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WTN Interviews: How WARF is Reaching Out to Businesses About Technology Developed in Wisconsin

WTN Interview: Carl Gulbrandsen Editors Note: This is the first of a multi-part interview that took place earlier this fall with Carl Gulbrandsen , managing director of the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF) . Part one reveals Gulbrandsens perspective on the new WARF initiative c...

Mentor Licenses Botulinum From WARF and Plans Wisconsin Manufacturing Facility

MADISON, Wis. - The Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF) has completed a licensing agreement with Mentor Corporation a California-based publicly traded company (NYSE: MNT), which gives Mentor the exclusive manufacturing and marketing rights to the proprietary botulinum toxin technology ...

New WARF investment director plans to keep steady course

Madison, Wis. The Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation has hired a new director of investment, who has worked with the organization since December 1 and was officially announced Wednesday. WARF licenses the patents generated by University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers to companies in Mad...

UW professor and WARF receive presidential medals

Madison got a double dose of national honors on Monday as President Bush gave medals to University of Wisconsin-Madison professor Carl R. de Boor and the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation for achievements in mathematics and technology transfer, respectively. The 2003 National Medals of Sc...

Promega to get early access to WARF technologies under new agreement

Madison, Wis. -- Promega Corp. of suburban Madison will gain early review and easier access to new and existing life science technologies that Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF) has available for licensing, under a new agreement signed by the two parties, Promega announced Tuesday. ...

Request to re-examine WARF stem cell patents escalates war of words

Madison, Wis. - The legal challenge to stem cell patents held by the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation has escalated the war of words between two states -Wisconsin and California - with both questioning the other's financial motivations. The most recent exchange came after the Public Pa...

Doyle, WARF announce partnership to lure stem cell companies

Milwaukee, Wis. - In a move designed to give Wisconsin a competitive advantage over other states, Gov. Jim Doyle has announced a partnership agreement with the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation guaranteeing all companies that conduct stem cell research at non-profit and academic institution...

Patent office upholds challenge to WARF stem cell patents

Madison, Wis. and Santa Monica, Calif. - The United States Patent and Trademark Office has upheld challenges to three stem cell patents held by the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation , but WARF is standing by the validity of the patents as the legal process continues to unfold. Every WARF...

Supreme Court ruling seen as blow to WARF stem cell patents

Madison, Wis . - Has the United States Supreme Court strengthened the case against stem cell patents held by the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation? The answer is yes, according to the California consumer watchdog organization that is challenging the patents, but that's not necessarily a co...

eMetagens infectious disease technology licensed by WARF

MADISON - eMetagen announced Monday it has completed a license agreement with the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation to commercialize technology developed by Robert Goodman and collaborators at the University of Wisconsin-Madison over the past nine years. Founded by Goodman, a UW professo...

DeLuca speaks out on entrepreneurialism, tech transfer, and WARF

Interview with DeLuca offers tips for biotech entrepreneurs MADISON If you stand on your tiptoes and squint, you can almost read the framed documents hanging in the lobby of UW Madison's new $35.6 million biochemistry building. Patents numbered 3,565,924 and 3,697,559 were issued to Hecto...

Cellular Dynamics International In-Licenses Key Patent Portfolio for Using Stem Cell-Derived Cells in Drug Testing

...ified populations. CDI is using the Field technology in conjunction with the patents it has licensed from the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation ( warf ), UW-Madison's tech-transfer vehicle, to create a pipeline that mass produces cells for large-scale drug screening campaigns at pharmaceutical compa...

Genetic information personalizes warfarin prescribing

...vance personalized medicine in the Badger State. Page also plays a key role in the initiative. Warfarin was developed at UW-Madison and patented by warf in the 1940s. Millions of patients take the anti-coagulant to prevent life-threatening blood clots that can cause heart attacks, strokes and death. Bu...

WAVE of the Future?

... lags behind in Wisconsin. It is a state that has a lot of great technology. We have wonderful research thats going on here at the university, we have warf handling, promoting and licensing the research, he said, but whats missing is the business deals. In the late 1990s, the Weinert School launched t...

Madisons TFX a Rising Star

...as discovered by Dr. Eric Triplett at UW-Madison. Parsons said that Agave Group had been on the lookout for technologies that they could run with. warf has licensed TFX, a technology that inhibits crown gall disease in fruit crops and woody ornamentals, and the University of Minnesota has licensed a t...

Milwaukee research institutions step up the pace for technology transfer

...ing agency chartered in the 1920s to work exclusively on innovations springing from the Madison campus. The creation of WiSys in June 2000 has allowed warf to reach beyond Madison to other campuses and has led to 15 patent applications, but NovaScan is the first company to result in a deal. NovaScan wa...

Biotech Manufacturing Facility to be Built in Wisconsin

...ity of Wisconsin-Madison reported that 65 percent of the inventions recorded by the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF) were in biotechnology. warf is considered to be one of the leading institutions in the US for its research patents and commercialization of technologies that are developed at the...

