Health Sciences Innovation

With a mission to transform groundbreaking discoveries into impactful solutions, the Health Sciences Innovation team empowers health sciences innovators and facilitates collaboration and integration of expertise and resources in research, IP protection, product development, commercialization, and new venture development. 

The team offers the following supports to researchers:

• Protect ideas: Manage intellectual property, file patents, and safeguard discoveries.
• De-risk technologies: Provide validation, prototyping, and market readiness support.
• Market innovations: Position technologies for industry adoption and licensing.
• Launch ventures: Support spinouts and new company formation.
• Be an educational resource: Deliver training in biomedical discovery, development, and commercialization.
• Remove barriers: Simplify invention disclosure and streamline commercialization processes.
• Connect inventors: Link researchers to funding, expertise, and commercialization resources.
• Build networks: Collaborate with faculty, industry, and stakeholders to accelerate innovation.
• Create win-win outcomes: Ensure commercialization benefits both Ohio State and industry while maximizing social impact.
• Provide agility: Respond quickly to breakthroughs, market trends, inventor needs, and commercialization challenges.