Reposted from KAUST News on May 14, 2019 Red Sea Farms, an agriculture technology spinout company from KAUST specializing in saltwater greenhouse technology, secured $1.9 million of co-investment from the KAUST Innovation Fund and Research Products Development Company (RPDC). Red Sea Farms is uniquely…
Reposted from KAUST News on February 12, 2019 KAUST recently signed an agreement with Elm, a joint-stock company and a leading digital solutions company in Saudi Arabia owned by the Public Investment Fund (PIF), to collaborate in research and development on…
Reposted from KAUST News on December 17, 2018 The groundbreaking of the Saudi Vaccine and Biomanufacturing Center (SVBC), the first of its kind in the Middle East, took place at KAUST on December 15. The ceremony was held under the…
Reposted from KAUST News on November 21, 2018 KAUST signed a worldwide agreement with Thermo Fisher Scientific, providing the company access to its two patents that have the potential to expand the range of applications for high-resolution transmission electron microscopy (HRTEM)….
Reposted from KAUST News on November 9, 2018 Air Products signed an agreement to become a strategic partner of the KAUST Industry Collaboration Program (KICP) with the University. A world-leading global industrial gases company, Air Products is the latest influential international company to…
Reposted from KAUST News on October 4, 2018 Lockheed Martin, the global security and aerospace company, today signed its first international Master Research Agreement with KAUST. The two organizations have also announced their initial collaboration in the field of flexible…
Reposted from KAUST News on September 4, 2018 McLaren Racing and KAUST signed a five-year research and development (R&D) agreement focused on extreme performance technology. The partnership aims to advance research in the areas of computational fluid dynamics (CFD), machine…
The newly constructed Dow Innovation Center at KAUST was inaugurated on Tuesday, May 15, 2018 in a ceremony attended by Dow executive leadership, the KAUST Board of Trustees, University leadership, and special invited guests from Saudi Arabia. Located in the…
Martin Ibarra and Michael Margineanu are two KAUST PhD students with a deep interest in the translational opportunities of bioscience research. Working with KAUST Innovation and Economic Development (I&ED), the pair designed KAUST’s first bio-entrepreneurship ideation workshop for a large…
The King Abdullah University of Science and Technology’s (KAUST’s) Innovation and Economic Development department hosted its largest STEAM Innovation Challenge April 10–12, 2018. More than 300 Saudi university students from 16 universities participated in the intensive ideation program. Entitled “Secure…