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Category: Idea-to-Impact Series

Expo West 2024
  • Idea-to-Impact Series

Always in season

UNC-affiliated company Seal the Seasons creates new markets for farmers to sell produce locally. How did it become the top...
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  • Idea-to-Impact Series

Beyond bagels

How did UNC-connected startup Brandwein’s Bagels bring New York bagels to downtown Chapel Hill? And how is it making daily...
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  • Idea-to-Impact Series

Single-cell solution

Cell Microsystems, a company with UNC-Chapel Hill origins, is leapfrogging traditional technologies for single-cell cloning, culturing, analysis and isolation. How...
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  • Idea-to-Impact Series

Clot-busting combination

SonoVascular, a startup based on technologies developed at UNC-Chapel Hill and NC State University, combines drug-based and mechanical therapies into...
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  • Idea-to-Impact Series

Bowls brimming with good

Equiti Foods, a startup founded by a UNC nutrition professor, creates tasty frozen meal bowls that promote healthier outcomes in...
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  • Idea-to-Impact Series

A birth control pill for men? How a UNC scientist-turned-entrepreneur plans to curb unintended pregnancies.  

Eppin Pharma Inc, a startup founded by a former UNC-Chapel Hill faculty member, is developing a non-hormonal oral male contraceptive...
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  • Idea-to-Impact Series

Confidence in their craft

Nora Spencer, the founder and CEO of Hope Renovations, remembers when one particular woman signed up as a trainee at...
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  • Idea-to-Impact Series

The prognosis for pancreatic cancer remains dim. Can energy-based drug delivery brighten the odds? 

When Tony Voiers walked into a conference room at the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in early November 2016, he...
B3 Coffee team operates a pop-up coffee stand at the Innovate Carolina Junction
  • Idea-to-Impact Series

How is a coffee startup ‘flipping the system’ for people with disabilities?

You step to the front of the line at a coffee kiosk to order a cup of your favorite brew....
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  • Idea-to-Impact Series

Can microbubble ‘jackhammers’ create a breakthrough for personalized medicine?

UNC-affiliated startup Triangle Biotechnology’s nanoparticle technology amplifies the power of sound to give scientists rapid, higher-quality sample analysis capabilities—and clinicians...
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  • Idea-to-Impact Series

‘The most amazing movie I’d ever seen’

UNC-affiliated startup Mizar Imaging helps scientists turn traditional microscopes into high-resolution instruments that they can use to see the inner...
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  • Idea-to-Impact Series

Wiping away the invisible dangers of hazardous drugs

When pharmacists, nurses, and technicians come home at the end of the day and slide their shoes off, they’re ready...
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  • Idea-to-Impact Series

A voice for the voiceless

When a helicopter airlifting a patient touched down at UNC Hospital in the spring of 2019, first-year ENT resident Andrew...
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  • Idea-to-Impact Series

Software serving citizens

You might guess that the biggest bet CEO and co-founder Tai Huynh ever made was starting his company Acta Solutions....
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  • Idea-to-Impact Series

Building professional pathways for all

As Nehemiah Stewart sat in the car with his mother in 2019, he didn’t know that he would soon launch...
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