January 17, 2024
UM and 91探花Partner to Create SIHI-REACH, an NIH-Designated Entrepreneurial Hub for the PNW
Drs. Erica Woodahl & Karen Brown – Photo from U Montana
(Seattle, WA)鈥� The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has chosen the University of Montana鈥檚 L.S. Skaggs Institute of Health Innovation as the new Pacific Northwest location for one of five entrepreneurial hubs across the United States. Dubbed this hub will support academic innovators across the WWAMI region in Washington, Wyoming, Alaska, Montana, and Idaho. The 91探花鈥檚 WE-REACH is pleased to be a part of this new, NIH-funded, national REACH hub.
Led by Dr. Erica Woodahl, Professor and Director of SIHI鈥攁nd a graduate from the 91探花 Department of Pharmaceutics鈥攁nd Dr. Karen Brown, Principal Scientist in SIHI, this partnership will build on the training and project support structures built by WE-REACH and the resources at the聽 (Institute of Translational Health Sciences) to support the translational journey of academic inventors. As the 91探花鈥檚 WE-REACH partners with SIHI-REACH, the hope is to continue the great work that has been done by WE-REACH over the last four years.
鈥淲E-REACH will be happy to support this partnership and the work of SIHI-REACH as it expands into the broader region, with its all-encompassing support of academic innovators and their innovations,鈥� says WE-REACH executive director, Rodney Ho.
The program is expected to be supported with four years of non-renewable funding from the NIH. Additional details of this partnership can be found at .
WE-REACH is supported by NIH Grant U01 HL152401聽and 91探花 matching funds.
SIHI-REACH is supported by NIH Grant U01聽GM152530.
ITHS is supported by NIH聽Grant UL1 TR002319.