Center for Technology Transfer & Commercialization (CTTC)

November 17, 2025

VUMC’s Robert Carnahan named a 2025 Master Innovator

He is a translational scientist and antibody engineer who specializes in rapid therapeutic development for emerging infectious diseases.

Daniel Fabbri, PhD, spoke about his entrepreneurial journey from graduate studies to founding a successful health care technology company. (photo by Erin O. Smith)
May 3, 2024

Faculty member Daniel Fabbri describes entrepreneurial journey

The talk provided insights into the challenges and rewards of commercializing academic research.

By Paul Govern
April 26, 2024

Vanderbilt’s Innovation Ambassadors help their colleagues change the world

Within the intellectual powerhouse that is Vanderbilt University and Vanderbilt University Medical Center thrives a group of doctors, engineers, computer scientists and others who also are visionaries, inventors and entrepreneurs. 

By Bill Snyder
September 15, 2023

Four named Master Innovators at Vanderbilt

Richard Caprioli, C. David Weaver, Susan Eagle, and Franz Baudenbacher as Master Innovators at Vanderbilt.

By Sarah Sommer
Shown here is the research team that discovered monoclonal antibodies that protect against COVID-19 in high-risk individuals.
August 24, 2022

COVID antibody research conducted at VUMC lands national award

A long-acting antibody combination discovered at Vanderbilt University Medical Center that protects against COVID-19 in high-risk individuals has received a gold medal in the 2022 R&D 100 awards program announced Aug. 22 by R&D World Magazine.

By Bill Snyder
From left, Jeff Balser, MD, PhD, Orrin Ingram, Jennifer Pietenpol, PhD, Mary Brock, John Brock III, John Brock IV, Major Brock, Morgan Brock, Adam Dixon, Rebecca Brock Dixon.
May 31, 2022

$10 million gift from Brock family to establish Brock Family Center for Applied Innovation

By Nancy Humphrey
September 24, 2020

REDCap helps state of Washington scale up its testing capacity

Until it was eclipsed by New York in mid-April, the state of Washington had the highest absolute number of COVID-19 cases in the United States.
By Bill Snyder
February 13, 2020

Clinical trial tests device that detects parathyroid glands

Vanderbilt is testing a device to assist in locating parathyroid glands during surgery.
By Jill Clendening
December 20, 2018

Lindsley named fellow of National Academy of Inventors

Craig Lindsley, PhD, co-director of the Vanderbilt Center for Neuroscience Drug Discovery (VCNDD), has been named a fellow of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI).
By Bill Snyder
November 20, 2017

Battery-switching device promises more road time for Tesla, Leaf drivers

A device out Vanderbilt's engineering school reconfigures modules in electric car battery packs to be online or offline – depending on whether they’re going to pull down the other modules.
By VUMC News and Communications
June 20, 2017

How six cups of ground coffee can improve nose, throat surgery

Vanderbilt engineers have designed a “granular jamming cap” filled with coffee grounds that can improve the accuracy of the sophisticated “GPS” system that surgeons use for nose and throat surgery.
By VUMC News and Communications
June 8, 2017

Three teams take top prizes at inaugural innovation challenge

Last week, Vanderbilt’s Department of Radiology and Radiological Sciences hosted the inaugural RadX Innovation Challenge Pitch Event.
By VUMC News and Communications
February 22, 2017

Organ-on-a-chip mimics heart’s biomechanical properties

Scientists at Vanderbilt University have created a three-dimensional organ-on-a-chip that can mimic the heart’s amazing biomechanical properties in order to study cardiac disease, develop heart drugs.
By VUMC News and Communications