Brown Technology Innovations’ 2021 Annual Report highlights our highest recorded number of invention disclosures and 87% growth in industry sponsored research agreements, driven by Brown faculty inventors.

Brown Biomedical Innovations to Impact (BBII) will fund four projects to accelerate their commercialization.

Congratulations to Brown faculty for the most productive year for inventions to date with 90 invention disclosures received to date, surpassing the previous high of 76 in 2017!

Therapyx has licensed from Brown a proprietary protein micronization and encapsulation process developed by Edith Matthiowitz (Engineering).

Brown was awarded a new patent last month (US 11,034,019) for a method enabling a robot to learn a mapping between English language commands and Linear Temporal Logic expressions, developed in the lab of Stefanie Tellex (Computer Science).The patent, which relates to robotics, would allow for non-experts to engage with particular robots without programming knowledge.

Last month, the Brown-Lifespan Center for Digital Health hosted it’s 2021 virtual conference, “Leveraging Digital Health for the Post-Pandemic World.”

RIHUB is hosting RI Startup Weekend online this year on November 20-21.

Brown is one of fifteen leading universities who will aggregate their engineering and physical science patents into broad bundles of technologies for commercialization as part of the University Technology Licensing Program (UTLP).

Nitin Padture’s research team has developed a molecular glue that increases the efficiency of perovskite solar cells in converting sunlight into electricity. This work, published in Science, was included in a recent patent application guided by Brown Technology Innovations.

Oxford Nanopore raised $217M in a recent funding round to further develop its genetic sequencing technology. The UK-based company offers sequencing technology capable of analyzing a single DNA or RNA molecule at a time while providing data in real time.

AUTM offers a guide for matching technologies with an industry partner in their Marketing to Industry Toolkit.

Our team describes ways that Brown researchers can explore commercial pathways for life sciences discoveries, including licensing, sponsored research agreements, and startups.

Deeplite, a start-up based in Montreal, closed a $6-million seed fundraising round to “bring AI to Everyday Life”. Power and processor capacity are two big limitations to AI and deep learning. Deeplite’s automated software engine enables AI computing on any device.

Brown was awarded a patent for research by Gang Xiao (Physics) on ultrasensitive magnetic tunneling junction (MTJ) sensors (US 10,983,182).

The National Science Foundation bestowed a CAREER Award to Kareen Coulombe, Assistant Professor of Engineering, Molecular Pharmacology, Physiology and Biotechnology. The award supports work included in a recent patent application (guided by the Brown Technology Innovations office).

With two gifts to the university totaling $30 million, Brown will establish a new Center for Alzheimer’s Disease Research.

The 2021 Digital Health Virtual Conference will be held on June 22.

RIHub facilitates connections between entrepreneurs and industry leaders through its many programs, including mentoring, networking, and community events.

The University of Vermont is offering an intensive Biomedical Entrepreneurship summer course in June.

A new patent has been issued this month for work in the lab of Dr. George Karniadakis (US 10,963,540).

BTI kicks off a monthly initiative to share resources focused on educating and encouraging faculty interested in patents, startups and licensing.

Brown is partnering with BridgeBio to advance new treatments for neurological diseases with genetic origins.

The annual AUTM meeting supports engagement between industry partners and university tech transfer offices.

A key strategy to achieve financial sustainability is to achieve diversity in revenue streams.

At a conference, the conversation in the hallways is often where the insights and connections happen.

Looking back a year—everyone is doing it—we see Brown inventors who pivoted to find ways to address the pandemic.

Last month, Brown was awarded three patents. Christoph Rose-Petruck and Brian Sheldon led the research behind an in-situ x-ray scatter imaging of battery electrodes (US 10,833,374).

The J.P. Morgan Health Care Conference presents a unique opportunity to connect with investors and companies in the biomedical field gathered in one place.

Tech Innovations hosted Elm Street Ventures (ESV) in January to showcase five life science research projects with potential for commercial applications.

Tech Innovations has accelerated its work to connect Brown inventors with entrepreneurs who can guide their approach to commercial applications of their research.

Dr. Ashish Jha, Dean of the Brown University School of Public Health, has announced that Dr. Megan Ranney has agreed to serve as the School’s Associate Dean for Strategy and Innovation.

Brown Technology Innovations is thrilled to have Melissa Simon join our team as Business Development Director。

A startup based on research by Justin Fallon and Ashley Webb, Bolden Therapeutics, recently won the “Golden Ticket” award from BioGen.

Disturbances in circadian rhythms, particularly sleep regulation, can dramatically affect performance and often play a role in industrial and engineering disasters.

The Brown Biomedical Innovations to Impact (BBII) fund received special attention in the Dean’s report from the Warren Alpert Medical School.

Brown faculty research and innovation came roaring back in 2Q21 with continued increases in invention disclosures.

Brown Biomedical Innovations to Impact (BBII) is an academic accelerator fund dedicated to supporting academic biomedical technologies--with potential for high impact--to become well-defined product opportunities that are attractive to industry partners and investors.

Techstyle Materials, founded and led by Professor Derek Stein (Physics), has been named to Cleantech Group's "50 to Watch" companies for 2020.

The second patent issued this year to Brown for research led by Dr. Yongsong Huang (US 10,843,165), this patent covers a unique chromatographic separation system using selenium containing functional groups (the first patent was US 10,549,255).

The DRIVEN Accelerator Hub, an NIH/NIGMS-funded consortium serving biomedical entrepreneurs in Northeast IDeA states, is pleased to offer funds for innovations or discoveries that need additional experimentation before company formation. Internal application deadline January 11, 2021.

In our first quarter of FY21, Brown Technology Innovations has maintained a focus squarely on executing the strategy and systems installed over the previous fiscal year. See our Quarterly Report

Brown, led by Brown Technology Innovations, is a prime supporter of RI Hub’s “Rhode Island Startup Weekend 2020,” a free online program with two days of learning and networking for those starting companies Nov. 20-21.

The RI Congressional delegation announced an award of $300,000 to Slater Technology Fund (Providence) from the U.S. Economic Development Administration’s 2020 Build to Scale Capital Challenge. The grant enables Slater to work with Brown to support health-care technology startups. Senator Whitehouse’s announcement is here (Whitehouse link), and our news recap is here.

Though shifting to an online platform like BIO2020, the annual JPM Health Conference will indeed take place in January. Brown Tech Innovations will send a team. Please contact us if you have interesting news or company connections related to the conference (tech-innovations@Brown.edu).

Three patents were awarded to Brown last month for research led by Gang Xiao, Amit Basu and Christoph Rose-Petruck.

Packed with seasoned entrepreneurs and business executives, we are excited to introduce the Advisory Board for Brown Technology Innovations.

Last quarter, our office received 22 invention disclosures, a 57% increase over the same period last year. We hope this is a trend among faculty; invention disclosure is a critical first step towards exploring commercial applications of academic research.

Brown has been awarded 37 patents in the past 18 months for faculty inventions. We will mail these inventors special certificates--which we hope they will proudly post in their labs--and digital badges for their social media profiles.

Our team is excited to share the first annual report for Brown Technology Innovations.