Category: In the News

Article first featured in Cville Biohub. Click here for the original article. Charlottesville based companies Advaray, AgroSpheres, Bonumose, Cerillo, Contraline, and Icarus Medical are among those awarded in the inaugural round of Commonwealth Commercialization Fund awards, developed through the Virginia Innovation Partnership Authority (VIPA). “We celebrate the strong representation from Charlottesville in the inaugural round of funding from the state’s ...

Article first featured on Richmond Inno. Click here for the original article. Dave Johnson spent his life active in sports, so when he was benched by a knee injury several years ago, he went to work building a device that could solve his problem. But what started as a desire to regain his own mobility has now blossomed into a ...

Article first featured in NBC29. Click here for the original article. CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (WVIR) – Dave Johnson is the founder of Icarus Medical, a new biomedical manufacturer located in downtown Charlottesville that manufactures light weight knee and joint braces using 3D printing technology. Johnson got the idea for his company when he suffered an injury to his knee while he ...

A new knee brace developed by Icarus, a company in the Batten Institute at Darden’s Catalyst Accelerator program, can take up to 50 pounds of pressure off a knee. (Photos by Dan Addison, University Communications) Article first featured in UVA Today. Click here for the original article. An old James Bond movie inspired the name of University of Virginia alumnus ...