Accelerating Practical Application of BioScience DiscoveryT-A Medical Device Case Study

BioScience Technology Transfer and Transformation

Jim Naughton

Do you have a bioscience invention-particularly do you have an invention for a medical device or scientific instrument but no idea of how to transform it into practical application? Would you patent a bioscience invention if you knew how? Do you know what it takes to interest a large corporation in your invention? Come to the 21 May 2002 meeting of Washington Computer Aided Surgery Society (WashCAS) at the National Library of Medicine on the campus of the NIH for a discussion of these issues. A case study of an invention for a medical device under development will highlight the talk. The case study uses the Accelerating Practical Application of BioScience DiscoveryT that Jim has used for transforming discovery into practical application.

Jim is currently organizing a WashCAS technology transformation committee and working group. He is the executive director of the Potomac BioScience Development Council. He founded and was the first chairman of the Northern Virginia Technology Council Entrepreneurial BioScience committee, and is the former head of the Northern Virginia chapter of the Virginia Biotechnology Association.