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Office of Research and Technology Ventures

Invention Disclosures

What to Disclose

Research activities at Dana-Farber often lead to the development of commercially useful inventions or discoveries.

The following list describes a few examples of the types of inventions that ORTV commonly licenses to companies for further development and distribution:

• Diagnostics

  tests based on biomarkers, expression profiles or genes (mutations, SNPs)

• Research Tools and Reagents

  antibodies, animal models, cloning tools, cell lines, chemical or DNA libraries

• Targets and Screens

  drug discovery screens, drug targets or assay systems

• Therapeutics

  small molecules, drug delivery systems, biologics and methods that can be used to treat disease

• Vaccines

  materials which can stimulate an immune response

• Devices

  medical devices, laboratory equipment or any type of machine

• New Uses or Improvements

  improvements to or new uses for existing technologies (e.g. new indications for a drug, new treatment combinations for drugs, ideas for improvements on existing devices or products)

• Software, Databases and Compositions

  algorithms, programs, collections of annotated information, educational courseware, videos, and other creative compositions

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