Join Fast Forward Medical Innovation for Research Commercialization 101: The Basics of Life Science Product Development, a fully virtual, two-part series that will teach the basics of life science research to aspiring academic innovators.

The series will provide a brief introduction to key commercialization concepts through expert instruction and interactive activities. Participants do not need to have an idea or product concept to register. Each session is approximately one hour.

Join the UMMS Office of Research for this event hosting dozens of exhibitors from labs and offices of the Medical School and across campus.

Be sure to visit Fast Forward Medical Innovation at table #35 to talk to us about U-M's wide variety of biomedical commercialization programs, funding opportunities, and business development support - and stay for a fun game and prizes!

There will be ice cream, popcorn, games, and lots of giveaways. Plus, the Office of Research is sponsoring grand prizes such as an iPad, gift cards, and money toward travel and professional development.

Made possible by the Michigan Economic Development Corporation, U-M Innovation Partnerships, and U-M Fast Forward Medical Innovation, MTRAC Awards offer mid-stage translational funding to enable biomedical researchers across the state of Michigan to develop innovative technologies with high commercial potential.

CLICK HERE for the RFP

This award aims to enhance the commercial potential of a technology owned by any Michigan-based non-profit. Applicants are anticipated to be 12-24 months from a University “exit” in the form of a license into a start-up company or to an existing revenue-generating company. Technologies must at least have an invention disclosure on file with the Institution’s Technology Transfer Office.

Looking for feedback and input on your biomedical innovation? Join the FFMI team for Innovation Studio, virtual office hours that give life science innovators of all levels the chance to address project needs, challenges, or questions.

Participants can get individual feedback on:

The Innovation Studio is available for 30-minute consultations via Zoom every third Tuesday of the month. The next available consultations will take place Tuesday, August 16, and Tuesday, September 20, between 2:00pm-3:30pm. Space is limited.

Questions? Email Jon Servoss, FFMI Director of Commercialization Education.

The July 2022 issue of the Learning Health Systems (LHS) journal is now available online. LHS is an international, open access, peer-reviewed journal published in collaboration with the University of Michigan and affiliated with Mobilizing Computable Biomedical Knowledge and Academy Health. The journal aims to advance the interdisciplinary area of learning health systems by promoting research, scholarship, and dialogue focused on theory, complex issues, conceptual syntheses, educational models, solution designs, and system evaluations designed to achieve continuous rapid improvement in health and healthcare and to transform organizational practice.

Would your research program benefit from an expensive new instrument? Or do you need to upgrade outdated equipment? Would that equipment (that costs more than most houses) change what you can do in your lab? Not sure how to pull together grant applications to get all the new bells and whistles?

Research Development and Proposal Services will host a webinar on applying for major instrumentation grants. It will cover both the NIH S10 and NSF Major Research Instrumentation (MRI) funding mechanisms. Presenters Jill Jividen, Ph.D., and Rachel Wallace, Ph.D., will cover application requirements, best practices, common pitfalls, suggested timelines, and more, with plenty of time for questions and discussion.

To better navigate the complexities of the U-M biomedical research enterprise, visit the Research Project Lifecycle. This interactive tool provides an overview of the resources available to you, not only within the Medical School Office of Research but also across the University of Michigan.