State University of New York at Stony Brook Clinton Rubin, Ph.D. Professor

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State University of New YorkatStony
BrookClinton Rubin, Ph.D.Professor
ChairDepartment of Biomedical Engineering

• Forum on Innovation and Entrepreneurship
• in Biomedical Engineering
• Education

The history of scientific and technical discovery
teaches us the human race is poor in independent
thinking and creative imagination. Albert
Einstein
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The ChallengeA principal conclusion of
theNational Academy of Sciences Committee on
Science, Engineering and Public Policy report on
Graduate Education

• many of the job opportunities of the future
  will favor students with greater breadth of
  academic and career skills, so the universities
  and their partners in the graduate education
  enterprise should therefore cooperate to broaden
  curricular options for graduate students

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BME 507 Fundamentals of Biomedical
Engineering Management

• Technology Development
• Translational Research, Development,
  Marketability, Commercialization
• Principles of Intellectual Property
• Disclosures, Provisional Patents, Patents, Claims
• National vs. International
• Capitalization
• Angel Funding, Investment Banks, Equity, IPOs
• Regulatory Affairs
• FDA Preclinicals, Phase I, II, III
• GMPs, GLPs, GCPs, QA, QC

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BME 501 Engineering Principles in
Molecular and Cell Biology

• Context Based Learning
• Molecular bioengineering as based on drugs and
  devices for the diagnosis and treatment of
  disease and injury
• Engineering a Biomolecular Based Medical Device
• Research of Current Technology
• Design Development
• Protection through Intellectual Property
• Presentation as 30 of final grade

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A Novel Solution to Infections Associated
withCenteral Venous Catheters BME 501 Part
III The Solution David Komatsu
Diffusional hub with semi-permeable membrane
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 Functionalized Biomaterial for the Treatment
and Repair of Abdominal Aortic Aneurysms Kim
LuuBME 501 Patent Project
New Stent Composition
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 Treatment of Bradicardia through Sub
ThresholdStimulation of the Sinoatrial Node
Jameson Baker12/10/02 BME 501
AP caused by sub threshold stimulation
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Encouraging Innovation Entrepreneurship

• BME is directly tied to the Center for
  Biotechnology, a NYS ED resource for bridging
  academia and industry.
• Students encouraged to take advantage of Industry
  Internship or Patent Law Internship program.
• Grad and Undergrads encouraged to work in the
  Universitys Incubator facility.
• Faculty and Students encouraged towards
  translational research, technology development,
  and commercialization (formation of companies).
• Innovative Technology Development grants through
  Center for Biotechnology

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Are we successful?

• Entrepreneurial activities are key to future of
  BME, and training of students.
• This goal can be achieved in many ways.
• Time will tell.
• If change is to occur, it will be through the
  uncoordinated action of many persons at many
  institutions who try to consider what is best for
  their students and their profession and then take
  appropriate action.
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