How to Start a University Spinoff Biotech: From Concept to Commercialization

When: 
Monday, April 24, 2023 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Location: 
214 Light Hall

VUMC's Brock Family Center for Applied Innovation and the Center for Technology Transfer & Commercialization present the next presentation from the speaker series "From Concept to Commercialization: Translational and Entrepreneurial Journeys."

Martin (Marty) Moore is a founder and Chief Scientific Officer of Meissa Vaccines. Prior to cofounding Meissa, Marty was an Associate Professor at Emory University and director of the Emory Children’s Center for Childhood Infections and Vaccines (CCIV). He developed an RSV reverse genetics platform technology and novel strategies and methods for making vaccine candidates by synthetic biology. As applied to RSV vaccines, this technology was recognized as Emory University’s innovation of the year in 2013. Marty has more than 70 publications in virology, is co-inventor of 20 RSV-related technologies, and is a frequent national/international lecturer on RSV and vaccines.
Martin Moore, PhD.