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11.09.2009
Harvard Among Six Schools Urging Drug Access for Poor
Harvard University and Yale University are among six schools pledging to encourage companies to give poor countries better access to drugs and medical products stemming from discoveries made on their campuses.
Bloomberg.com
5.29.2009
Harvard Awards $1M in Medical Research Grants
Harvard's Office of Technology Development via its Accelerator Fund has awarded more than $1 million in grants to help university researchers with translational work.
Mass High Tech: The Journal of New England Technology
4.24.2009
Nanosys Signs Agreements with Harvard to Combine Nanowire Technology IP
Nanosys, Inc. said it has signed two agreements with Harvard University to combine intellectual property assets to facilitate out-licensing in two areas: nanowire-based biosensors and nanowire-based non-volatile memories.
Silicon Valley Business Journal
1.16.2009
SiEnergy Systems Achieves Solid Oxide Fuel Cell Breakthrough
SiEnergy Systems, LLC has developed a breakthrough solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) by placing a micro fuel cell directly on a silicon chip, an advance that will revolutionize the way people use power.
United Business Media
10.23.2008
Event to Showcase Harvard's Life Sciences Spin-Out Opportunities
"Unleashing Harvard Innovations: A First Look at Promising Life Sciences Spin-out Opportunities" will be presented by the Harvard Business School Health Industry Alumni Association (HBS Health) in collaboration with the Harvard University Office of Technology Development (OTD) on November 8, 2008 from 1:30-3:30PM at the Joseph B. Martin Conference Center at Harvard Medical School, Boston.
10.11.2008
Intuition + Money: An Aha Moment
It started with a Harvard physicist acting on a hunch. It ended up producing a new material, called black silicon, that could have a broad impact on technologies ranging from ultrasensitive sensors to photovoltaic cells.
The New York Times
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04.28.2008
OTD Participates in HBS 12th Annual Business Plan Contest
Harvard Business School (HBS) held the final round of its 12th annual Business Plan Contest yesterday in the School's Burden Auditorium, the culmination of a process that began last January with a total of some 70 student teams.
Harvard Business School
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02.08.2008
Ivy Growth
Harvard University has racked up some recent wins in its effort to develop more of its life sciences research into medical products that benefit the public.
Mass High Tech: The Journal of New England Technology
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01.01.2008
Retooling Tech Transfer
When physicist Eric Mazur’s research group created a new material called black silicon one day in 1998, he knew right away they were on to something.
Harvard Magazine
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10.19.2007
Harvard Licensing Deal Reflects Its 'Public Mission'
Harvard University, one of the originators of a statement of how institutions can serve the public good while commercializing technology, has taken the message to heart.
The Chronicle of Higher Education
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03.23.2007
Isaac Kohlberg: Harvard’s Agent of Change
Harvard University hired Isaac Kohlberg to create change at a 371-year-old institution and take its research beyond the ivory tower.
Boston Business Journal
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03.07.2007
Guidelines Offered For Responsible Technology Licensing
The nation's top research universities, including Harvard University, and the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) today issued a set of shared guidelines intended to protect the public interest when universities grant licenses for the rights to their latest scientific advances to private parties.
Stanford News Service
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11.13.2006
A New Deal On Lifesaving Drugs
Rethinking how Harvard’s discoveries reach the world's poorest. First up: a new TB vaccine
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11.09.2005
Harvard woos firms to fund research
"I want people to say five years from now, even three years from now, that Harvard has the most effective technology-transfer program in the country," said Isaac Kohlberg, Harvard's new chief of technology development.
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11.11.2004
Kohlberg is named chief technology development officer
New position was created in recognition of the changing nature of science Harvard University Gazette
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