Science career seminar, Invent-A-Thon presentations are today

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OMAHA, Neb. (Oct. 26, 2018)—Innovation Week concludes today with two events, a seminar about alternates careers in science and final presentation for a 3D printing competition.

First, Prabhavathi Fernandes, PhD, will present a seminar entitled “Moving into the pharmaceutical industry—Can the dark side be bright for you?” A 35-year veteran of the pharmaceutical industry, Dr. Fernandes is expected to discuss alternate careers science in a one-hour presentation in the Durham Research Center I auditorium, beginning at 2 p.m.

Finally, Innovation Week concludes later that evening with the Invent-A-Thon at 5 p.m. in room 1005 in the Michael F. Sorrell Center. The Invent-A-Thon is a judged competition among teams of local high school students who will be tasked in a week-long event to solve an actual healthcare problem using 3D printing and design. Teams will pitch their ideas and 3D-printed prototypes in final presentations, followed by a short reception.

Innovation Week is a series of events hosted by UNeMed to celebrate and honor the innovations and discoveries at UNMC and UNO each year.

Previous events this week included a Kick-Off event on Monday, and the 12th annual Research Innovation Awards Banquet yesterday.

At the Awards ceremony, UNeMed recognized UNO’s entire Biomechanics department as the 2018 Innovator of the Year, and presented co-inventors Catherine Gebhart, PhD, and Varun Kesherwani, PhD, with the Most Promising New Invention of 2018 award. Also, UNeTech, the University’s accelerator and incubator program recognized Centese, Inc. as its first-ever Startup of the Year.

Learn more about all Innovation Week events, including the award winners, at https://www.unemed.com/innovation-week.

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Innovation Awards are tonight

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OMAHA, Neb. (Oct. 25, 2018)—Innovation Week continues tonight with the 12th Annual Research Innovation Awards Banquet at 5 p.m. in Michael F. Sorrell Center.

The event is invitation-only.

The awards honor all UNMC and UNO students, faculty and staff who disclosed a new invention, received a U.S. patent or were a contributor on a licensed technology. UNeMed will also announce the 2018 Innovator of the Year and the Most Promising New Invention of 2018.

UNeTech, the university’s incubator and accelerator program will also announce its first-ever “Startup of the Year.”

On Monday, UNeMed hosted a Kick-Off event, and two more Innovation Week events still remain. Both are free and open to all.

First, Prabhavathi Fernandes, PhD, will present a seminar entitled “Moving into the pharmaceutical industry—Can the dark side be bright for you?” A 35-year veteran of the pharmaceutical industry, Dr. Fernandes is expected to discuss alternate careers science in a one-hour presentation in the Durham Research Center I auditorium, beginning at 2 p.m.

Finally, Innovation Week concludes later that evening with the Invent-A-Thon at 5 p.m. in room 1005 in the Michael F. Sorrell Center. The Invent-A-Thon is a judged competition among teams of local high school students who will be tasked in a week-long event to solve an actual healthcare problem using 3D printing and design. Teams will pitch their ideas and 3D-printed prototypes in final presentations, followed by a short reception.

Innovation Week is a series of events hosted by UNeMed to celebrate and honor the innovations and discoveries at UNMC and UNO each year.

Learn more about all Innovation Week events at https://www.unemed.com/innovation-week.

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Innovation Week 2018 launches with successful Kickoff

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UNeMed’s annual Innovation Week opened Monday, Oct. 22, 2018, with its “Kickoff” event in the atrium of UNMC’s Durham Research Center. UNeMed staffers greeted guests and handed out free goodies, including T-shirts, doughnuts and first-aid kits.

OMAHA, Neb. (Oct. 22, 2018)—Innovation Week officially began this morning with UNeMed’s Kickoff event in the Durham Research Center atrium at UNMC.

UNeMed staff unloaded free T-shirts, coffee, doughnuts, first aid kits and copies of the 2018 annual report, while meeting and mingling with guests.

Jason Nickla, UNeMed’s Director of Intellectual Property, hands out free T-shirts during Monday’s Kickoff.

