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Do you receive frequent requests to share your unique research materials?  KeraFAST is an e-commerce site that facilitates the commercialization of life science research materials that you have created in your laboratory and have in stock.  The program is designed to be a convenient way to distribute materials to the research community with minimal paperwork.  A portion of the revenues are returned to the inventors according to Vanderbilt policy.

Tuesday, April 30, Launch Tennessee will host Venture Match – a “speed dating” event for entrepreneurs and inventors. The goal is to connect the state’s top innovators and entrepreneurs and explore potential “matches” between entrepreneurs and technologies in order to develop new companies, create sustainable jobs, and build value for investors. The event will be held at the Vanderbilt University Club from 6 – 8 p.m. Light refreshments will be provided.

The Center for Technology Transfer & Commercialization, in partnership with the Cool Springs Life Sciences Center will host a New Venture Valuation Workshop Friday, Nov. 1, 2013, from 8 – 10:30 am at the Cools Springs Life Sciences Center.

The session will be led by Glenn Perdue, managing member of Kraft Analytics, LLC and certified valuation analyst, and will focus on new venture and intellectual property valuation as it pertains to academia.

PURPOSE:

The Vanderbilt University Center for Technology Transfer & Commercialization's New Ventures team, in partnership with LaunchTennessee, will host an SBIR / STTR Workshop, Tuesday May 21^st, 2013, from 9:30 am to noon at Vanderbilt School of Engineering, in Stevenson 5326.

PURPOSE:

The Center for Technology Transfer & Commercialization's New Ventures team, in partnership with the Cool Springs Life Sciences Center and the law firm of Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell & Berkowitz, PC, hosted an Entrepreneurship Boot Camp Wed., April 10, from 7:30 a.m.

CTTC, in collaboration with the School of Engineering, will host a seminar, “Strategies for Intellectual Property Protection of Medical Devices,” presented by attorney Julie Haut of Michael, Best, Friedrich, LLP.

Please join CTTC and Kerafast, Inc. on Wednesday, May 23 at 11:00 a.m. in MRB III, room 1220, for a presentation regarding the commercialization of surplus laboratory reagents (e.g. antibodies, expression vectors, peptides, siRNA, small and large molecule compounds, etc.). Kerafast representatives will be on site to discuss The Investigator's Annexe^™, their innovative approach to reagent commercialization. 

CTTC and VUSE cordially invite you to attend a seminar entitled Strategies for Protection of Intellectual Property Related to Software. It will be presented by Vanderbilt alumnus Eduardo J. Quiñones, Ph.D., patent attorney with the firm of Novak, Druce + Quigg LLP.

DATE:              Wednesday, May 9, 2012

TIME:               2 – 3 PM

VENUE:           FGH 134, Jacobs Believed in Me Auditorium, Featheringill Hall

Synopsis:

The May program for My Health Chat will be the fascinating field of neurosciences.

Panelists will be Reid Thompson, M.D., chair of Neurosurgery and director of the Vanderbilt Brain Tumor Center, and Jeff Conn, Ph.D., who directs the Vanderbilt Center for Neurosciences Drug Discovery.

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