The Johns Hopkins Technology Transfer Office (JHTT) is the University’s intellectual property administration center, serving Johns Hopkins researchers and inventors as a licensing, patent, and technology commercialization office and acting as an active liaison to parties interested in leveraging JHU research or materials for academic or corporate endeavors. SNNLive spoke with Wesley Blakeslee, Executive Director of Johns Hopkins Technology Transfer Office at the BioMaryland booth at the BIO International Convention 2012 in Boston, MA.
In this interview, Mr. Blakeslee discusses what the Technology Transfer office does at Johns Hopkins University, gives a brief overview of some of the exciting discoveries happening currently at JHU, and concludes by explaining why Maryland is the place to do business for the Healthcare and Life Sciences sector. He begins by stating, “The Technology Transfer office at Johns Hopkins is the office that commercializes the inventions of the University. Part of the University mission is to bring the benefits of discovery to the world, and that’s the part of the mission that we concentrate on because, as you know, at Universities, they make discoveries…when we get a technology from an inventor, we try to find a commercial partner that will take that technology, and turn it into a product that will benefit someone.”
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