{"id":332261,"date":"2010-02-17T11:56:45","date_gmt":"2010-02-17T16:56:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.technologytransfertactics.com\/content\/?p=5914"},"modified":"2010-02-17T11:56:45","modified_gmt":"2010-02-17T16:56:45","slug":"novaucd-reports-seven-spinoffs-in-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/332261","title":{"rendered":"NovaUCD reports seven spinoffs in 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NovaUCD, the TTO responsible for the commercialization of IP developed at Ireland&#8217;s University College Dublin (UCD), reported 85 invention disclosures in 2009 &#8212; a 60% increase over the 53 inventions reported in 2008. In addition, seven companies were spun out of UCD in 2009, including:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Aremon, established to provide validation of clinically relevant and qualified diagnostic, prognostic, and predictive biomarkers, initially in the areas of neurodegeneration and cancer.<\/li>\n<li>BioPlastech, which is commercializing a process to convert waste materials to a biodegradable plastic.<\/li>\n<li>Capstan Healthcare, a veterinary health care company that provides technology and product development services to the veterinary pharmaceutical market.<\/li>\n<li>Crop Research, which evaluates the efficacy of agrochemicals for use in agriculture, particularly the use of fungicides to control crop diseases.<\/li>\n<li>Darius Medical, which is developing a low-cost, non-invasive medical device for early detection of coronary artery disease.<\/li>\n<li>Equinome, which is developing genetic tests to optimize decision-making in the breeding and racing of thoroughbred horses and has launched a genetic test to identify the optimum racing distance for individual Thoroughbred horses. <\/li>\n<li>Future Buildings Consulting (trading as ERG Consulting), which provides specialty services in sustainable building design and construction to the Irish and European building industries.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In addition, NovaUCD filed 47 patent applications in 2009 &#8212; a 25% increase over the previous year. &#8220;We should recognize that the conversion to license deals, new companies, and much needed employment takes time,&#8221; says Pat Frain, director of NovaUCD. &#8220;One major issue is the need to ensure that early-stage campus companies have access to finance.&#8221; In that respect, the international success achieved by UCD companies is particularly important, he adds, citing the $60 million sale of NovaUCD spinout ChangingWorlds to U.S. technology firm Amdocs, the \u20ac6 million investment in BiancaMed led by pan-European VC firm Seventure Partners.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.biotechnologyireland.com\/pooled\/articles\/BF_NEWSART\/view.asp?Q=BF_NEWSART_317767\" >Biotechnology Ireland<\/a><\/p>\n<p><br class=\"spacer_\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NovaUCD, the TTO responsible for the commercialization of IP developed at Ireland&#8217;s University College Dublin (UCD), reported 85 invention disclosures in 2009 &#8212; a 60% increase over the 53 inventions reported in 2008. In addition, seven companies were spun out of UCD in 2009, including: Aremon, established to provide validation of clinically relevant and qualified [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":67,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-332261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/67"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=332261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332261\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=332261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=332261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=332261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}