Texas A&M Innovation awarded over $400,000 through its Translational Investment Fund, a program that provides investments into the development of early-stage technologies with commercial potential.

Translational funding is used to accelerate the development of research innovations and ultimately increase the potential commercialization opportunity for new technologies, either through a license to an existing company or a new venture. Funds are used to de-risk new technologies or advance them to a stage where they will be more attractive to a commercial partner. Continue reading to learn about the six early-stage technologies that were awarded.

Congratulations to the recent TIF awardees! 

Join us for the next installment in our seminar series as we explore the various funding opportunities to advance research innovations toward commercialization, including intramural, non-dilutive, and dilutive funding mechanisms. Learn more and register.

Mike Vickich is a Software Engineer at the Texas A&M Transportation Institute. His work on transportation technology solutions enables state departments of transportation and cities to make data-driven decisions for transportation operations and management. Click the link to read more about Mr. Vickich's impact.

Texas A&M Innovation completed an exclusive license agreement with Peroral Biosciences, Inc., an early-stage biotech startup based in San Diego, CA, for two technologies related to oral delivery of drugs. The technologies were invented by a team from Texas A&M Health’s School of Pharmacy, led by Dr. M.N.V. Ravi Kumar with contributors Dr. Prabhjot Saini, Dr. Raghu Ganugula, and Dr. Meenakshi Arora. Read the announcement. 

Our seminar series kicked off in October with a panel presentation discussing topics related to IP protection. The session covered artificial intelligence impacts on IP, problematic situations in research agreements, benefits of disclosing, when to disclose, and more. In case you missed it, a recording of the seminar is provided at this link. 

Pete ONeill, Texas A&M Innovation Chief Innovation Officer, provided a seminar in November to researchers of the National Center for Infrastructure Transformation, which is led by Prairie View A&M University. The session included education on different forms IP focusing on patents, inventorship, the benefits of commercialization, and licensing. Learn more about NCIT.

Texas A&M Innovation is focused on harvesting new innovations, protecting intellectual property, and facilitating the commercialization process to move Texas A&M University System technologies from the lab to the marketplace. For more information on about how we can partner with you as a university researcher or industry collaborator, please contact us.

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