Innovation Week is a series of events hosted by UNeMed to celebrate and honor the innovations and discoveries at UNMC and UNO each year.

Innovation Week continues Thursday, Oct. 25, with the 12th annual Research Innovation Awards Banquet, at 5 p.m. in the Stanley Truhlsen Events Center of the Michael F. Sorrell Center. The Awards ceremony is an invitation-only event where an Innovator of the Year and the 2018 Most Promising New Invention will be named.

Innovation Week 2018 concludes on Friday, Oct. 26, with two free and open events.

First, Prabhavathi Fernandes, PhD, will present a seminar entitled “Moving into the pharmaceutical industry—Can the dark side be bright for you?” A 35-year veteran of the pharmaceutical industry, Dr. Fernandes is expected to discuss alternate careers science in a one-hour presentation in the Durham Research Center I auditorium, beginning at 2 p.m.

Finally, Innovation Concludes later that evening with the Invent-A-Thon at 5 p.m. in room 1005 in the Michael F. Sorrell Center. The Invent-A-Thon is a judged competition among teams of local high school students who will be tasked in a week-long event to solve an actual healthcare problem using 3D printing and design. Teams will pitch their ideas and 3D-printed prototypes in final presentations, followed by a short reception.

Learn more about all Innovation Week events at https://www.unemed.com/innovation-week.

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UNeMed releases 2018 annual report

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Nebraska (Oct. 22, 2018)—UNeMed released today its 2018 annual report.

The report details UNeMed’s key metrics, and highlights notable achievements during the fiscal year ending in 2018.

In an open letter to readers, UNeMed President and CEO Michael Dixon, PhD, notes the addition of innovation and discoveries from the University of Nebraska at Omaha as the most important change during the year. UNeMed has been the technology transfer and commercialization office for the University of Nebraska Medical Center since 1991. During that time, UNeMed had occasionally worked with UNO inventors, but a new services agreement in December 2017 made UNeMed the official tech transfer office for all UNO inventions and discoveries.

That change had a dramatic impact on UNeMed’s key metrics, as Dixon pointed out in the annual report:

“In a little more than six months, UNO’s innovative faculty, students and staff submitted 27 new inventions. Remarkable,” he said.

Michael DixonDixon also highlighted the collaborative work that UNO and UNMC researchers are developing, including work on healthcare related software, vaccines and biomechanical applications.

“It’s clear to me that bringing UNeMed and UNO together was one great leap toward helping two campuses scale barriers to greater summits and more fruitful collaborations in the near and distant future,” he said.

The letter also reports UNeMed’s recent successes with licensing patented technologies. Dixon placed particular emphasis on securing license agreements for 15 of 21 technologies that were awarded U.S. patents in 2018.

“That is significant,” he said. “It means that more than 70 percent of those protected technologies have intense market interest…In a broader context, I’m proud to report that our overall patent portfolio is 67 percent licensed to industrial partners.”

The annual report also highlights UNeMed’s educational activities, including its annual Tech Transfer Boot Camp program and the 2017 Innovation Week festivities. The report also details all of UNeMed’s important metrics, and covered UNO’s Capstone program, a story that was featured on UNeMed.com earlier this summer.

Finally, several key technologies currently available for licensing are also included in the report.

The report can be viewed online, and printed copies are also available. Contact UNeMed to receive a free printed copy.

2018 Annual Report by on Scribd

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Overground gang draw line between authors and inventors

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OMAHA, Neb. (January 7, 2019)—UNeMed’s tech transfer podcast, “Innovation Overground,” recently released a new episode titled, “Authors, Inventors, students and bosses.”

In this episode, Overground hosts Joe Runge, Tyler Scherr and Charlie Litton, discuss the tricky area of authorship versus inventorship. The crew also talks about Litton’s beef with his brother’s boss.

The episode also takes a closer look at WeChart a training program for hospital charting programs.

