BioVentures LLC

🚀 Applications are now open for the next cohort!

What happens when cancer researchers learn to think like innovators?
Just ask Lokesh Akana and Jose Andres Ochoa Roa.
As members of BioVentures' first Cancer and Developing Entrepreneurial Technologies (CADET) cohort, they developed and refined their technology, pitched their idea to a panel of judges, and ultimately won the program's final pitch competition.

Along the way, they gained hands-on experience in innovation, intellectual property, commercialization, entrepreneurship, and scientific communication, building the skills needed to help move discoveries beyond the laboratory and toward real-world patient impact.
If you're a graduate student or postdoctoral fellow interested in cancer research, innovation, and entrepreneurship, this is your opportunity to join the next CADET cohort.

📅 Application Deadline: August 7
🎓 Program Begins: September 4

🔗 Apply through the link in our bio or visit bioventures.tech/programs/cadet to learn more.

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New BioVentures Podcast episode out now 🎙️

In this episode, we feature Dr. Marie Burdine, a participant in the latest AR Health Ventures Accelerator cohort, and her team’s work on a novel therapy designed to help reduce delayed graft function in kidney transplant recipients.

The technology aims to protect donor kidneys from transport-related damage, with early preclinical results showing improved recovery and reduced injury.

If successful, this approach could help improve transplant outcomes and support greater availability of donor organs.

Listen now on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/57qsPPTAQ3uNesW0dMdT4X?si=4bd8c15fcdb9438d

Registration is open for BioVentures Innovation Day 2026!

Join us on August 19 for a full-day event exploring how research discoveries move from the lab toward products, partnerships, startups, and patient impact.

This year’s program will feature sessions on health innovation, intellectual property, funding pathways, industry partnerships, regulatory strategy, medical device development, commercialization, and lessons from the innovation journey.

Whether you are a researcher, entrepreneur, investor, industry partner, or member of the healthcare innovation community, Innovation Day is designed to connect ideas with opportunity.

Register now: https://bioventures.tech/innovation-day-2026/

Join us this Friday for the Grand Finale: Pitches & Demos of the AI Hackathon & HealthTech Startup Week at University of Arkansas at Little Rock 🚀

Over 50 students will present the AI-powered HealthTech solutions they built in just one week, competing for $20,000 in prizes, and attendees will get to vote.

The hackathon kicked off yesterday, bringing together students with backgrounds in entrepreneurship, marketing, creativity, and coding to solve real healthcare challenges using AI.

Whether you’re interested in AI, healthcare, startups, innovation, or supporting young builders, this is a great opportunity to see the next generation of talent in action.

📍 UA Little Rock Campus
Engineering & Information Technology Auditorium
2801 S University Ave, Little Rock, AR
📅 Friday, June 12
🕑 2:00 PM – 5:00 PM
🎟️ Free event

Click here to sign up: https://forms.gle/dftpWHyqfgA7ATkEA
More event info: https://luma.com/7mtkcjyl

Come support the students and see AI + HealthTech innovation in action.

AI Hackathon and Healthtech Startup Week at UALR