S o you have a hot discovery, the paper has been published,and the patent has been filed.You may even have discussed setting up a business venture to exploit this advance with your University’s technology-transfer office.But what are the chances of commercial success? The odds are seemingly stacked against you.Even in biomaterials — a field with a long history in technology transfer — less than...

AlliedSignal, Inc. Near-net-shape gelcasting process that Commercialization likely. is safer and less costly than conventional gelcasting based on acrylamide, a cumulative neurotoxin-demonstrated by making structural ceramic parts for very high-temperature applications. BioTraces, Inc. Multiphoton detection (MPD) technology— Licensee PetroTraces: applications of the demonstrated in enhanced imm...

A half-day forum to address a wide range of issues related to translational neural engineering was conducted at the annual meeting of the Biomedical Engineering Society. Successful practitioners of translational neural engineering from academics, clinical medicine and industry were invited to share a diversity of perspectives and experiences on the translational process. The forum was targeted ...