Vectech Awarded FastForward U’s Inaugural Graduate Student Award

December 20, 2018, Baltimore, MD

Vectech, a startup developing innovative insect detection and monitoring technologies, announced today it has been awarded $5,000 in grant funding through Johns Hopkins University’s FastForward U. Vectech is one of four teams selected of forty applicants who applied  for the inaugural Graduate Student Award. As Graduate Student Awardees, Vectech will also receive mentorship from experts in their field, serial entrepreneurs and investors, as well as additional resources from FastForward U and Johns Hopkins Technology Ventures.

Vectech is developing applied optics and computer vision approaches that are able to identify vector species. Vectech's technology can be implemented in a variety of tools, from public health operations, to citizen science, and entomolgical research. 

About the Graduate Student Award: 

Johns Hopkins University’s FastForward U established the Graduate Student Award to facilitate the commercialization of graduate student innovations. Learn more about the inaugural cohort here.

About Vectech: 

Vectech, LLC is a Baltimore-MD based technology company that specializes in optics and computer vision approaches to detecting and monitoring insects. The company aims to generate data that will promote effective allocation of control resources and prevent vector borne diseases. Learn more: https://www.vectech.io/

Media Contact: 

Tristan Ford
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