The U.S. National Science Foundation’s Innovation Corps (I-Corps™) program is an immersive, entrepreneurial training program that facilitates the transformation of invention. In a seven-week experiential training program, scientists and engineers extend their focus beyond the university laboratory — accelerating the economic and societal benefits of NSF-funded projects for commercialization.

CAR-T Chips is an organ on a chip deep tech device company that streamlines the pre-clinical drug testing process for more accurate endpoints. Organ on a chip devices mimic the tumor microenvironment to provide real time accurate readings of what would happen in the body at a microscopic scale.

Through the I-corps program, Walida was train in the following as the co-entrepreneurial lead:

— Training an entrepreneurial workforce —

— Translating technologies —

— Enabling positive economic impact —

— Nurturing an innovation ecosystem —