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Date:2/9/2009

ts in academic medicine, with a 20-year history of supporting Mayo's mission. The Office of Intellectual Property at Mayo Clinic, serves as a bridge between discoveries and the marketplace. Our staff works closely with Mayo physicians and scientists to evaluate and develop inventions, ideas and discoveries that have the potential to transform healthcare and generate income to support Mayo patient care, education and research. At Mayo Clinic, we work with inventors and industry to determine the right fit for each innovation, whether a sponsored research agreement, licensing agreement, technology-based venture, start-up company or entirely new business model. Mayo Clinic's Office of Intellectual Property has filed more than 2,800 patent applications resulting in more than 500 active licensing agreements with companies in the biomedical and manufacturing industries.

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About Virginia Tech

Founded in 1872 as a land-grant college, Virginia Tech is the most comprehensive university in the Commonwealth of Virginia and is among the top research universities in the nation. The university's nine colleges are dedicated to quality, innovation, and results through teaching, research, and outreach activities. At its main campus in Blacksburg and six other campus centers across the state, Virginia Tech enrolls more than 28,000 undergraduate and graduate students from all 50 states and more than 100 countries in 180 academic degree programs.

About Virginia Tech Intellectual Properties, Inc. (VTIP)

Formed in 1985 as an affiliated corporation of Virginia Tech, VTIP is passionate in its pursuit of excellence in technology commercialization, creating market opportunities from scientific innovation. VTIP facilitates the licensing of techn
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