Innovation Overground was created to help promote academic innovation and the technology transfer and commercialization efforts at the University of Nebraska and beyond. The podcast intends to examine what it takes to advance academic inventions and discoveries beyond the research bench and into people’s lives as “actual things on a shelf.”

New episodes are published on Mondays, and are available on most podcast channels, including Google Play Music, iTunes, iHeartMusic, Podomatic, Spotify and Spreaker.

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Innovation Week kicks off today

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OMAHA, Neb. (Oct. 22, 2018)—Innovation Week officially begins this morning when UNeMed staffers host a kick-off event in the Durham Research Center atrium from 9-11 a.m.

The Innovation Week Kick-Off will feature free goodies, T-shirts and a chance to mingle with UNeMed staff. Complimentary coffee and a free doughnut will also be provided all attendees, as long as supplies last.

UNeMed opened 2017 Innovation Week with its annual Kick-Off event on Monday, Oct. 23, giving away free T-shirts, esspressos, first-aid kits and other goodies. UNeMed is planning a repeat for today

Innovation Week is a series of events hosted by UNeMed to celebrate and honor the innovations and discoveries at UNMC and UNO each year.

Innovation Week continues Thursday, Oct. 25, with the 12th annual Research Innovation Awards Banquet, at 5 p.m. in the Stanley Truhlsen Events Center of the Michael F. Sorrell Center. The Awards ceremony is an invitation-only event where an Innovator of the Year and the 2018 Most Promising New Invention will be named.

Innovation Week 2018 concludes on Friday, Oct. 26, with two free and open events.

First, Prabhavathi Fernandes, PhD, will present a seminar entitled “Moving into the pharmaceutical industry—Can the dark side be bright for you?” A 35-year veteran of the pharmaceutical industry, Dr. Fernandes is expected to discuss alternate careers science in a one-hour presentation in the Durham Research Center I auditorium, beginning at 2 p.m.

Finally, Innovation Concludes later that evening with the Invent-A-Thon at 5 p.m. in room 1005 in the Michael F. Sorrell Center. The Invent-A-Thon is a judged competition among teams of local high school students who will be tasked in a week-long event to solve an actual healthcare problem using 3D printing and design. Teams will pitch their ideas and 3D-printed prototypes in final presentations, followed by a short reception.

Learn more about all Innovation Week events at https://www.unemed.com/innovation-week.

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Former pharma exec will lead Innovation Week seminar

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OMAHA, Neb. (October 18, 2018)—A former heavyweight in the pharmaceutical industry will highlight UNeMed’s events next week. Prabhavathi Fernandes, PhD, is expected to cover alternate careers in science with particular attention to the pharmaceutical industry.

Her talk is scheduled for Friday, Oct. 26, in the Durham Research Center I auditorium, beginning at 2 p.m. The title of her one-hour presentation is “Moving into the pharmaceutical industry—Can the dark side be bright for you?”

The seminar is part of UNeMed’s Innovation Week, a celebration of the innovative research and discoveries at the University of Nebraska Medical Center and the University of Nebraska at Omaha. UNeMed is the technology transfer and commercialization office for UNMC and UNO.

Dr. Fernandes has more than 35 years of experience in pharmaceutical discovery, development and management. She held executive leadership positions with the Bristol-Myers Squibb Pharmaceutical Research Institute, and at Drug Discovery, Abbott Laboratories as the leader of Anti-Infective Discovery.

At the Squibb Institute for Medical Research she conducted key research on the first monobactam antibiotic, aztreonam. At Abbott, she was directly involved in the development of clarithromycin, which achieved more than $1 billion in sales.

Before retiring in 2016, she led Cempra to a successful Initial Public Offering, and has helped raise more than $500 million for the company.

Dr. Fernandes has served on the U.S. Congressional Panel for Assessment of Impact of Antibiotic Resistant Bacteria. In July she was named Chairperson of the National Biodefense Science Board for the U.S. government.

Innovation Week begins Monday, Oct. 22, at 9 a.m. during the Kick-Off event, an open house where guests can grab a free T-shirt, coffee and other goodies in the DRC I atrium.

