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. Students have a few days to rank the technology by interest level and officially enter the challenge. Tech Venture Challenge organizers will create teams based on students level of interest in each technology and pair the students with the scientific mentors (which are typically the faculty inventors) and a local business mentor. Students will complete a variety of training programs, including sessions hosted by CTTC, and present final commercialization plans before a live audience and panel of judges.