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OttawaMEDTECH Breakfast
Leveraging the NIH and NRC for Research, Development
and Commercialization
September 9, 2008
Sheraton Ottawa Hotel
150 Albert Street
7:45 Registration, Networking and Breakfast
8:30 Opening Remarks
David McInnes, Vice-President, International Relations, MDS Nordion;
Chair, OttawaMEDTECH
8:40 Leveraging the NIH and NRC for Research, Development and Commercialization
Ajoy Prabhu, Marketing Group Leader, Office of Technology Transfer, National Institutes of Health
(Bethesda, MD)
Judith Young, Executive Director, Central Business Support, National Research Council (Ottawa,
ON)
· How do the NIH and NRC enable innovation and competitiveness?
· How are the NIH and NRC commercializing their own research?
· What are the benefits of collaborating with the NRC and NIH?
· What capabilities do the NIH and NRC offer to industry?
· How do businesses access these capabilities?
· What steps are the NRC and NIH taking to reach out to external players for the
commercialization of their research?
· What capabilities do your institutes have that would be of interest to medical technology
companies?
· How are businesses matched up with scientists and engineers?
· Case studies of collaborations which have successfully led to the commercialization of a product
· What is the protocol with respect to intellectual property and external collaborations?
· What novel approaches have the NIH and NRC taken to better facilitate industry collaboration?
· How should research institutions and business work together in the future?
10:00 Question and Answer Session
10:30 Seminar Ends