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Sometimes, you just need to be in the right place at the right time. That was certainly true for Matt Gevaert, CEO of KIYATEC, Inc. After a chance meeting at a national conference with David Merryman of the Biomedical Engineering department at Vanderbilt, Gevaert found himself in Nashville on a personal trip and decided to reach out to Merryman. During that visit, Merryman thought to connect Gevaert with a fellow Vanderbilt professor, John Wikswo, Ph.D., who had been working on a technology that seemed to be a good fit for KIYATEC.

The 2015 Tech Venture Challenge, an annual competition that partners Vanderbilt students with faculty inventors and business mentors in a commercialization planning challenge, kicked off last night at the Owen Graduate School of Management. Five technologies, which include a cancer biomarker, an employee wellness tool,a novel Betaine Aldehyde production system, a predictive healtcare system for newly admitted hospital patients, and a cancer diagnostic tool, were presented to a crowd of interested students.

Update: The full day's agenda is now available. Click here to view it.

Update: If you are interested in attending, please register quickly! There are 150 seats for this event and they are filling up fast.

This March, the SBIR Bus Tour (Small Business Innovation Research) will make a pit stop at Vanderbilt University and offer expert advice to innovators, entrepreneurs and small technology firms interested in SBIR/STTR grants.

Having spent the last decade researching and working on the development of medical capsule robots, Pietro Valdastri is no stranger to innovation, nor to the National Science Foundation’s Innovation Corps, a multi-week training program that prepares scientists and engineers to take their research out of the laboratories and into the marketplace.

The MFA Suite™ (Metabolic Flux Analysis Suite), a software toolkit providing a powerful approach for quantifying the rates, or “fluxes”, of intracellular metabolic pathways, is growing.

A team of Vanderbilt University graduate students have developed a fast, intuitive and visual user interface that can be paired with most existing electronic medical recording systems.

Four Vanderbilt University technologies earned U.S. patent protection in November. They include methods, catalysts, and intermediates for the synthesis of specific compounds, monoclonal antibodies for H1N1, and a novel apparatus and methods for percutaneous cochlear implants.