LMU Innovation Incubator

• With its Innovation Incubator program, the LMU Innovation & Entrepreneurship Center (IEC) has helped teams from LMU to receive more than 2.5 million euros in public funding.
• The program promotes start-up ideas from LMU research and offers systematic support for the further development and implementation of innovative concepts.
• From physics and computer science to medicine and sport: experts developed a wide range of ideas for new applications.

Two years after the LMU Innovation Incubator was founded at the LMU Innovation & Entrepreneurship Center (IEC), the program is celebrating an important milestone: more than 2.5 million euros in public funding has been awarded to incubation teams. The program was developed in cooperation with the LMU Spin-off Service to promote innovations from LMU and to support promising projects in an early phase of innovation development.

Researchers, students and staff at LMU have the opportunity to work systematically on the development of their ideas as part of the exclusive six-month program. Bringing innovations with high relevance and impact into applications is one of the greatest successes of scientific work and has been one of the university's most important tasks since 2024 with the Research and Innovation Strategy for the Future.

"We are incredibly proud of the teams' successes," says Annie Weichselbaum, Head of the Innovation Incubator at the IEC. "Their success shows how highly motivated and courageous our teams are in combining research excellence and entrepreneurial spirit, and we are delighted to be able to support these exceptional individuals from all disciplines at LMU with our program."

According to Weichselbaum, the thematic diversity of the funded teams reflected the "interdisciplinary strength and innovative power of research at LMU". Experts from various disciplines such as physics, computer science, medicine, chemistry and philosophy have worked on a wide range of new ideas for applications in areas such as medical technology, microscopy, the construction industry and pharmaceutical research as part of the incubator.

A selection of the sponsored teams:

AICU (LMU Medicine / MedTech) provides researchers with software tools for data exploration and analysis in the medical field. AICU received the AI+Munich Grant, the EXIST Start-up Grant 2024, the TUM Prototype Grant and is part of the AI Founders, who are further developing the research tool in the life sciences. Idea providers: Julia Yukovich, Shivangi Singh and Dr. med. Thomas Melzer

ki-alz (LMU Medicine / MedTech) aims to improve diagnostic accuracy for early-stage Alzheimer's disease in primary care and introduce automated, highly accurate and patient-centered monitoring of therapy success. The project received two consecutive phases of the GoBio Initial Grant for its AI-driven advances in Alzheimer's diagnosis that set new standards in medical technology. Idea provider: Prof. Dr. med. Boris-Stephan Rauchmann

New applications possible until the beginning of October

Applications for the next cohort of the LMU Innovation Incubator are open until October 6. The target group of the program are researchers, Master's students and employees of LMU.
https://www.iec.lmu.de/en/our-services/incubation-transfer/the-lmu-innovation-incubator/

Contact:

Annie Weichselbaum
Head of LMU Innovation Incubator
LMU Innovation & Entrepreneurship Center
E-mail: a.weichselbaum@lmu.de
https://www.iec.lmu.de