What We Do

Posted April 10, 2012 - 10:05am

CTTC supports Vanderbilt researchers in commercializing intellectual property by providing a variety of services, including:

  • Evaluating commercial opportunities and market potential for new intellectual property
  • Filing and prosecuting patent applications and maintaining issued patents
  • Registering copyrights
  • Marketing intellectual property
  • Negotiating license agreements and options
  • Executing crucial agreements, including material transfer, confidentiality, interinstitutional, and research collaboration
  • Reviewing intellectual property language in sponsored research and clinical trial agreements
  • Monitoring licensee compliance
  • Tracking milestones and collecting royalties
  • Distributing payments to inventors and authors, labs, departments, centers, institutes, and schools

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Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center researchers have identified six subtypes of triple negative breast cancer which is often aggressive and difficult to treat. Now these cancer investigators are advancing their initial findings to clinical use by refining the molecular profiles for each cancer subtype, which will aid in the development of diagnostic tests for personalized therapy for patients.