Innovation Week’s major event is the Research Innovation Awards Banquet on Thursday, Oct. 25, beginning at 5 p.m. The awards honor all the UNMC and UNO faculty, students and staff who disclosed a new invention, received a U.S. patent or were inventors on a licensed technology during the previous fiscal year. This year, UNeMed will announce the 2018 Innovator of the Year, and name the Most Promising New Invention of 2018.

The Innovation Awards is an invitation-only event.

Finally, UNeMed is also co-sponsoring the Invent-A-Thon, a judged competition among teams of local high school students. Teams will be tasked in a week-long event to solve an actual healthcare problem using 3D printing and design. The winning team will receive an award and prize.

Teams will pitch their ideas and 3D-printed prototypes in final presentations on Friday, Oct. 26 at 5 p.m. in room 1005 of the Michael F. Sorrell Center at UNMC. That event is also free and open to all, and will be followed by a short reception.

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Innovation Overground dispels myth of tech transfer offices picking winners

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OMAHA, Neb. (December 17, 2018)—UNeMed’s tech transfer podcast, “Innovation Overground,” recently released a new episode titled, “Picking winners.”

In this episode, Overground hosts Joe Runge, Tyler Scherr and Charlie Litton, discuss how technology transfer offices like UNeMed can pick the winners from the losers. The big secret (spoiler alert!) is that tech transfer offices don’t pick winning technologies: The market does. The crew also talk about some of the surprising results of selling inventions, even the ones that didn’t seem very marketable.

The episode also featured a couple new inventions, including a hemodialysis catheter that could save patients thousands in addition to eliminating the risk associated with replacing clogged catheters.

Innovation Overground was created to help promote academic innovation and the technology transfer and commercialization efforts at the University of Nebraska and beyond. The podcast intends to examine what it takes to advance academic inventions and discoveries beyond the research bench and into people’s lives as “actual things on a shelf.”

New episodes are published on Mondays, and are available on most podcast channels, including Google Play Music, iTunes, iHeartMusic, Podomatic, Spotify and Spreaker.

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Podcasters: Failure can be a good thing

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OMAHA, Neb. (December 10, 2018)—UNeMed’s tech transfer podcast, “Innovation Overground,” recently released a new episode titled, “Spectacular fails and cautionary tales.”

In this episode, Overground hosts Joe Runge, Tyler Scherr and Charlie Litton, discuss what startups learn in failure, and that often the best trait in an entrepreneur is the experience of having tried and failed. The crew also talk about UNeTech, the University of Nebraska’s incubator and accelerator program.

Innovation Overground was created to help promote academic innovation and the technology transfer and commercialization efforts at the University of Nebraska and beyond. The podcast intends to examine what it takes to advance academic inventions and discoveries beyond the research bench and into people’s lives as “actual things on a shelf.”

New episodes are published on Mondays, and are available on most podcast channels, including Google Play Music, iTunes, iHeartMusic, Podomatic, Spotify and Spreaker.

Use the below links to subscribe, listen to previous episodes and learn more.

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Overground crew declare future belongs to biomechanics

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OMAHA, Neb. (December 3, 2018)—UNeMed’s tech transfer podcast, “Innovation Overground,” recently released a new episode titled, “Biomechanics is the future.”

In this episode, Overground hosts Joe Runge, Tyler Scherr and Charlie Litton, discuss how biomechanics can be used to make affordable prosthetics for children, revolutionize the treatment of chronic obstructive pulmonary disorder, and the accurate diagnosis of concussions. The crew also talk about exploding shoes, which—it turns out—serve a really good purpose.

The episode also featured 3D-printed prosthetics, a COPD platform and a device to help researchers study falls.

Innovation Overground was created to help promote academic innovation and the technology transfer and commercialization efforts at the University of Nebraska and beyond. The podcast intends to examine what it takes to advance academic inventions and discoveries beyond the research bench and into people’s lives as “actual things on a shelf.”

