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The Kentucky Network for Innovation & Commercialization (KYNETIC) has selected its first round of promising university-born health and medical technologies, each of which will receive training and $33,000 for development. Six projects were selected this funding cycle, two of which are from UofL: Pediatric NeuroRecovery Posture Control System (researcher Andrea Behrman) Vertify Probe: Intraoperative Device for Measurement of Bone Quality (researchers Stuart Williams, Maxwell Boakye and Michael Voor) KYNETIC is a statewide program supported by $6.6 million in funding, including a $4 million Research Evaluation and Commercialization Hub (REACH) grant from the National Institutes of Health and matching funds. The goal is to advance the most promising biomedical research innovations including pharmaceuticals, devices and apps from the state's eight public universities and the Kentucky Community & Technical College System (KCTCS). KYNETIC grants support six-month, milestone