Partners
Comprehensive Faculty Career Development
The Center for Faculty Advancement, Mentoring, and Engagement (FAME) provides comprehensive faculty career development throughout all domains of an academic medical center. We develop faculty to be expert educators, leaders, superlative clinicians and eminent scholars. We provide unique opportunities for women and minority faculty who are underrepresented in academic medicine and in leadership.
Support for Inventors at Ohio State
The Ohio State University supports creativity, innovation, commercialization and entrepreneurship as essential components of an academic research institution and crucial factors needed to accomplish the mission of a land-grant university.
At Ohio State, the assembly of 15 different colleges on one campus offers possibilities for multidisciplinary teams to address complex technological and social issues, achieve novel solutions and breakthroughs possible only by incorporating multiple perspectives, backgrounds and sources of expertise.
Facilitating the Transfer of Innovations to External Partners
Office of Technology and Commercialization (OTC) staff are ready to assist you determining the commercial potential of your in inventions, ideas, technologies and research. Our experts will lead you through the following steps.
- Cutting edge research leads to the generation of novel ideas.
- An invention disclosure is submitted to OTC.
- OTC meets with the inventor to gather additional information and also reviews any third-party encumbrances associated with the disclosed technology.
- OTC performs a technology assessment and determines the patentability, market potential and readiness of the technology for commercialization.
- A decision is made to: a) actively market the technology via direct and/or indirect marketing approaches, b) delay a final decision regarding the technology until additional information is produced, or c) not move the technology forward due to lack of commercial viability.
- Part of the commercialization plan for a technology moving forward often includes an IP protection strategy (Patent, Copyright, Trademark).
- An assessment report is provided to the inventor(s).
- OTC oversees the marketing of the technology and identifies a viable commercial partner.
- OTC manages the out-licensing of technologies to either an existing company, or to an entrepreneurial partner to establish a new venture.
- OTC is responsible for all post-license alliance management, license compliance and distribution of royalties.
Local Experts, Equipment and Services
The Ohio Innovation Exchange is a new initiative developed jointly by four major Ohio universities – Case Western Reserve University, Ohio University, The Ohio State University and the University of Cincinnati – with sponsorship from the Ohio Department of Higher Education and accompanied by strong industry support through the Ohio Manufacturing Institute. We are delighted to introduce this beta release that provides access to more than 8,250 faculty profiles and 200 resources from the four universities. The purpose of this beta release is to (i) highlight the work completed to date, (ii) demonstrate functionality to other Ohio-based university partners, and (iii) serve as a pre-RFP reference point for potential vendors. In subsequent releases, this innovative knowledge management framework will provide users with interactive tools to connect faculty, staff and students with industry in new information-driven ways.
Supporting Ohio's Bioscience Community
BioOhio is a member-guided service that connects and supports Ohio’s bioscience community through networking, advocacy, events, talent, information and cost savings.
BioOhio hosts numerous events throughout the year and around the state, including our Annual Conference, Women in Bioscience Conference, scientific showcases, business innovations and investor forums, career fairs, professional development opportunities and informal networking events.
Building Great Companies from Disruptive Ideas
Rev1 works with entrepreneurs to assist in the transition from idea to high-growth business. With the region's largest network of seasoned start-up advisors, corporate partners and funding options, Rev1 provides the resources needed for success.
Sharing Expertise Nationally to Benefit Research Locally
CEREC leverages the resources and knowledge base of nine CTSA hubs across the nation to enable the efficient exchange of reviewer expertise to support internal pilot funding programs.
Through collaboration, CEREC develops strategies that promote methodological excellence, scientific transparency and innovation while minimizing conflict of interest in the review process of applications for pilot funding opportunities.
The Midwest Area Research Consortium for Health (MARCH) provides an established infrastructure for investigators and external sponsors who want to conduct collaborative clinical research at academic institutions across the Midwest. MARCH aims to promote collaboration opportunities to enhance ethnic diversity and demographic variety in clinical research, provide access to large sample size research across multiple sites and increase opportunities to conduct research on rare diseases.
The Ohio State University's seven health colleges and academic medical center leads in health innovation.
Providing direct patient care to more than 1 million people and 33,000 animals every year, our integrated teams of clinicians, researchers and educators ensure our communities get the most effective care supported by the best scientific evidence. Through our partnerships at home and around the world, we extend Ohio State’s impact across the state and the globe.
Expand curiosity-driven research and creative expression activities.
The Enterprise for Research, Innovation and Knowledge positions Ohio State to expand curiosity-driven research and creative expression activities, further develop our research community, including students, faculty and staff to be leaders both today and in the future and grow the innovation ecosystem to address.
Here, discovery, translation and team science aren’t just ideals. They are our foundation as we seek answers on behalf of children everywhere.
The Abigail Wexner Research Institute aggressively supports the discovery of new knowledge and its translation into novel therapeutics and diagnostic tests to advance pediatric research. Unprecedented investment and inspired leadership have paved the way for tremendous progress. The impact on children who previously had little hope has been truly remarkable.
Our investigators traverse the spectrum of pediatric research from discovery science to population health with the common goal of improving the health and quality of life for children and their families. We recruit and train some of the brightest and most innovative researchers and clinician-scientists in pediatrics. Our researchers’ dedication and commitment enable them to work together to accomplish more than could be imagined independently.