COVID-19 Technology Access Framework

Megan Nicholson, Program Officer of the Government-University-Industry Research Roundtable (GUIRR) recently conducted a webinar to discuss the COVID-19 Technology Access Framework objectives and participants with the Executive Director of Stanford's Office of Technology Licensing. Please listen to the webinar here.

The Framework participants have documented their commitment to:

• 1. implementing tech transfer strategies to facilitate rapid global access
• 2. facilitate alignment of all stakeholders including sponsors to facilitate broad and rapid access to technologies
• 3. making transactions top priority and minimize administrative burdens

"Many of Stanford's faculty have pivoted to working on COVID-19 topics. We began to receive our first wave of resulting inventions and product designs. In discussion with Stanford leadership we decided that we should issue our own statement of guiding principles to message to our community how we would be approaching technology transfer during this public health crisis," said Karin Immergluck, Executive Director of the Office of Technology Licensing at Stanford University. "At this point we need to really focus our efforts ... this framework messages to our local community that anything COVID-19-related will take top priority over other any projects."

As well as Stanford, Harvard, and MIT, the participants include: Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cornell University, Drexel University, Georgetown University, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, Mississippi State University, Northeastern University, Ohio State University, Oregon Health and Science University, Oregon State University, RTI International, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, University of Maryland College Park, University of Nevada Reno, University of South Alabama, Virginia Commonwealth University, Yale University.

Follow the Stanford COVID-19 Innovations and Pipeline on this page. We will add articles about available technologies from the various Framework participants in upcoming posts.

Read the full article on the Stanford OTL Website.