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Northwestern Startup: Wearifi, Inc.
Founded: 2015
Northwestern Inventor:
John Rogers
McCormick School of Engineering
Department of Materials Science
Wearifi delivers advanced miniaturized wearables that continuously provide highly accurate, clinically relevant, and objective data for enhanced health insights, facilitating seamless real-world data collection from preclinical discovery,...
Published: 6/22/2026
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Updated: 6/22/2026
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Category(s): Life Sciences > Healthcare Devices, Tools & IT, Physical Sciences > Engineering & Technology
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Northwestern Startup: NuCrypt LLC
Founded: 2003
Northwestern Inventor:
Prem Kumar
McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
NUCrypt focuses on the commercialization of emerging technologies that span the interface between photonic, electronic, and quantum optics. An example of NuCrypt's multi-faceted technologies...
Published: 6/22/2026
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Updated: 6/22/2026
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Northwestern Startup: ImmPro
Founded: 2024
Northwestern Inventor:
Neil Kelleher
Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences
Department of Chemistry
ImmPro has developed a mass spectrometry platform, available as contract research services, that directly measures biologically significant differences between protein forms to advance diagnostics and therapeutics development.
ImmPro...
Published: 6/22/2026
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Updated: 6/22/2026
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Category(s): Physical Sciences > Engineering & Technology, Physical Sciences > Software & Services, Life Sciences > Healthcare Devices, Tools & IT
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Northwestern Startup: Epicore Biosystems, Inc.
Founded: 2017
Northwestern Inventor:
John Rogers
McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science
Department of Materials Science
Roozbeh Ghaffari
McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Epicore Biosystems creates soft microfluidic devices that collect and analyze sweat. These novel biosensing...
Published: 6/22/2026
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Updated: 6/22/2026
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Category(s): Physical Sciences > Engineering & Technology, Life Sciences > Healthcare Devices, Tools & IT
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Highly Sensitive Ring Laser
Gyroscope and Accelerometer Enabled by SLAUMZI Technique
SHORT DESCRIPTION
A sensor that employs slow‐light augmentation in an unbalanced Mach–Zehnder
interferometer to significantly boost laser frequency shift sensitivity for precise inertial
measurements.
INVENTORS
• Selim Shahriar*
o Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering
• David Smith
• Jason Bonacum
• Jinyang...
Published: 5/28/2026
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Updated: 5/26/2026
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Plasma-Enhanced Catalytic Reactor for Selective Methane-to-Methanol Conversion
A plasma-enhanced catalytic reactor that converts methane to methanol under ambient conditions with high selectivity and energy efficiency.
INVENTORS
Dayne Swearer*
James Ho
* Principal Investigator
DEVELOPMENT STAGE
TRL-4 Prototype Validated in Lab: Key functions have been demonstrated in a laboratory-scale...
Published: 5/15/2026
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Updated: 5/1/2026
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Keywords(s): Catalyst-liquid interface, Methanol production, Nonthermal plasma, Sustainable fuels, Sustainable Materials
Category(s): Physical Sciences > Energy & Sustainability, Physical Sciences > Materials and Industrial Processes, Physical Sciences > Engineering & Technology
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Protecting Proprietary Designs via Adversary-Aware Decoy Generation
SHORT DESCRIPTION
A computational tool that safeguards proprietary protein designs by generating biochemically plausible decoy proteins to mislead adversaries.
INVENTORS
V.S. Venkatramanan Subrahmanian, PhD*
Walter P. Murphy Professor of Computer Science, Department of Computer Science, McCormick School of Engineering,...
Published: 6/8/2026
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Updated: 5/1/2026
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Keywords(s): Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning, Biotechnology
Category(s): Physical Sciences > Software & Services, Physical Sciences > Engineering & Technology, Life Sciences > Biomarkers & Biomedical Research Tools, Life Sciences > Healthcare Devices, Tools & IT
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Northwestern Startup: Actinia
Founded: 2020
Northwestern Inventor:
Mercouri Kanatzidis
Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences
Department of Chemistry
Actinia’s mission is to increase the resolution and decrease the dose used in radiological imaging techniques such as SPECT, CT, and even plain X-rays. Actinia develops cutting-edge radiation detector materials...
Published: 5/5/2026
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Updated: 4/29/2026
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Keywords(s): CT, Image/Signal processing, Imaging, Radiation detection, SPECT, Startup with Northwestern IP, X-ray
Category(s): Physical Sciences > Energy & Sustainability, Life Sciences > Healthcare Devices, Tools & IT, Life Sciences > Healthcare Devices, Tools & IT > Radiology, Physical Sciences > Engineering & Technology, Physical Sciences > Materials and Industrial Processes
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Multipurpose Ultra-strong Heat Resistant Aluminum Alloys for Additive Manufacturing
Multipurpose Ultra-strong Heat Resistant Aluminum Alloys for Additive Manufacturing
NU 2025-019
INVENTORS
David Seidman*
Amir Rezaei Farkoosh
SHORT DESCRIPTION
This technology comprises a series of ultra-high-strength, precipitation-hardened aluminum alloys specifically designed for laser additive manufacturing. The alloys deliver exceptional...
Published: 4/3/2026
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Updated: 4/3/2026
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Keywords(s): 3D Printing/Additive Manufacturing, Manufacturing/Processing, Metals
Category(s): Physical Sciences > Materials and Industrial Processes, Physical Sciences > Engineering & Technology
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Dual-Gated Memtransistor Crossbar Array for Neuromorphic Computing with Sneak-Current Mitigation
Dual-Gated Memtransistor Crossbar Array for Neuromorphic Computing with Sneak-Current Mitigation
SHORT DESCRIPTION
A dual-gated memtransistor crossbar array that electronically controls learning rates and independently manages read and write operations for enhanced neuromorphic computing.
INVENTORS
Mark Hersam*, PhD
Chair...
Published: 2/9/2026
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Updated: 2/9/2026
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Keywords(s): Neuromorphic computing, Nonvolatile memory, Scalable architecture
Category(s): Physical Sciences > Engineering & Technology, Physical Sciences > Materials and Industrial Processes
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