Brief
Spencer Lemons, vice president of Industry Relations and Technology Transfer will present the lecture, "Technology Transfer: Moving Research from the Bench to the Bedside," at 2 p.m., Wednesday, Dec. 7, in Pelton Auditorium.
From its beginnings with the licensing of Vitamin D for use in milk in 1924 by the University of Wisconsin, technology transfer has evolved dynamically, leading to the creation of Netscape, Google and Rosetta Inpharmatics, the development of Gatorade, Taxol, Mylotarg and Tysabri, and the origination of the field of biotechnology with the licensing of the Cohen-Boyer patents on genetic engineering.
This lecture will touch briefly on the roots of tech transfer and then explore in depth the mission of technology transfer and the challenges of commercializing early-stage university technologies while supporting and maintaining an academic-research culture.
All Center staff and faculty are welcome. Postdoctoral fellows and graduate students attending this lecture will receive credit toward the Center's ethics-education requirement.
