Academic Medical Product Development: An Emerging Alliance of Technology Transfer Organizations and the CTSA
Year: 2014
Type: article
Abstract: To bring the benefits of science more quickly to patient care, the NIH National Center Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS) supports programs that enhance the development, testing, and implementation of new medical products and procedures. The NCATS clinical and translational science award (CTSA) program is central to that mission; creating an academic home for clinical and translational science and supporting those involved in the discovery and development of new health-related inventions. The technology transfer Offices (TTO) of CTSA-funded universities can be important partners in the development process; facilitating the transfer of medical research to the commercial sector for further development and ultimately, distribution to patients. The Aggregating Intellectual Property (IP) Working Group (AWG) of the CTSA public private partnerships key function committee (PPP-KFC) developed a survey to explore how CTSA-funded institutions currently interface with their respective TTOs to support medical product development. The results suggest a range of relationships across institutions; approximately half have formal collaborative programs, but only a few have well-connected programs. Models of collaborations are described and provided as examples of successful CTSA/TTO partnerships that have increased the value of health-related inventions as measured by follow-on funding and industry involvement; either as a consulting partner or licensee.
DOI: 10.1111/cts.12175
Institutions: University of Washington, Institute of Translational Health Sciences, Benaroya Research Institute, University of Alabama at Birmingham, UAB Medicine, Weill Cornell Medicine, The University of Texas at San Antonio Health Science Center, University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School, University of Rochester
Language: English
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: green
Funders: University of Alabama, Institute of Translational Health Sciences, Georgia Clinical and Translational Science Alliance, National Institutes of Health, University of Illinois at Chicago, Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Alabama at Birmingham, National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences
Awards: G1125781002, G1376570166, G1389856746, G1568797915, G1638686622, G2966225693, Institute for Integration of Medicine & Science: A Partnership to Improve Health, University of Massachusetts Center for Clinical and Translational Science, Institute for Integration of Medicine & Science: A Partnership to Improve Health, The University of Rochester's Clinical and Translational Science Institute, UAB Center for Clinical and Translational Science (CCTS) UL1, G9000070302
OpenAlex ID: W1553628562