The Office of Innovation and Entrepreneurship staff are dedicated to helping Pitt faculty and student innovators and regional small businesses make an impact for their ideas and research in the wilder world beyond the university. We will be introducing you to some of those people who work day in and day out to protect and promote intellectual property, provide innovation commercialization education, mentoring and funding opportunities, and engage with industry, investment, economic development, and other external innovation partners.
Andrele St. Val, assistant professor in the University of Pittsburgh School of Law, is developing a platform for improving legal education to build resilience, wellbeing, and inclusivity.
Pitt and UPMC Enterprises, through its Translational Sciences division, are collaborating again to provide funding support for therapeutics projects that need further de-risking experiments to enhance their clinical and commercial potential. We are featuring a project that received funding from the most recent proposal request.
For Shanae Butler, the Michael G. Wells Student Healthcare Competition taught her that translating scientific discovery into an innovation with commercial potential required honing a new skill: storytelling.
Pitt Faculty and Serial Entrepreneur Leverages NSF I-Corps to Launch New Venture Paul Ohodnicki was no stranger to innovation commercialization when he arrived at the University of Pittsburgh in 2020.