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 2025 Impact Report
Delve into the OHSU Innovates 2025 Impact Report to discover exciting advancements in healthcare, successful startups and innovative collaborations across the university. These initiatives reflect how OHSU is strengthening Oregon’s innovation community by supporting new clinical ventures, empowering innovators, recognizing leaders in medical innovation, advancing women’s health and highlighting emerging technologies.
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 research leads to FDA approval for brain cancer imaging
OHSU researchers helped secure FDA approval for ferumoxytol (FERABRIGHT™) as a contrast agent to detect and monitor brain tumors. The work began nearly 30 years ago in the lab of Edward Neuwelt, M.D., and was carried out by the Neuro-Oncology Blood-Brain Barrier Program team. Key contributors include Lisa Muir, M.P.A.,H.A., C.C.R.P., Ramon Barajas Jr., M.D., Laszlo Szidonya, M.D., Ph.D., Amy Huddleston, M.P.A., H.A., Leslie Muldoon, Ph.D., and Rochelle Fu, Ph.D.
OHSU Technology Transfer helped move the research from the lab to FDA approval, making this new imaging option available to physicians.
Read the full story from OHSU News.
Featured Event
Advancing Gene Therapy at OHSU: From Discovery to Clinical Impact
Join us Thursday, April 30, from 12–1 p.m. PT, for the first OHSU Innovates: Rare Disease Research and Translation virtual seminar, “Advancing Gene Therapy at OHSU: From Discovery to Clinical Impact.”
Learn about OHSU’s expanding gene therapy capabilities from early discovery through clinical impact. This session highlights the Gene Therapy Strategy Team and how investigators, clinicians and partners collaborate to advance promising therapies toward real-world patient benefit.
Register for this event through Zoom.
When: Thursday, April 30, 12-1 p.m. PT
Where: Virtual
Who: Open to all
Cost: Free
Featured funding opportunity
Biomedical Innovation Program (BIP) – Drug Discovery Track
The BIP Drug Discovery Track supports OHSU investigators and trainees in developing new drug discovery and therapeutic technologies. Offered by the Oregon Clinical and Translational Research Institute in partnership with OHSU Innovates, the program provides funding, project management and commercialization mentorship to help advance early-stage concepts toward real-world impact.
Awards of up to $60,000 are available for 12-month projects.
Applications are due May 5.
See the Request for Applications for full details and submission instructions. For questions or to schedule a consult, contact Jonathan Jubera, MBA, at jubera@ohsu.edu.
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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