The CTSC can help move your ideas and inventions into development and commercialization. We educate through special training seminars and consultation on how to commercialize your discoveries. You can find more information about the courses in the Training Catalog. New workshops specific to Team Science and Commercialization started in April 2022, details and a link to registration are below.
We also provide information on the latest news in technology transfer so you can learn what it takes to get SBIR/STTR awards or other funding, stay up-to-date on regulations and find out what others are doing with technology transfer.
We help you identify research and development partners and opportunities for collaboration through meetings, presentations and forums. We support tech transfer through pilot funding and consultations on institutional and federal regulatory and compliance processes.
The HSC Office of Research has compiled information for more information and links to external resources on how SBIR/STTR funding opportunities.
CTSC regulatory experts are available to assist you in navigating HSC Research Policies and Guidelines, or will be able to help connect you to the right office at HSC for any questions you may have.
The CTSC’s Regulatory Support Unit offers many resources for navigating federal regulatory processes, including online Investigational New Drug (IND) and Investigational Device Exemption (IDE) training and IND/IDE personalized consultation. Please contact Sherry Sazesh, Regulatory Affairs Manager, for more information.
Synergy Meetings bring together basic, clinical, and community-engaged researchers from many disciplines to advance translational projects from bench to bedside. These monthly meetings are an opportunity to learn more about ongoing studies, clinical and translational methods, resources available through the CTSC, and opportunities for collaboration. Each meeting is focused on a specific topic and includes presentations from invited speakers.
The CTSC Biodesign Initiative brings together biomedical researchers, clinicians, engineers, and other specialists to develop commercially viable medical devices that will greatly impact the everyday lives of people living with diseases and health conditions. During facilitated brainstorming sessions, participants devise solutions to existing barriers and problems in current clinical practices. Successful teams are encouraged to submit a proposal for CTSC pilot funding, which provides access and financial support to use CTSC’s translational technologies and clinical facilities.
CTSC’s Biodesign initiative is modeled after Stanford University’s Biodesign Process. To get involved with Biodesign at UNM, please contact Dr. Eric Prossnitz.
The CTSC offers New Technology and Commercialization pilot awards twice yearly.
The purpose of this RFA is to support innovative, high-risk/high-reward pilot projects to produce preliminary data for competitive NIH proposals and for the development of new technology and corporate relationships to move a project toward successful commercialization. Most awards will be expected to see NIH funding through an SBIR/STTR mechanism. Technologies should help to fulfill the CTSC mission of developing novel approaches to translational research and promote and support the "bench to bedside to community and practice and back" goal of the NIH.
The CTSC’s Regulatory Support Unit offers a range of support to meet institutional processes and federal regulations.
CTSC Clinical & Translational Technologies
The CTSC Clinical & Translational Technologies supports commercialization by facilitating interaction between technology experts and translational investigators and providing access to state-of-the-art lab equipment, testing services and specialized assistance for protocol/assay development.
STC.UNM facilitates intellectual property disclosure filing and patent submission for all UNM investigators.
NMBio is a catalyst for bioscience industry acceleration in New Mexico, providing a forum for information exchange, developing initiatives to enhance business success and bioscience education, helping establish collaboration and serving as a voice of the industry to state, federal and local governments.
STC.UNM (formerly known as the Science & Technology Corporation @ UNM) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit corporation formed and owned entirely by the University of New Mexico Board of Regents (UNM), with an independent board of directors. Its mission is to support the University of New Mexico and its partners as the source for innovation management and commercial development. STC files invention disclosure forms and patents for UNM faculty, staff and students.
Located on UNM's south campus at the Science & Technology Park in Albuquerque, STC has proximity to research and development and laboratory facilities and other technology based companies, many of which are the creation of STC. STC also collaborates with researchers at New Mexico's two national labs, Sandia National Laboratories and Los Alamos National Laboratory.
New Mexico Angels’ mission is to provide opportunities where its members can obtain outstanding financial returns by investing in early-stage companies in New Mexico and the Southwest Region and accelerating them to market leadership. We work with the venture capital community and angel groups in the Southwestern area.
New workshop sessions launched in April 2022 to support PI's and Jr reserachers learn about the processes and resources available for a commercialization effort. More details are available in the CTSC Training Catalog pages.
This two-hour orientation session introduces UNM staff, faculty, and students to the opportunities and institutional requirements that go into commercialization for academics. Sessions are on first Thursdays from 10am – 12pm. Click here to register.
This two-hour session focused on commercialization of academic research equips participants with understanding of funding sources and the tools to develop their initial grant or pitch message. Recommended for participants who have completed Commercialization 101. Sessions are on second Thursdays from 10am – 12pm. Register on line.
This 90-minute workshop is recommended for anyone, but especially for existing teams and team leaders. Session are on third Thursdays from 1pm – 2:30 pm. Registration available on line.
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Cite the Grant: This project is supported by an award from the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences, National Institutes of Health under grant number UL1TR001449. Link the Grant: To your publication in NCBI My Bibliography (Pandhi & Campen, PIs) |