Topic: entrepreneurship

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INNOVATORS

The Tulane Innovation Institute hired Clay Christian as its first director of commercialization intelligence and assessment and Matt Koenig as the executive director of intellectual property management. Christian was previously responsible for cultivating relationships between the School of Medicine’s research enterprise and outside collaborators. Koenig served as the director of intellectual property management for the University of Kansas.https://tulane.it/innovators-2022

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STARTUP FUND

The Tulane Innovation Institute was awarded $5 million from the state, part of the U.S. Treasury’s State Small Business Credit Initiative, to support entrepreneurs and small business owners. And Tulane matched the award with another $5 million, enabling the Innovation Institute to launch a new startup fund dedicated to creating opportunities for women- and minority-led ventures in Louisiana.https://tulane.it/startup-fund

Kimberly Gramm sits at a conference table in front of a contemporary painting
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A Coach for Innovation

Kimberly Gramm leads the new Innovation Institute, which is at the vanguard of improving lives and transforming New Orleans and the region by boosting breakthroughs and discoveries and spurring the creation of new businesses that will bring these advances to market faster.

Dr. Sophia Omoro stands in her French Quarter store, odAOMO
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Ampersand: Sophia Omoro: Surgeon, Designer & Social Entrepreneur

Sophia Aomo Omoro (M ’00, ’02) always knew she wanted to be a surgeon.

New Orleans at night
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Startup Activity

Since 2006, Tulanians have founded at least 355 companies, a third of which are located in the New Orleans area.

Bibi Gaston: Landscape Architect & Author
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Bibi Gaston: Landscape Architect & Author

Bibi Gaston’s (NC ’81) love of nature led her down one path: After Tulane, she studied landscape architecture at the University of Virginia.

Collin Ferguson (B ’04)
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Impression: Collin Ferguson

Collin Ferguson (B ’04) considers the arts community to be the greatest natural resource that New Orleans possesses.

Khoshakhlagh and Elaine Horn-Ranney at the Kennedy Space Center at the launch of the NASA SpaceX Dragon Cargo Ship in December.
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We’re on It

If there is an ecosystem that is threatened, a population in peril, a subject matter unexplored, a discovery yet to be made, a cure to be found — somebody at Tulane is working on it. That’s just what we do.