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Take Your Ideas to Bootcamp

June 13, 2016

The word “bootcamp” conjures up images of drill sergeants training military recruits or similarly inspired fitness training programs. The idea is to improve fitness, strength and stamina by pushing someone to their physical and mental limits. For some of us, it sounds a bit like internship- a time in life that we remember fondly but […]

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InCMed

What’s the Big Idea?

May 9, 2016

My morning started like most school days. Kid commotion: cries over the hairbrush, breakfast dish banging and a 15-minute music play-off featuring the 5th grade oboe vs. 2nd grade piano. I mused that the earplug inventor had at least two kids, maybe more. For a curtain call, my 11-year old battled her backpack. I observed […]

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Impact+Innovation Forum

April 14, 2016

The Social Innovation Lab at Johns Hopkins University will host its annual Impact+Innovation Forum on Thursday, April 21 from 6-8 p.m. at the Johns Hopkins Hospital’s Chevy Chase Bank Conference Center (Zayed). SIL incubates innovative non-profits, mission-driven companies and disruptive technologies and inventions tackling social issues in Baltimore and beyond. The event on April 21st will feature […]

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InCMed

Essential W’s of Intellectual Property at JHU: Why, What, When and Where?

April 11, 2016

While we didn’t go into academic medicine to commercialize products, many of us have ideas and discoveries that can improve health. Intellectual Property (IP) has a broad definition- any new and useful process, machine, composition of matter, life form, article of manufacture, software, copyrighted work or tangible property. It’s imperative that we know our responsibilities […]

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Emergency Zika Design Challenge

March 31, 2016

The Johns Hopkins University Center for Bioengineering Innovation & Design (CBID) and Jhpiego invite you to take part in a weekend design challenge to focus on the prevention of mosquito bites in an effort to reduce the spread of Zika. Despite significant efforts and technological advancements, mosquitoes continue to pose considerable public health problems across […]

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IDAMS: A New Program for DOM Faculty from InCMed and Carey School

March 21, 2016

Initial Discovery Assessment and Market Scan (IDAMS) is a program co-sponsored by the Carey Business School and the Department of Medicine’s InCMed program to assist the department’s investigators in assessing their scientific ideas for potential commercialization. Investigators who would like to know if their discoveries might be commercializable are paired with a team of MBA […]

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New Healthcare Design Competition

March 11, 2016

For more information, visit: cbid.bme.jhu.edu or email cbid@jhi.edu

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InCMed

Off the Grid: The Innovation Ecosystem at Johns Hopkins

March 7, 2016

Many have said that we need a map of the innovation environment at Johns Hopkins. The request is based on a laudable goal—to educate faculty about their institutional resources. But in my opinion, a map is not the right tool. Innovation, by its very nature, is changing constantly. A road is paved as each new […]

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InCMed

Innovation and Commercialization in Medicine: on DOM InCMed

February 1, 2016

The word “innovation” appears almost everywhere. According to Google’s ngram word use database, the word overtook “invention” around 1970. Now, almost 50 years later, the word is used as a noun, verb and adjective- frequently as a buzzword in entrepreneurial circles. Last year, our DOM leadership assigned two vice chairs of “Innovation and Commercialization.”  We […]

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Marr, Kieren

Marr awarded Rustgi Family Fund grant

December 30, 2015

Kieren Marr, professor in the Division of Infectious Diseases and associate vice chair for innovation and commercialization, along with Supirya Munshaw from the Carey Business School, was recently awarded a $2,500 Rustgi Fund grant for their study “Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Medical Research.” The Rustgi Family Fund in Entrepreneurship was established in honor of Motil […]

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Mark Anderson, M.D., Ph.D - William Osler Professor of Medicine, director of the Department of Medicine in the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

Mark Anderson, M.D., Ph.D is the William Osler Professor of Medicine, director of the Department of Medicine in the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and physician-in-chief of The Johns Hopkins Hospital... read more »

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