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CTV’s Year in Review; New Website; Tech Initiatives in NYC
Dear Colleagues,
 Welcome back! Reflecting upon the academic year that just finished, CTV had quite a bit of good news to report, with record numbers of inventions (392, up 32% in the past 6 years), licenses and option agreements with industry (106, up 100% in 6 years), and start-ups (18, up 80% in 6 years). With all of that activity, we certainly were happy to have the summer break, and hope that you found it as refreshing as we did. The new academic year is starting with a bang, especially for the technology development and entrepreneurship initiatives with which we have the pleasure of being associated:
- The NYC Media Lab’s Annual Summit was a huge success, with over 700 attendees, $25K technology challenge grants announced from Publicis, Major League Baseball Advanced Media, Bloomberg, Time Warner Cable, Hearst, NBCUniversal, and others, and over 50 student and faculty teams presenting demos of cutting-edge technology solutions. Columbia Professors Steve Feiner (SEAS) and Mark Hansen (Journalism) both gave great talks on the main stage, and teams from the labs of Drs. Shih-Fu Chang, Julia Hirshberg, Laura Kurgan, and others attracted a huge crowd. For more information on the summit, including a list of the open challenge projects and videos of the talks, please click here.
- PowerBridgeNY, the clean energy proof-of-concept center funded by two $5M grants from NYSERDA (one lead by Columbia, one by NYU), is launching this year’s call for proposals. Last year, 12 research teams from Columbia, NYU, Cornell, CUNY, Stony Brook, and Brookhaven were awarded funding out of 50 applications! If your lab may have a clean energy technology that could become a promising start-up, click here for more information, or RSVP to join us live for the information session at Columbia on Sept 29th.
- Now in its fourth year, the Columbia Coulter Translational Research Partnership is accepting Pre-Proposals for the 2014 application cycle. The Partnership will deploy funding and resources (marketing, regulatory, reimbursement, and legal) to help advance nascent biomedical ideas from conception to proof-of-concept. Click here for more information, or come to an upcoming information session on campus.
Finally, we just launched our newly-designed CTV website. We hope that the new site makes it even easier to browse all of the great technologies available for licensing at Columbia! Check the site often for news about upcoming events on campus and elsewhere in NYC.
Best wishes,
Orin Herskowitz
Executive Director, CTV
VP for Intellectual Property & Technology Transfer
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Upcoming Events & Deadlines
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PowerBridgeNY Info Session 2
SEPT 25 | 1:00PM | MORNINGSIDE CAMPUS
Researchers interested in applying for PowerBridgeNY funding should attend to learn more about the schedule, application requirements, and general expectations of teams.
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ELabNYC Info Session
SEPTEMBER 30 | 12:00PM | MEDICAL CENTER CAMPUS
Join us at Columbia University Medical Center for an ELabNYC Info Session and Columbia ELab Alumni Panel Discussion.
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Columbia-Coulter Info Session
OCTOBER 1 | 12:00PM | MEDICAL CENTER CAMPUS
The Columbia-Coulter Translational Research Partnership offers $1M in funding and support to develop promising biomedical technologies. Please join us at an information session to learn more about this exciting opportunity.
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Columbia-Coulter Info Session
OCTOBER 6 | 4:00PM | MEDICAL CENTER CAMPUS
The Columbia-Coulter Translational Research Partnership offers $1M in funding and support to develop promising biomedical technologies. Please join us at an information session to learn more about this exciting opportunity.
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Patents 101 - Morningside
OCTOBER 9 | 1:00PM | MORNINGSIDE CAMPUS
Jeffrey M. Sears, PhD, Chief Patent Counsel for Columbia University, will present a patent law primer focusing on what you need to know to preserve patent protection for your inventions.
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Venture Capital Perspective: Medical Devices & Digital Health
NOVEMBER 11 | 4:00PM | MORNINGSIDE CAMPUS
Join us for a lively discussion and Q&A with Dr. Lee Wrubel of Foundation Medical Partners, covering venture capital perspectives on the evolution of the start-up landscape in medical devices and digital health.
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Imaging the Living Brain
COLUMBIA NEWS | Elizabeth Hillman, associate professor of biomedical engineering and member of the Mortimer B. Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute, leads a team that is developing new imaging methods for the living brain.
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New Hope for Hair Loss
CUMC NEWSROOM | Medical Center researchers have identified the immune cells responsible for destroying hair follicles in people with alopecia areata, a common autoimmune disease that causes hair loss.
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Targeted Drug Delivery With Focused Ultrasound Induced Blood-Brain Barrier Opening | Learn more
Accelerated High-Performance Visual Search for Mobile Devices | Learn more
Geotagging Images With Improved Street View Database Matching | Learn more
Razor Brush Sampling Catheter for Endoscopic Biopsies | Learn more
Surgical Stapler for Anastomosing Aorta and Dacron Tube Graft | Learn more
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