Tech Transfer’s Role in Solving COVID-19 Challenges

On Tuesday, September 29, leaders from Michigan’s University Research Corridor (URC) joined in a virtual forum to discussed how URC tech transfer responds to the COVID-19 pandemic, advances industries and drives our economy forward, even in uncertainty.

Partnering with the MSU Institute for Public Policy and Social Research and the U-M Wolverine Caucus, Michigan entrepreneurs, inventors and tech transfer leaders from the three universities discuss:

• Emerging COVID-19 startups: who they are and how they help
• University Tech Transfer: What is it, and why you should care
• What’s happening nationally and how Michigan stacks up
• What Michigan needs to do to compete and keep innovation in our state

Speakers:

• Rich Chylla, Executive Director, MSU Technologies
• Jack Lipton, Chair and Professor of MSU Department of Translational Neuroscience

Download MSU.slides.09292020 (PDF)

• Joan Dunbar, Associate Vice President, Research, Wayne State University
• Braden Robison, Chief Operations Officer, Seraph Biosciences

Download WSU.Seraph.09292020 (PPT)

• Kelly Sexton, Associate Vice President for Research – Technology Transfer and Innovation Partnerships, University of Michigan
• Peter Falzon, President and CEO, Ripple Science Corporation

Download UM.Ripple.slides.09292020 (PDF)

Moderator:

• Britany Affolter-Caine, Executive Director, Michigan’s University Research Corridor

Download URC.info.09.29.20 (PDF)