OHSU innovators
Tell us about a new idea or technology and learn how OHSU could help protect the intellectual property.
Startup support
Interested in forming a new company around your idea? Learn about how OHSU can help with startup company formation.
Collaborations
Learn more about existing OHSU partnerships and opportunities to work with OHSU community members.
Licensing opportunities
Visit the OHSU Technology Portal to search for existing licensing opportunities and review technology summaries.
Agreements
Learn more about commercialization and intellectual property agreements.
Entrepreneurial education
Learn more about OHSU curriculum and programs offered to provide entrepreneurial training to OHSU members.
OHSU Innovates 2024 Impact Report
Delve into the OHSU Innovates 2024 Impact Report to discover exciting advancements in healthcare, successful startups, and innovative collaborations at OHSU. This report features annual innovation metrics and stories in four topic areas: revolutionizing eye care, improving behavioral health, developing new therapeutics for infectious diseases and improving cancer detection and prevention.
Learn more about OHSU Innovates
OHSU Innovates is proud to support researchers and clinicians at OHSU who are striving to turn scientific ideas into real world solutions.
Hear from a few of these OHSU members and learn what motivates them and how OHSU fosters innovation, collaboration and entrepreneurship.
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Featured News
OHSU student takes top prize in Invent Oregon competition
Congratulations to OHSU PhD student Chloé Le Moing and her team for winning the $10,000 grand prize and $1,000 People’s Choice Award at Invent Oregon 2025 with their project, EEGonaut! EEGonaut is a VR and EEG headset that helps children with ADHD and anxiety build self-regulation skills through short, brain-powered games. It offers a fun and non-invasive alternative to medication.
Chloé developed the idea through the OHSU Student Innovator Challenge, a program led by Oregon Clinical and Translational Research Institute that helps students shape early-stage ideas into real-world solutions. The challenge provides funding, mentorship and hands-on experience and sends winning teams to represent OHSU at the Invent Oregon finals.
This is the second year in a row that an OHSU team has taken the top prize at InventOR. It reflects the growing impact of student-led innovation at OHSU and the strong support behind it.
Read the full press release.
Featured Event
Making it Patentable: Intellectual Property and Translational Impact
Join us for a candid fireside chat between OHSU cancer biologist Monika Davare, Ph.D., and OHSU Senior Patent Manager Steve Eck, J.D., as they explore how academic labs can think more strategically about intellectual property and translational impact. Topics will include:
- Why IP matters (even if you’re not pursuing a startup)
- How publishing timelines can affect patentability
- Understanding inventorship vs. authorship
- What gets Tech Transfer to say “yes”
Register for this event through Zoom.
WHEN: Thursday, Dec. 18 (new date), 12-1 p.m. PT
WHERE: Virtual
WHO: Open to all OHSU researchers
COST: Free
Featured funding opportunity
Advancing Social Change, Empowerment, and New Discoveries (ASCEND) Award
The ASCEND Award supports OHSU community members in developing innovative solutions that address practical challenges and advance commercialization efforts. The program aims to broaden access to resources and opportunities that help move projects from concept to impact. Awards of up to $4,000 are granted to cover expenses such as materials, travel, and mentorship.
Applications are accepted throughout the year and reviewed quarterly. The next deadline is December 31, 2025.
See the Request for Proposals for more information and see the Application Form to apply. Contact innovates@ohsu.edu with questions.
OHSU Innovates collaborative network
Innovate Collaborate Oregon
OHSU Innovates is a proud partner of Innovate Collaborate Oregon (ICOregon), a collaborative network of Oregon institutions, which aims to further support and encourage the growth of innovation and entrepreneurship across the state. By bringing together resources across multiple institutions ICOregon aims to promote innovative discoveries, establish successful collaborations, form new companies, and increase economic development in Oregon.
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