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Prairie Portraits: Jason Thomas
The Prairie Portraits series features founders, funders and community builders from Nebraska’s innovation and entrepreneurship ecosystem.
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Goldenrod Therapeutics raises $6.5 million to test UNMC-created drug that could change modern medicine
Incubated by Houston-based Fannin Innovation Studio, the 11h drug created in Nebraska will move toward phase 1 clinical trials in humans. If successful, it could serve as a miracle treatment for incurable neurodegenerative diseases.
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Gross-Wen Technologies sees algae as the solution to wastewater treatment
The Midwest has some major water quality issues, and it’s spreading. Nitrogen and phosphorus used to fertilize farms runs off into rivers, resulting in a record “dead zone” in the Gulf of Mexico resulting in massive toxic algae blooms that feed on the chemicals. Gross-Wen Technologies, an Ames, Iowa, startup, wants to use algae to…