Access to clean drinking water is a basic human right, yet three billion people around the world today live without reliable water service and millions die each year from waterborne illnesses. UVA Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering Jim ...
The UVA Licensing & Ventures Group supports the incredible discoveries made at UVA to ensure they reach their full potential in the marketplace. UVA Today has compiled a list of the University's top 12 science discoveries from the last 50 years, ...
The water-disinfecting device is a ceramic tablet known as the MadiDrop, created in the lab of Dr. James A. Smith of the School of Engineering and Applied Science and produced by a nonprofit founded with support from UVA’s Licensing and Ventures Grou...
While UVA Engineering Professor Jim Smith refines the MadiDrop+ technology in the lab, LVG works to launch the new venture Silivhere Technologies that will bring this water purification product to those who need it most.
Civil and environmental engi...
July 20, 2017
By: Fariss Samarrai, farisss@virginia.edu
Nearly two years ago, the University of Virginia founded a public benefit company – “public benefit” being a key objective – to provide an affordable way for families in infrastructure-challenge...
Charlottesville Tomorrow
By: Kayli Wren | Tuesday, July 04, 2017
Inside a local company’s production facility, about 15,000 tablets called MadiDrops are packed in boxes and stacked against a wall. Collectively, these tablets could provide safe water...
MadiDrop PBC closed a second round of bridge funding with an investment from Axel Johnson Inc., a private operating company that invests in industry-leading businesses. The funds will help to build market share for safe drinking water technologies an...
MadiDrop PBC closed a second round of bridge funding with an investment from Axel Johnson Inc., a private operating company that invests in industry-leading businesses. The funds will help to build market share for safe drinking water technologies an...
By Fariss SamarraiUVA Today
A new University of Virginia-inspired public benefit company with a global health mission, MadiDrop PBC, has opened administrative offices and a small production facility in Charlottesville, company officials announced tod...
By Morgan Estabrook (UVA Today)
U.Va. Innovation launched the University of Virginia’s first crowdfunding website this week, enabling alumni and others to make targeted, tax-deductible donations in support of specific research and development project...