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A team from CTTC recently had the opportunity to tour the High Throughput Screening Facility at Vanderbilt. To say we were impressed is an understatement. The HTS team routinely screens 6,400+ small molecules per day at a single target, and serves as a guide to investigators throughout the drug discovery process.

Peter Rousos, director of new venture development with Vanderbilt CTTC, recently served on a panel at the 2013 University Startup Conference. Rousos discussed the rise in student interest in starting companies as well as the various ways CTTC is working to support Vanderbilt innovators and entrepreneurs.

It's not every Friday morning you arrive to work to see a glowing article about the effort and successes of your colleagues in VUMC's newspaper, but that's just what happened this morning.

As an industry reliant on innovation and technology, it seems obvious that technology transfer would work to simplify many of its own practices and procedures through technology, namely automated systems. Yet often, we catch ourselves relying on age-old processes that take multiple individuals and significant time.

“See a need, fill a need.” It’s the motto professed by Mel Brooks’ character Bigweld of the fictitious robotics powerhouse Bigweld Inudstry in the iconic animated film Robots.