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Sonavex LLC Wins Top Prize in AUTM Venture Forum
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Sonavex LLC won $10,000 in the AUTM business plan competition during the 2015 AUTM Venture Forum held at the 2015 AUTM Annual Meeting in New Orleans.
The Baltimore-based startup is developing a line of products called EchoSure — implantable and bioabsorbable markers (EchoMark) and ultrasound software packages (EchoFind) designed to detect the formation of blood clots after at-risk procedures. The medical device company was formed as a Johns Hopkins University spinout in 2013. Read more.
Photo: Venture Forum winner David Narrow, COO, Sonavex LLC (middle) posing with Lou Berneman (left) and panelist/judge Lauren-Kristine Pryzant.
OTT30: Emory Tech Transfer Office Celebrates 30 Years of Innovation
Emory University
Throughout 2015 Emory University and its Office of Technology Transfer (OTT) are celebrating 30 years of guiding innovative discoveries from the laboratory with the ultimate goal of creating commercial products. Emory's OTT, which had humble beginnings 30 years ago as part of the Office of Sponsored Programs, now includes a 17-member staff that not only guides inventors through the complex process of technology transfer but also works to increase the value of inventions and reduce the risk they may falter along the path to development.
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Entrepreneur-in-Residence Giving Drexel Profs a Crash Course in Lean Startup Methodology
Technical.ly
Chuck Sacco spent the better part of a decade building and running a tech company. Now he's teaching Drexel professors how to do the same. Sacco, the entrepreneur-in-residence for Drexel's Close School of Entrepreneurship, is part of a team running the university's new "Bootcamp for Academic Innovators." The 30-hour program will teach faculty members how to build a company, using the Lean Startup model, based on their academic research.
University of Vermont Research on Treatment for Heart Rhythm Disorder Earns Patent, Industry Agreement
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University of Vermont cardiologist and heart rhythm specialist Peter Spector, M.D., is on a mission to improve the cure rate for a form of the most common heart rhythm disorder — atrial fibrillation — and has already earned a patent as he works towards this goal.
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Register now for the 4th Annual Conference of the National Academy of Inventors, Mar. 19-20 at California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, CA. Conference features world class speakers including Nobel Laureate Steven Chu, special reception at California Science Center, and induction of the 2014 NAI Fellows.
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Takitani Foundation Seeds Innovation Fellowships at PACE
University of Hawaii at Manoa
The Mamoru and Aiko Takitani Foundation has committed $25,000 to the Pacific Asian Center for Entrepreneurship (PACE) at the University of Hawaii at Manoa's Shidler College of Business. The gift will be matched by the UH Office of the Vice President for Research and Innovation to seed the Mamoru and Aiko Takitani Foundation Innovation Fellowship Program.
AUTM 2016 Annual Meeting Call for Topics is Now Open!
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Participate in the AUTM 2016 Annual Meeting by suggesting a 1.5 hour workshop or special interest group. The deadline to submit is April 13. Submit your topic today.
AUTM Successful Practices in Small Technology Transfer Offices
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AUTM's Small Office Course is designed specifically for technology transfer professionals working in small offices. This course will be beneficial to those with an interest in starting a new technology transfer office or who already have an existing small office and would like to grow existing efforts dramatically.
Successful Practices in Small Technology Transfer Offices
July 21-22
The Hilton Nashville Downtown
Nashville, TN, USA
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AUTM 2015 TOOLS Course Announced
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AUTM's TOOLS Course provides a fundamental understanding of technology transfer and the patent and licensing processes. The critical issues of compliance and using iEdison will be explored, along with finding efficient ways to manage and utilize large volumes of information and data.
Technology Operations and Organization Licensing Skills Course (TOOLS)
Oct. 5-7
The Westin Seattle
Seattle, WA, USA
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AUTM Essentials Course Announced
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AUTM's Essentials Course brings participants to a common understanding of the fundamental goals and processes of academic technology transfer. The course builds skills and resources necessary to function effectively at evaluating inventions and negotiating license agreements.
AUTM 2015 Essentials of Academic Technology Transfer Course
October 5-7
The Westin Seattle
Seattle, WA, USA
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AUTM Webinars
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When Pig Feet Just Don't Cut It
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Frustrated with the lack of a realistic material for his students to practice suturing techniques, Dean Hendrickson, DVM, a professor of surgery at Colorado State University, took matters into his own hands.
He and a colleague developed a multilayer silicone suture pad that mimics live tissue and founded SurgiReal to sell the product to medical training programs and their students.
Read more about this technology and how it came to market at www.betterworldproject.org.
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