Big ideas are brewing at UNeTech, where startups are transforming the landscape of healthcare and technology. Among them, three standout ventures—RespirAI, Precision Syringe, and Impower Health are leading the charge into 2025 innovation. These startups embody the...
At UNeTech, we write a lot of grants. Most of them we don’t get. The good jobs challenge was one of them. Although you never really know, I suspect we fell >just shy< of the mark. Missing out on this grant wasn’t just another rejection; it felt deeply personal....
The launch of MicroWash marks a pivotal achievement in Omaha's medical technology landscape, showcasing the transformative impact of EDA support through the UNeTech Deploy! program. What began as a response to COVID-19 testing challenges has evolved into a...
The Omaha Medical Technology Pipeline (OMTP) launched in 2019 as a transformative initiative in Nebraska's medical innovation landscape. The project united the University of Nebraska Medical Center, the University of Nebraska at Omaha, the Nebraska Business...
The Economic Development Administration's Good Jobs Challenge offered another opportunity for Omaha's remarkable healthcare innovation ecosystem to come together. Working with UNeTech, the region's major healthcare employers assembled an unprecedented coalition in...
The leading cause of death worldwide, according to the WHO, is ischemic heart disease. Number 2 is stroke. The third is chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). Trends in urbanization, air pollution and tobacco use lead to a 14% increase in COPD deaths from 2010...
UNePlan shouldn’t even exist. Built on a short timeframe by a team of university developers, the system is a bespoke strategic planning platform built by a university. The web-based, cloud functioning system tracked the entire strategic plan of an organization with...
I liked James Young before he was cool. It is such a rare privilege to see something succeed so enormously from its most nescient beginning. James had applied for a job at UNeTech. Although he wasn’t the right fit I kept him in mind. I knew we’d need people to lead...
Watch this space: there is going to be a string of good news coming for the UNeTech Institute. I am sure anyone diligent enough to follow the link back to this post already knows some of it but I’m quite confident very few people know all of it.In 2024, I mean for...
UNeTech Institute is pleased to announce the fellows accepted into the third year of Opportunity Corps: Women in STEAM, our program to teach community members about entrepreneurship using both the National Science Foundation's I-Corps-inspired curriculum and...