Media Center
Welcome to the Harvard OTD Media Center. This section provides the latest news on OTD announcements, including new partnerships and agreements and also serves as the home for recent media coverage and details on upcoming events.
Press Releases
In the News
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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" |
| 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. |
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. |
| 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 |
| 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. |
| 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. |