2011 FLC Mid-Atlantic Regional Meeting

Rochelle Blaustein, JD, Department of Energy

Courtney Silverthorn, PhD, SAIC-Frederick

Terry Lynch, DOC, NIST

Laurie Arrants, NIH, NINDS

Description:  Are your deals all geared to the traditional CRADA and licensing mechanism?  Have you considered ways to streamline your tech transfer process?  Have you thought about ways to play outside the sandbox and facilitate working with industry?  In this session, we'll discuss nontraditional deals and the creative processes of a few agencies.

Presenters: 

• Mark Scher, Henry M. Jackson Foundation:
  "Deals for Compassionate Use"
• Barry Datlof, U.S. Army Medical Research and Materiel Command:
  "Communities of Practice" and "The Panini"
• Courtney Silverthorn, SAIC-Frederick:
  "Inverse Umbrella CRADA"
• Maryam Azarion, VA:
  "Blue Button Trademark"

Description: New opportunities are being developed to assist entrepreneurs in creating startup companies around technologies coming out of the federal laboratories.  Learn from the panelists as they discuss the latest updates from their organizations and how they can positively affect the success of such startups.

Presenters: 

• Mark Rohrbaugh, PhD, JD, Director, Office of Technology Transfer, National Institutes of Health
• Karina Edmonds, PhD, Technology Transfer Coordinator, Department of Energy
• Diana D. Tucker, Technology Licensing Specialist, Office of Technology Transfer, USDA-ARS
• Julie Lenzer Kirk, CEO, Path Forward Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship

Learn how the federal labs assist small business with the transition of technologies for government and industry. Discussion will include success stories that relate to small business initiatives with federal labs.

Panelists:

• Darryl Mitchell, NASA - GSFC
• Jeffrey Stempka, Business Development Consultant, First Link
• Brenda Pickett, Director of Small Business Programs, Office of Small Business Programs, Office of Naval Research

Taxus® Express 2TM Device:
Hans Feindt, Chief of the Monitoring and Enforcement Branch, NIH Office of Technology Transfer

• Partnership with NIH-NIA, Angiotech and Boston Scientific to develop the Paclitaxel-Eluting Coronary Stent System for replacing open-heart bypass surgery

ChoiceBatter®:
Rob Griesbach, Deputy Assistant Administrator, Office of Technology Transfer, USDA-ARS (presenting for Wayne Swann, CrispTek, Columbia, MD)

• Partnership USDA-ARS with CrispTek to develop a gluten-free and low oil-absorbing batter for fried foods. This is an example of how an ARS-conceived patent languished until an USDA-ARS Partnership Intermediary provided the complementary assets needed to successfully commercialize the invention.

Ten Years of Successes out of NASA Labs:
Daniel Lockney, Technology Transfer Program Executive, NASA Innovative Partnerships Office, Office of the Chief Technologist, NASA Headquarters

MED-SEG Software System for Processing Medical Imaging
Darryl Mitchell, Senior Technology Manager, NASA, Goddard Space Flight Center

• Collaborator: Bartron Medical Imaging, Inc.

Novel Alloy Used to Improve Coronary Stents
Paul Turner, Director, National Energy Technology Laboratory

• Collaborator: Boston Scientific Corporation

This session will highlight current legislative, policy and other items of interest to the federal technology transfer community; including a Tech Transfer Caucus recently established on Capitol Hill, a new report sponsored by the Administration baselining federal tech transfer activities, efforts of a White House Working Group on Innovation and Entrepreneurship focused on technology transfer, and how they may all interact to impact the path forward for those charged with implementing federal technology transfer policy.

Panelists

• Gary K. Jones, Washington, DC Representative, Federal Laboratory Consortium for Technology Transfer
• Richard Brenner, PhD, Agricultural Research Service
• Paul Zielinski, Director, Office of Industrial Partnerships, NIST

Paul Zielinski, NIST

Mojdeh Bahar, NIH Office of Techonology Transfer