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Search Search Search Search Search Office of Research, Economic Development and Graduate Education Technology Transfer Office Technology Transfer Office Site Menu expand Skip Navigation Technology Transfer Office Available MSU Technologies About the TTO Staff Resources for Industry Forms & Policies News Start Ups The Technology Transfer Office at MSU has collaborated with faculty, researchers, and universities, and partnered with industry to achieve the following: 600+ technologies managed; 400+ patents, PVP's, trademarks, and copyrights issued; 700+ IP agreements completed; and 60+ company start ups and spin-outs. The Technology Transfer Office pursues three primary goals: Establishing collaborations and working relationships between industry and each of the research and creative areas of MSU. This includes pursuing industry sponsored research and collaborating on commercial opportunities. Licensing the inventions of MSU faculty and researchers to industry and managing the relationship between the University and its licensee partners. Serving the economic development arm of the University and working with Montana companies and entrepreneurs to leverage the resources of MSU to the benefit of Montana's economy. Industry sponsored research funding successes through MSU TTO Over the past year, the MSU Technology Transfer Office (TTO) has been instrumental in generating research collaboration agreements between MSU faculty and leading companies. These agreements have ranged in size from $20,000 to $400,000 and cover time scales from 6 months to multiple years. While the primary goal of the TTO is to protect and license the intellectual property generated by the faculty, often the inventions disclosed by faculty to the TTO are too early in development to attract licensing interest. One of the best alternatives in this case is to generate interest from a company in collaborating with the investigator on further development of the research. Additionally, industry funding can fill a need when government funding is no longer a good fit as is the case when efforts are shifted away from research towards development. The TTO has an established process to work with investigators interested in collaborating with industry. The office creates an ideal list of prospective companies and puts together a non-confidential overview of the collaboration opportunity including the specific value of the partnership to a company. Then, the companies are approached for interest. If initial results are positive, calls, emails and other interaction may lead to the development of a scope of work, budget and funding. Recent activity with MSU researchers leading to funded sponsored research activities include: Blake Wiedenheft, Immunology & Microbiology Joe Shaw, Electrical & Computer Engineering John Sheppard, Computer Science David Sands, Plant Sciences & Plant Pathology Stephen Sofie, Mechanical Engineering Frances Lefcort, Cell Biology and Neuroscience Thomas Livinghouse, Chemistry and Biochemistry Bob Peterson, Land Resources & Environmental Sciences Randy Babbitt, Physics Jack Dockery, Mathematical Sciences The TTO welcomes the opportunity to talk to all faculty about the possibility of seeking industry support for MSU research initiatives. Contact Daniel Juliano at x7483 daniel.juliano@montana.edu or Nick Zelver at x7706 nzelver@montana.edu . MSU Entrepreneur by Wimberg Productions and No Excuses Productions MSU TTO announces winners of 2019 gap fund opportunity MSU awarded $750k to advance high tech startups A public-private partnership led by Montana State University's TTO has been awarded a 3 year federal grant to create a public-private partnership for growing high tech companies in Montana. MSU spin-out company raises $33 million in capital Sustainable Bioproducts is developing a new way to grow protein, sourced from a fungus known as MK7, discovered at MSU by the company founders. MSU well bore sealing technology pushing toward commercialization Montana State University researchers and their industry partners are advancing a new way to fix leaking oil and natural gas wells: with rock-forming bacteria. MSU directing seed royalties back to crop research A new program at Montana State University allocates 30% of MSU crop licensing revenue back into crop breeding efforts, improving the sustainability of those programs. MSU researchers win $1.5M for developing CO2-converting membrane Montana State University has partnered with a company founded by an MSU alumnus to develop an advanced and environmentally friendly membrane to convert carbon dioxide into higher value chemical products. MSU’s biomarker-detecting technology licensed to FYR Diagnostics A Montana State University technology anticipated to improve the accuracy of medical diagnoses has been licensed by FYR Diagnostics, a biotech company in Missoula. MSU professor honing genetic scalpel with backing of biotech company Leading biotech company Amgen has invested in MSU professsor Blake Wiedenheft's startup to fund potentially ground-breaking CRISPR research at MSU. 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