08","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/127"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=158875"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158875\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/158878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158875"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=158875"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=158875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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\nCo-PIs\/Team:<\/strong> Romi Khan, Fiverr Consulting<\/p>\n
\nHomeLock<\/em>
\nCo-PIs\/Team:<\/strong> Thomas Arciuolo, University of Bridgeport; Kosaraju Venkata Uday Shankar, University of Bridgeport<\/p>\n
\nHearing Assessment in Response to Noise Screener (HeARS)<\/em>
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\nCo-PIs\/Team:<\/strong> Thanh Nguyen, Department of Mechanical Engineering; Eli Curry, Department of Mechanical Engineering; Megan Jalbert, Allied Health; Jimi Francis, University of Texas at Tyler<\/p>\n
\nDevelopment and Validation of a Clinical Prediction Mobile Application Tool for the Diagnosis of Statin-Associated Muscle Symptoms<\/em>
\nCo-PIs\/Team:<\/strong> Amanda Zaleski, Department of Kinesiology; Paul Thompson, Hartford Hospital<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\nSTART 2020 Q2 Awardees:<\/h3>\n
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\nCo-PIs\/Team:<\/strong> Sushant Singh, University of Bridgeport<\/p>\n
\nIntegration of homogeneous catalysts entrapped in nanocapsules in flow processes<\/em>
\nCo-PIs\/Team:<\/strong> Sergey Dergunov, Department of Chemistry<\/p>\n
\nSideroflexin 4: A Novel Target for Cancer Therapy<\/em>
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\nDevelopment of a Therapeutic Bandage to Treat MRSA Skin Infections<\/em><\/p>\n
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