The Connecticut Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation (CCEI) is pleased to announce the teams selected to participate in the 24th cohort of Accelerate UConn, the University’s National Science Foundation I-Corps site. The following teams will receive special training and a $1,000 seed grant to help understand whether and how their technology might create customer value:

Fall 2023 Phase 1 Cohort:

Cindy Calle (Undergraduate Student), Jazlyn Claudio (Undergraduate Student), Brian Lucas Delarosa (Undergraduate Student), Gabriela Rosado (Undergraduate Student), College of Liberal Arts & Sciences — EndoX

Longtu Chen (Faculty), Bin Feng (Faculty), Shaopeng Zhang (Faculty), Eric Woon (Ph.D/Doctoral Student), School of Engineering — Novel Neuromodulation approach for addressing chronic pain

Amir Seyedsalehi (Graduate Student), Ali Tamayol (Faculty), School of Engineering — 3D PenBone

Dorian Thompson (Graduate Student), Yu Lei (Faculty), Niloofar Zolfigol (Graduate Student), School of Engineering — PFASense

Adam Herman (Alumni), Yvonne Criscuolo (Alumni), School of Engineering — Diatreaties/GlucoGoodies

Ryan C. Cooper (Faculty), School of Engineering — Educational JupyterHub Deployment

Maryam Farhadi (Graduate Student), Zahra Zare (Graduate Student), School of Fine Arts — NavGenie

Anuj Purohit (Staff), Mingyu Qiao (Faculty), Yidan Zhang (Graduate Student), Matt Cleaver (Industry Mentor), College of Agriculture Health & Natural Resources — Atlantic Sea Solutions

Tirth Thakar (Graduate Student), Mihai Duduta (Faculty), School of Engineering — Space Gripper

Ting Zhou (Faculty), Christina Ross (Faculty), School of Fine Arts & School of Nursing — Sexual Self Efficacy Learning App

Roya Movahed (Graduate Student), School of Fine Arts — An mHealth App for Fibromyalgia Female Patients and Their Supporters

Christopher Foster (Staff), Courtney Rowe (Faculty), Kelly Burke (Faculty), UConn Health & Institute of Material Science — Urethral Slow-Release Therapeutic Stent

The program includes four weeks of intensive training to evaluate their business ideas and conduct customer discovery activities, and provides a $2,000 grant to be used on customer discovery and prototyping. 

CCEI operates Accelerate UConn (AU). As an NSF I-Corps program, AU was formed to foster entrepreneurship resulting in technology commercialization. I-Corps sites are academic institutions that catalyze the engagement of multiple, local teams in technology transition and strengthen local innovation.

For more information about Accelerate UConn, visit ccei.uconn.edu/accelerate-uconn or email alycia.chrosniak@uconn.edu.