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Vanderbilt Inventors, we need your help! 

Four new patents protecting Vanderbilt intellectual property were assigned during the month of August. The technologies represent fields such as neuroscience, cellular biology, molecular biology, cancer therapy, and diagnostics. 

Five Vanderbilt inventions received patent protection from the USPTO in July. The technologies represent a variety of fields, including cell biology, molecular biology, cancer therapy, neuroscience, and vaccine production, among others. 

Some powerful work is going on behind the walls of Vanderbilt Children's Hospital Outpatient Center. The Center embarked on a 100-Day Workout to identify ways they could improve internal processes.

InvisionHeart CEO Josh Nickols, PhD, had entrepreneurs and investors talking after pitching his smart ECG-based company at JumpStart Foundry’s DEMO Day.

Help is here for researchers and entrepreneurs interested in applying for an SBIR or STTR grant (Small Business Innovative Research and Small Business Technology Transfer, respectively).

The Association of University Technology Managers (AUTM) recently released their Highlights of the latest Annual Licensing Survey for fiscal year 2012 (which ended June 30, 2012 for Vanderbilt)

CTTC will host a New Ventures Valuation seminar in conjunction with the Cool Springs Life Sciences Center. If you have developed valuable technology that you believe might be the basis of a startup and want to understand how they are valued, make plans now to join us and learn more about the valuation process. 

Earlier this week, a crowd of roughly 40 business men and women, researchers, and entrepreneurs - including a handful from CTTC - listened intently as Glenn Perdue, managing member of Kraft Analytics, LLC and certified valuation analyst, shared insight into the intellectual property and new venture valuation process.

At just 20 years old, Vanderbilt engineering student Ben Whittle has become the first candidate accepted into the VU@EC program.