Fiscal Year 2016 achievements in technology transfer, business development

Research
Sudarshan Anand, Ph.D.
Sudarshan Anand, Ph.D.

The research community at OHSU drives discoveries that improve health care, create jobs, expand the economy and improve quality of life for the citizens of Oregon and beyond. OHSU’s Office of Technology Transfer and Business Development, or TTBD, supports that community by promoting innovation and an entrepreneurial culture that enables the transfer of research from laboratory to market for the benefit of all.

For 11 years, TTBD has hosted an award ceremony to celebrate university accomplishments and recognize OHSU employees who’ve made significant contributions to innovation, entrepreneurship, industry partnership, patenting, and technology commercialization. Following are highlights from last night’s 2016 TTBD Awards Ceremony.

TTBD FY16 milestones

New companies based on OHSU technology

2016 TTBD Award winners

 “Dr. Anand is a relatively new inventor at OHSU who possesses a passion for innovation that he passes on to students and post-doctoral fellows at OHSU. Dr. Anand is always eager to work closely with TTBD and is making great efforts to develop his inventions for commercial success.” -- TTBD leadership

“Drs. Hansen and Sheridan have worked closely with TTBD the past few years and have been instrumental in the success of OHSU’s strategic partnership with Welch Allyn, Inc. Both Dr. Hansen and Dr. Sheridan possess the passion to come up with ideas and solutions for real-world problems in partnership with industry. They are models for how clinicians can successfully connect and work with industry.“ -- TTBD leadership

 “Dr. Huang is an accomplished innovator and entrepreneur having helped to co-invent optical coherence tomography, or OCT, now one of the leading diagnostic technologies in ophthalmology and optometry for such diseases as glaucoma and retinal diseases like age-related macular degeneration and diabetic eye disease. Dr. Huang has worked closely and effectively with TTBD in many capacities over the years and has a great desire to see his technologies help people.” -- TTBD leadership

“The OHSU Clinical Trials Office, Contracting Unit has worked collaboratively with TTBD for many years, but the partnership has strengthened recently to help OHSU accomplish its mission of moving research and innovation into clinical trials for public benefit. TTBD and the Clinical Trials Office, Contracting Unit complement each other in several ways while leaning on each other as more translational research occurs at OHSU.” -- TTBD leadership

Additional FY16 Accomplishments

 


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