The Office of Technology Development (OTD) is always working on creative ways to connect our research faculty with entrepreneurs and industry representatives. On February 26, Metcalf Trustee Ballroom in the School of Management played host to the third annual “Tech, Drugs, and Rock n’ Roll Unplugged” for over 70 attendees. BU’s Office of Technology Development […]
The Office of Technology Development has completed its annual Ignition Award cycle and is pleased to announce this year’s winners. Ignition Awards are typically $50K, one year grants to validate early-stage technologies in the Life Sciences/High Tech domain with clear potential commercial and medical impact. Between leading outreach through BU community to better advertise and […]
In the last two years, the Boston University Office of Technology Development has significantly grown its Kindle Mentoring Program to increase the engagement of successful BU alums and the greater Boston entrepreneurial community with the New Ventures process. Boston University and BMC together represent more than $400 million in research awards and support a research […]
February 24, 2014 at 4:35 pm
Adoption of its iPad Solutions Growing 50% Month-Over-Month; Now Employed by Thousands of Registered Clients and Therapists BOSTON – Feb. 24, 2014 – Constant Therapy, a developer of a cloud-based iPad solution that enables people with cognitive, language, communication and learning disorders to access science-based brain therapies, today announced that it has raised first round […]
October 11, 2013 at 12:31 pm
Vinit Nijhawan October 2013 United States has been a leader in research and development funding since the end of WWII. Only Japan has outspent the U.S. as a percentage of GDP, with Japanese industry outspending all other countries. The U.S. government has outspent other countries in R&D spending (see figure below). Next to the Department […]
October 11, 2013 at 12:20 pm
November 19th 2013, Grow Innovation at Biotech Event As Boston’s largest biotech networking event, BiotechTuesday has been connecting professionals for over eleven years. On November 19th, we are hosting our Grow Innovation in Biotech event to reward innovative ideas in biotech. If you have an innovative biotech product or idea, please submit a pitch to […]
October 11, 2013 at 12:14 pm
Boston University has recently proposed building a seven-story, 150,000-square-foot life sciences and engineering building to house a new center focused on synthetic biology research, as an addition to its Charles River campus. Named ‘The Center for Integrated Life Sciences and Engineering’, the building will replace an existing parking lot on 610 Commonwealth Avenue that is […]
October 11, 2013 at 12:12 pm
Imagine if a clinician had the tools to reveal the early stages of lung cancer through just a nose swab, detect liver and skin cancer with a simple blood test, or prescreen for colon cancer without the need for a colonoscopy. These are some of the goals of the research projects that are supported by […]
October 11, 2013 at 12:11 pm
Boston University is collaborating with MRC Technology, a technology transfer organization, to develop an anti-IL-16 antibody for use in treatment of inflammatory diseases and Ischemic Reperfusion Injury (IRI). A £577,000 Biomedical Catalyst Award grant to MRC Technology in 2012 will partly fund the project. The new antibody therapy may have promise for a wide range […]
Dear Reader, The recent award by a jury of over $1 billion to Apple Computer from Samsung points to the value of Intellectual Property (IP) in today’s economy. In fact IP Policy is now central to Innovation Policy in many industries. It also points to the drawbacks of one-size-fits-all patent system that provides a 20-year […]
