On May 21st, Emory OTT held the latest installment of our biannual Breakfast Club meeting. Started in 2010, the office hosts an invite-only event during which our licensing associates briefly pitch a new innovation with especially great potential. Each 10-minute pitch is focused less on the technical merits of the particular technology, and more on the commercial opportunity enabled by that innovation. Attendees include venture capitalists, service providers, and entrepreneurs from the greater Atlanta area.
“We consider our Breakfast Club one of OTT’s signature and most successful programs” says Executive Director Todd Sherer. “It’s like a dating service for feature technologies. Our office is the one matchmaking Emory’s innovations with venture capitalists. Over the last three years, the feedback and connections made have been invaluable in advancing our technologies.”
The event is a great time to learn about the new technologies coming from Emory research labs, network, catch-up with the local biotech community, and grab some breakfast.
Yesterday, four members of our team presented four very different technologies –
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“Sugar Assassin” – An encapsulated dietary enzyme that reduces the dietary glucose absorbed by the GI tract during a meal. Ideal for weight loss. Click here for yesterday’s PowerPoint presentation and the non-confidential summary. Check out a video of the presentation.
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Glioma Drug Delivery – A nanoparticle-based system to deliver therapeutics to glioblastoma multiform cells. Click here for yesterday’s PowerPoint presentation and the non-confidential summary. Check out a video of the presentation.
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GIFT4 – A Protein Therapy for Melanoma – A recombinant fusion cytokine that activates host immune responses and suppresses tumor growth in vivo in a melanoma mouse model. Click here for yesterday’s PowerPoint presentation and the non-confidential summary. Check out a video of the presentation.
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Extended Use Ostomy Pouch Deodorizer – An absorbent pad primed with liquid deodorizer that significantly reduces the number of deodorizer applications necessary for an ostomy bag (from 8-10 times a day to only 2 times daily). Click here for yesterday’s PowerPoint presentation and the non-confidential summary. Check out a video of the presentation.
Stay tuned, video recordings of the presentations will be posted to our site soon. Information on past breakfast clubs can be found here.