New episodes are published on Mondays, and are available on most podcast channels, including Google Play Music, iTunes, iHeartMusic, Podomatic, Spotify and Spreaker.

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Concussion platform returns to the Overground, tech transfer podcast to take holiday breaks

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OMAHA, Neb. (November 19, 2018)—UNeMed’s tech transfer podcast, “Innovation Overground,” is taking a one-week hiatus for the holiday, and are re-broadcasting a popular episode relevant for the season: How biomechanics can save football.

In the episode, Overground hosts Joe Runge, Tyler Scherr and Charlie Litton, discuss a new concussion detection platform that began at the University of Nebraska at Omaha’s biomechanics program. The crew also talk about how good ideas become great inventions through better collaborations.

The episode featured the startup company Avert.

New episodes will return Monday, Nov. 26. The Overground is also planning a two-week break during the Christmas holiday season, and will re-air previous episodes on Dec. 24 and Dec. 31. New episodes will again resume on Monday, Jan. 7, 2019.

Innovation Overground was created to help promote academic innovation and the technology transfer and commercialization efforts at the University of Nebraska and beyond. The podcast intends to examine what it takes to advance academic inventions and discoveries beyond the research bench and into people’s lives as “actual things on a shelf.”

New episodes are published on Mondays, and are available on most podcast channels, including Google Play Music, iTunes, iHeartMusic, Podomatic, Spotify and Spreaker.

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Innovation Awards is Oct. 25, Gold to deliver keynote

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Correction (Oct. 18, 2018): Text amended to reflect programming change. Due to unforeseen circumstances, University of President Hank Bounds is unable to attend. UNMC/UNO Chancellor Jeffrey Gold, M.D., is now scheduled to deliver the keynote.

OMAHA, Neb. (Sept. 27, 2017)—The 12th annual Innovation Week kicks off Monday, Oct. 22, to celebrate and recognize world-class research and discovery at the University of Nebraska Medical Center and the University of Nebraska at Omaha.

All events are free and open to the public, but the Awards Banquet is an invitation-only event. Further details can be found on the Innovation Week page.

Hosted by UNMC’s and UNO’s technology transfer and commercialization office, UNeMed, Innovation Week begins with the Kick-Off at 9 a.m. Monday, Oct. 22, in the Durham Research Center atrium. The Kick-Off is an open house where guests can meet and mingle with UNeMed staff and get a free UNeMed T-shirt, coffee and other goodies.

Other Innovation Week events include the Innovation Awards, an Invent-A-Thon and an expert seminar about moving from academia to the industrial workplace.

Dr. Gold

Innovation Week’s main event is on Thursday, Oct. 25, when UNeMed hosts the Research Innovation Awards Banquet. Following a keynote address from Jeffrey Gold, M.D., Chancellor of the University of Nebraska Medical Center and University of Nebraska at Omaha, the ceremony will recognize UNMC and UNO inventors who were issued a new patent, licensed a technology, or developed a new invention over the previous year. UNeMed will also present special awards for the “Most Promising New Invention” of 2018 and the “Innovator of the Year.”

The Awards will be at the Michael F. Sorrell Center in the Truhlsen Campus Events Center beginning at 5 p.m. Contact UNeMed to request an invitation.

Dr. Fernandes

Innovation Week concludes Friday, Oct. 26, with two events, beginning with the seminar, “Moving into the Pharmaceutical Industry—Can the dark side be bright for you?” It will be presented by Prabhavathi Fernandes, PhD, who will discuss the path that led her through an impressive 35-year career in pharmaceutical discovery and development—which included leadership roles at Bristol-Myers Squibb and Abbott Laboratories.

Her talk will begin at 2 p.m. in the Durham Research Center auditorium.

Innovation Week wraps up later that evening when the 3D Invent-A-Thon concludes with its final presentations. Sponsored by the McGoogan Library of Medicine, the 3D Invent-A-Thon is a week-long competition among teams of area high school students who will attempt to solve a real-world healthcare problem using the latest in 3D printing and design. The teams will present their solutions to a panel of judges on Friday, Oct. 26, at 5 p.m. in the Linder Reading Room at the Michael F. Sorrell Center. Prizes will be awarded the winners, and a short reception will follow.

