{"id":445,"date":"2014-06-10T16:37:25","date_gmt":"2014-06-10T20:37:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/neuroscience.uchc.edu\/\/?p=445"},"modified":"2017-11-03T14:30:45","modified_gmt":"2017-11-03T18:30:45","slug":"matthew-hammond-neuroscience-ph-d-m-b-a-candidate-wins-university-wide-business-strategy-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/neuroscience\/2014\/06\/10\/matthew-hammond-neuroscience-ph-d-m-b-a-candidate-wins-university-wide-business-strategy-competition\/","title":{"rendered":"Matthew Hammond Wins Business Strategy Competition"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_464\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-464\" style=\"width: 94px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-464 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/neuroscience\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/121\/2014\/07\/Hammond-Matthew-11.jpg\" alt=\"Matthew Hammond\" width=\"94\" height=\"122\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 94px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 94\/122;\" \/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-464 \" src=\"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/neuroscience\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/121\/2014\/07\/Hammond-Matthew-11.jpg\" alt=\"Matthew Hammond\" width=\"94\" height=\"122\" \/><\/noscript><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-464\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Matthew Hammond<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A team of UConn Health graduate students, led by Neuroscience Ph.D., M.B.A. candidate\u00a0Matthew Hammond, recently won first place in the Connecticut Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation (CCEI) Startup Challenge Strategy Competition.<\/p>\n<p>The team, consisting of Hammond and Immunology M.D., Ph.D. candidate Jeremy Grenier, proposed to start Immunomod Biotherapeutics, a biotech company focused on developing therapies to treat harmful inflammation in the brain. The proposal is largely based on Hammond\u2019s thesis research studying immune responses following intracerebral hemorrhage in the lab of Assistant Professor Lauren Sansing, M.D. Additionally, the project builds on Hammond\u2019s National Research Service Award, which is a predoctoral fellowship funded by the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_449\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-449\" style=\"width: 90px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-449 size-full lazyload\" title=\"Jeremy Grenier\" data-src=\"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/neuroscience\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/121\/2014\/06\/photo_grenier11.jpg\" alt=\"Jeremy Grenier\" width=\"90\" height=\"90\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 90px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 90\/90;\" \/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-449 size-full\" title=\"Jeremy Grenier\" src=\"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/neuroscience\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/121\/2014\/06\/photo_grenier11.jpg\" alt=\"Jeremy Grenier\" width=\"90\" height=\"90\" \/><\/noscript><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-449\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jeremy Grenier<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cThe neuroscience and business training I\u2019ve obtained at UConn, together with Jeremy\u2019s medical and immunology background, really supplemented one another to yield an effective team,\u201d says Hammond. Although he cannot fully disclose his ideas, Hammond says he hopes to \u201ctarget the harmful components of the acute immune response in the brain following injury, while preserving pathogen defense and augmenting long-term neurological recovery.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The CCEI, a School of Business entity, holds the strategy competition annually to give students across all UConn campuses the opportunity to receive feedback on their ideas and obtain funding for startup ventures. Among almost 60 entrants in the strategy competition, Immunomod Biotherapeutics was selected as the overall winner and was awarded $20,000. Hammond and Grenier are currently exploring the next step toward developing and patenting their first therapy.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-448 size-medium lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/neuroscience\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/121\/2014\/06\/Immunomod-logo-300x55.png\" alt=\"Immunomod logo\" width=\"300\" height=\"55\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/neuroscience\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/121\/2014\/06\/Immunomod-logo-300x55.png 300w, https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/neuroscience\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/121\/2014\/06\/Immunomod-logo-768x141.png 768w, https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/neuroscience\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/121\/2014\/06\/Immunomod-logo-1024x187.png 1024w, https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/neuroscience\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/121\/2014\/06\/Immunomod-logo.png 1339w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 300px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 300\/55;\" \/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-448 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/neuroscience\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/121\/2014\/06\/Immunomod-logo-300x55.png\" alt=\"Immunomod logo\" width=\"300\" height=\"55\" srcset=\"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/neuroscience\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/121\/2014\/06\/Immunomod-logo-300x55.png 300w, https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/neuroscience\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/121\/2014\/06\/Immunomod-logo-768x141.png 768w, https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/neuroscience\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/121\/2014\/06\/Immunomod-logo-1024x187.png 1024w, https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/neuroscience\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/121\/2014\/06\/Immunomod-logo.png 1339w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/noscript><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A team of UConn Health graduate students, led by Neuroscience student Matthew Hammond, recently won first place in the Connecticut Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation (CCEI) Startup Challenge Strategy Competition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":97,"featured_media":464,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5],"tags":[],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-17 17:28:13","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/neuroscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/neuroscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/neuroscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/neuroscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/97"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/neuroscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=445"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/neuroscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3449,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/neuroscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445\/revisions\/3449"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/neuroscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/neuroscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/neuroscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/neuroscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}