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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

11.09.2009Six Universities Adopt New Technology Transfer Principles Designed to Speed Access to Affordable Medicines in The Developing World
09.23.2009Harvard’s Technology Development Accelerator Fund Announces 2009 Awards
07.21.2009Harvard Medical School Announces Major Collaboration with GlaxoSmithKline to Advance Pioneering Research in Immunology
07.07.2009SpacedEd Launches Innovative Learning Technology Licensed from Harvard University
04.23.2009Nanosys, Inc. Signs Two Cooperation Agreements with Harvard University to Combine Intellectual Property Assets Covering Fundamental Nanowire Technology to Address Non-Volatile Memory and Biosensors
03.09.2009TetraLogic Pharmaceuticals Licenses Exclusive Rights to Novel Necrosis Inhibitors from Harvard Medical School
02.10.2009Harvard University Concludes a Collaboration Agreement with Endo Pharmaceuticals to Advance Innovative Research in the Treatment of Pain
12.15.2008Harvard University and Nanosys License Nanowire Biosensor Systems To Vista Therapeutics
10.14.2008Harvard University's Innovative Opinion Technology Licensed to Crimson Hexagon
10.13.2008Harvard University and SiONYX, Partner to Commercialize Black Silicon
06.17.2008Harvard University and Not-for-Profit, Diagnostics-For-All, Partner to Introduce Innovative, Low-Cost Diagnostic Technology in the Developing World
06.12.2008Harvard and SunEthanol, Inc. Announce Collaboration to Advance Biofuels Research
04.09.2008Harvard Announces Pioneering Collaboration with Merck & Co., Inc. to Advance Osteoporosis Research
02.08.2008Harvard University Launches New Round of Biomedical Accelerator Fund to Speed Proof-of-Concept and Development of Emerging Technologies
01.31.2008 Millennium and Harvard Medical School Sign Cooperative Agreement for Research in Novel Field of Cancer Biology
12.19.2007 Harvard University and Vertex Pharmaceuticals Establish Innovative Research Collaboration to Drive Medical Breakthroughs

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.