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Blood Monitoring Solutions, a Vanderbilt startup based on a system that allows blood banks to monitor the temperature of blood and prevent wastage, will pitch their product and business plan to a room full of entrepreneurs, investors, and industry professionals Aug. 14.

The month of July brought in U.S. patent protection for nine Vanderbilt University technologies, ranging in scope from mass spectrometry to drug development. The technologies earning patent protection are: 

It’s a technology that was first pitched in April when it won CTTC’s Flash Pitch competition, and now, the brains behind PinPtr will participate in the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Innovation Corps (I-Corps) program.

It’s not often that a service-oriented unit is able to celebrate audacious achievement, but Vanderbilt’s Center for Technology Transfer and Commercialization is doing just that. The Center ended fiscal year 2014 with 101 transactions with industry partners, nearly 20 more than the record total, which was set in fiscal year 2013. 

Vanderbilt has licensed its first technology for fiscal year 2015 - software and a device that speeds the acquisition of data and improves the quality of data for high throughput screening.

Vanderbilt University and Memphis Bioworks Foundation are teaming up to accelerate business and product ideas from the university into the marketplace.

Five Vanderbilt technologies were awarded U.S. patent protection in June. They are: 

The 2014 Global Action Challenge, a million-dollar competition seeking breakthrough technologies, startups, or prototypes that could have significant impact in the world's health and food sectors, is now accepting applications. Applications are due Aug. 29, 2014.

Vanderbilt University was ranked in the Top 100 Worldwide Universities Granted U.S.