Pathfinder Therapeutics gains ally

Pathfinder Therapeutics, the image-guided surgery technology firm that was spawned by VU School of Engineering and Medicine research, has agreed to integrate its offerings with those of NeuroLogica, release here.

VU entrepreneurs?

Vanderbilt University students have, to some extent, taken tech commercialization and entrepreneurship into their own hands, witness this spring's TechVenture Challenge. Read about it here.

Startup or Job?

Entrepreneurship isn't for the faint-hearted, and sometimes a job's a better course. Read about this Nashville panel's discussion here.

New TN VC Council?

Stuart McWhorter's exploring creating a new VC statewide group.. There's apt to be less TNInvestco info published... Dan Marcum's creating The Launch Pad in Tullahoma.. and much more in the latest NewsBits roundup right here.

TN needs visionaries

All the patents in the world won't create jobs if they aren't investable and transformed into goods and services through commercialization - that seems to be the message from Friday's panel of ORNL, VU and other experts. TN has some catching-up to do with respect to its population of serial entrepreneurs and visionary leaders, too. Read about it here.

VU Nanotech

Nanotech: Science writers with Vanderbilt University and Oak Ridge National Laboratory provide an update on nanotech lessons learned from Nature. Related: Our recent report on VU science writers.

VU spreads science news

Bill Snyder and David Salisbury had long careers in journalism before their stop of Vanderbilt, but inside the institution, covering science and technology keeps their fires lighted. More on them here.

VU tech transfer chief

Vanderbilt University has reportedly named a new chief of technology transfer and commercialization, our story's here.

Vanderbilt Vc's?

Vanderbilt University is not only reorganizing and staffing-up its tech transfer unit, but has created an advisory committee that includes VC's and entrepreneurs. Read more here.

NewsBits, April 4, 2011

Lots to think about: TripRaiser crowd-funding's launch.. a role for Culp's Delegator.. Phil Pfeffer's advice.. university initiatives.. BioHealing's IPO.. Green initiatives and much, much more, right here.

VU tech transfer leadership

As VNC reported earlier this week, Vanderbilt University is recruiting a leader for the newly created position of assistant vice chancellor for technology transfer and commercialization, with Korn Ferry's Atlanta's office doing the search. A source tells VNC the University is in discussion with several strong candidates, but that later-arrivers are welcomed, up to a point. VU's office of tech transfer and enterprise development has been led quite a while by Chris McKinney (left). Good chance the new AVC will be inplace by 1 July 2011. VU OTTED has made a visible push the past decade, but increased Administration emphasis on leveraging campus IP -- consistent with global trends -- is likely to benefit city, society and University.

NewsBits, Feb. 28

VU's looking for a leader for tech transfer and commercialization.. some TNInvestco fund managers speak out.. Axial Exchange, and open-source health IT player, eyes Nashville.. SimCenter will be marketing its software.. Atiba goes NooYawk.. and much more here.

Massey leads University-Business alliance

Scott Massey, long a figure in creative and educational circles in Nashville, is director of the quietly launching Cumberland Center, which aims to unit University, Business and elected officials at the C-level intersection of their roles. Read the VNC story here.

Vanderbilt, Lockheed use neurophotonics for prosthetic controls

Scientists at Vanderbilt University, and academic and industry partners including Lockheed and Texas Instruments, are advancing development of neurophotonic links to help patients control and feel prosthetics. The VU release is here. Two earlier related stories are here and here.

Vanderbilt Health Information Privacy Lab director honored

VU HIPL Director Bradley Malin (Steelers fan) was named among 85 researchers honored with a with a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers. He's an assistant professor of biomedical informatics in the School of Medicine at VU. The White House release.

Vanderbilt Owen profs again eye NASDAQ trading

Owen Profs. Jacob Sagi and Robert Whaley created new Alpha Indexes derivative products that help investors cope with market volatility and price swings in highly liquid stocks or exchange traded funds. The Nasdaq release is here. Both men are at Owen's Financial Markets Research Center, where faculty have periodically influenced the markets' innovation, led by Director Hans Stoll. (The FMRC convenes a conference on human capital and finance, today at VU.)

The FT: VU, UT exec MBAs among world's best

According to a study by the Financial Times, executive MBA programs at Vanderbilt University (72) and the University of Tennessee (98) are among the top 100 in the world, a league in which only US programs associated with Kellogg, U. Chicago, Duke, Columbia made the top 10.

VU nanoscience clean room upgraded

If you're working with nanoparticles, you want the air really, really clean and you want to be able to detect leaks of dangerous gases, quickly. The VUMC Reporter tells of an upgrade in the VINSE nanotech facility.

Vanderbilt University supports Healthcare reform

Vanderbilt University today issued its endorsement of the latest healthcare reform proposal before Congress, saying, in part, "...Vanderbilt believes the reforms embodied in the legislation will improve our health insurance and health care delivery systems..." The release is here.

Vanderbilt hiring leaders

In Alumni Relations, Development, Communications, Public Affairs, Drug Discovery and elsewhere about the campus, Vanderbilt University is hiring key executives and scientists. At least two national executive-search firms have been hired to shoulder the responsibility. The story's here.