Video on how OTD supports Harvard’s mission to bring innovation out of labs to make a real-world impact.

After 20 years of service to the University, Isaac Kohlberg will step down from his role as Harvard’s senior associate provost and chief technology development officer at the end of this year, concluding an extraordinary chapter that has significantly influenced Harvard’s vision and strategy for advancing research for the public good.

Bioengineering researchers at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) have developed a soft, thin, stretchable bioelectronic device that can be implanted into a tadpole embryo’s brain and record electrical activity with no impact on normal tadpole embryo development or behavior. This novel device could help researchers better understand and treat diseases that manifest in early brain development.

Harvard Senior Associate Provost and Chief Technology Development Officer Isaac Kohlberg and Harvard Business School Professor Robert Huckman discuss the risk to the innovation ecosystem and economy with recent funding cuts to academic research.