 

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Podcast: You can’t patent you, obviously

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OMAHA, Neb. (November 26, 2018)—UNeMed’s tech transfer podcast, “Innovation Overground,” recently released a new episode titled, “You can’t patent you, obviously.”

In this episode, Overground hosts Joe Runge, Tyler Scherr and Charlie Litton, discuss the “icky” issues of gene patents and personalized medicine. The crew also find a way to bring Michael Crichton into the mix.

The episode also featured a new blood test that screens for the kind of unstable coronary artery disease that can lead to a sudden (and often lethal) heart attacks.

Innovation Overground was created to help promote academic innovation and the technology transfer and commercialization efforts at the University of Nebraska and beyond. The podcast intends to examine what it takes to advance academic inventions and discoveries beyond the research bench and into people’s lives as “actual things on a shelf.”

New episodes are published on Mondays, and are available on most podcast channels, including Google Play Music, iTunes, iHeartMusic, Podomatic, Spotify and Spreaker.

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Innovation Overground examines the value of relationships in tech transfer

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OMAHA, Neb. (Sept. 17, 2018)—UNeMed’s tech transfer podcast, “Innovation Overground,” published this morning its latest episode, “Match-Making.”

In the latest episode, Overground hosts Joe Runge, Tyler Scherr and Charlie Litton, discuss what happens when you lock the right people in a windowless room for a few hours. The crew also talks about what happens when curated relationships help open doors to new collaborations and previously unknown opportunities.

The episode also featured an invention or two, including MedLens and a new blood test for coronary artery disease.

Innovation Overground was created to help promote academic innovation and the technology transfer and commercialization efforts at the University of Nebraska and beyond. The podcast intends to examine what it takes to advance academic inventions and discoveries beyond the research bench and into people’s lives as “actual things on a shelf.”

New episodes are published on Mondays, and are available on most podcast channels, including Google Play Music, iTunes, iHeartMusic, Podomatic, Spotify and Spreaker.

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UNeMed podcasters look at the ‘long game’

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OMAHA, Neb. (Sept. 10, 2018)—UNeMed’s tech transfer podcast, “Innovation Overground,” published this morning its latest episode, “The Long Game.”

In the latest episode, Overground hosts Joe Runge, Tyler Scherr and Charlie Litton, discuss Joe’s favorite thing: the long game of commercializing university inventions. Joe then recounts the story of the Intuitool, an innovative articulating laparoscopic surgical tool.

Innovation Overground was created to help promote academic innovation and the technology transfer and commercialization efforts at the University of Nebraska and beyond. The podcast intends to examine what it takes to advance academic inventions and discoveries beyond the research bench and into people’s lives as “actual things on a shelf.”

New episodes are published on Mondays, and are available on most podcast channels, including Google Play Music, iTunes, iHeartMusic, Podomatic, Spotify and Spreaker.

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Innovation Overground solves* concussion problem

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OMAHA, Neb. (Sept. 3, 2018)—UNeMed’s tech transfer podcast, “Innovation Overground,” published this morning its latest episode, “Biomechanics can save football.”

In the latest episode, Overground hosts Joe Runge, Tyler Scherr and Charlie Litton, discuss how good inventions become great through better collaboration. Joe tells the story of Avert, a startup that simplifies biomechanics to better detect and manage concussions.

The episode featured a UNMC startup company, Avert.

Innovation Overground was created to help promote academic innovation and the technology transfer and commercialization efforts at the University of Nebraska and beyond. The podcast intends to examine what it takes to advance academic inventions and discoveries beyond the research bench and into people’s lives as “actual things on a shelf.”

New episodes are published on Mondays, and are available on most podcast channels, including Google Play Music, iTunes, iHeartMusic, Podomatic, Spotify and Spreaker.

Use the below links to subscribe, listen to previous episodes and learn more.

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