Throughout September, CTTC will join technology transfer offices across the country in promoting research materials developed at academic research institutions. Launched two years ago by our colleagues in the Office of Technology Transfer at Emory University, September #researchtool Month is designed to bring awareness to the countless antibodies, proteins, peptides, buffers, solutions, cell lines, nucleic acids, plasmids, enzymes, animal models, assays, and numerous other research tools that are developed by the innovative academic researchers working day in and day out to find new ways to prevent, diagnose and treat disease.
Vanderbilt University currently has 110 research tools available for licensing and collaboration. The reason we license these materials is primarily to make them available to the broader research community and to ease processing of material transfer agreement requests. However, licensing materials also generates revenue for the university that is distributed to inventors, schools and departments, directly impacting future research efforts.
In the last three years, 13 Vanderbilt research materials have generated more than $800,000 for the Vanderbilt research community. Since CTTC first opening in 1991, research materials have generated more than $4.5 million in licensing revenue for Vanderbilt. While this certainly shows the impact these tools have on our own research community, it fails to capture the global impact that the research materials have had as they have assisted other researchers in their own research areas.
To learn more about Vanderbilt’s current list of research tools, browse our Research Tools Catalog or search through our online database.