Biotech Pioneer Discusses Breakthrough in Osteoporosis Treatment

...ead and a co-founder of WARF. The first successful commercialization by warf of technology discovered at the University of Wisconsin was with Quaker Oat...supplementing breakfast cereals with Vitamin D. Since that first agreement, warf has generated billions of dollars from hundreds of UW inventions and has of...

Building a "Real Time" Economy in Wisconsin

... the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF), the UW-Madison Office of Corporate Relations and the state Department of Commerce. Speakers from warf explained how that internationally known patenting and licensing organization intends to spend more time with Wisconsin companies. The UW-Madison Offi...

Exclusive Interview With Dick Leazer: Renaissance Man

...et this show on the road. WTN: After you left warf what was your motivation to start Wisconsin Invest...r of WIP) and I were meeting one day when I was at warf about some of the start-up companies that we'd see...ality to the organization. Licensing associates at warf had been trying to find licensing deals for maybe ...

Governor Doyle Pledges Support for Stem Cell Research and Biotechnology Advancements

...director of the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF), announced that warf has pledged to visit every major company in Wisconsin in the next 12 months...r the patents it holds and number one among Big Ten Universities. Last year warf was involved with filing180 patent applications compared to Michigan which ...

Grow Wisconsin resources for technology development

...g the technology to companies for commercial development; and returning the licensing revenues to the inventor, the university and the WiSys network. warf is launching a new Wisconsin Technology Initiative to help license technology to Wisconsin companies. At Commerce, in line with the Governors visi...

WARF Collaboration a Win-Win for Wisconsin

...he company and yielded over $10 million in royalties for the UW-Madison and warf from 1981 to 1996. To foster additional successes in the future, GE Medical Systems, the UW-Madison and warf entered into a Master Collaboration Agreement in 2001. This agreement provi...

WTN Interview: Carl Gulbrandsen
WARF - A Unique and Successful Technology Transfer Organization

...(WARF) , Gulbrandsen shares his perspective on how warf is unique compared to other university technology-...me of the most successful technologies and patents warf has licensed. The next installment will cover W...gy-transfer organizations? Carl Gulbrandsen: warf is unique in that we are able to speculate on tech...

WTN Interview: Carl Gulbrandsen
WARFs Investment and Portfolio Strategy

...re and information technologies. PART 1) How warf is Reaching Out to Businesses About Technology Developed in Wisconsin - 12/04/03 PART 2) warf - A Unique and Successful Technology Transfer Organization WTN: How does warf structure deals with new versus existing companies...

Romanian Student Leverages Burrill Competition to Accomplish Her Dream

...he National Institutes of Health (NIH) to develop an antibiotic that could combat biological weapons. Finally, Copaescu and Goodman began working with warf to gain licensing rights to the Handelsman/Goodman technology. Copaescu expects to hear back from NIH about the grant, and receive $250,000 to $500...

The (Tech) Economic Year in Review: Signs of Progress Amid Continuing Challenges

... NovaScan, a Milwaukee firm with a novel diagnostic imaging technique, became the first company to sign a deal with WiSys Technology Foundation, a warf subsidiary. Cray Computers in Chippewa Falls began production of a new super-computer. Epic Systems in Madison won the biggest healthcare informat...

UW Office of Corporate Relations Celebrates Early Accomplishments

...database to track, organize and synthesize university-to-business relations. The office is funded entirely by private resources and located in the warf building. OCR has a staff of six and a seventh person based in University Research Park....

How Wisconsin Can Maintain Its Lead in Stem Cell Research

...ense arm of the UW-Madison, has created the WiCell Research Institute. This warf subsidiary has another dozen stem cell researchers. The institute has distr...lso conducts regular training sessions on how to work with them. Because warf holds key stem cell patents and controls technology transfer for UW-Madison...

Americas Third Coast nurtures biotechnology

...been translated into start-up businesses, aided by warf (Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation). Since being founded in 1925, the private, nonprofit warf patents inventions arising from university researc... income to UW-Madison to support further research. warf has contributed $650 million to UW-Madison over th...

Three Wisconsin approaches to technology transfer and commercialization

...d technology transfer organizations in the world, warf . Established in 1925, by University of Wisconsin-...o Emily Bauer, Wisconsin licensing representative, warf receives 360 disclosures annually and accepts 60 percent for patent applications. warf licenses 100 to 120 technologies per year and retu...

New guide offers assistance to UW-Madison entrepreneurs

...cies, guidelines and resources that UW-Madison and warf have developed over the years." OCR, which was ... and staff entrepreneurs is WARF. Founded in 1925, warf patents inventions arising from university researc...companies for commercialization. Since 1993 - when warf helped a pair of UW-Madison scientists launch the ...

Sensenbrenner and USPTO Director highlight benefits of technology transfer

...logist James Stein and licensed to Camtronics from warf in 2003. University technology helps our compa...ecially gratified to receive this recognition from warf after seeing today how Camtronics has worked with the UW-Madison and warf to bring a product to the market that may eventual...

WARF sues Samsung over computer chip technology license agreement

... The suit was settled in February. In addition, warf recently sought compensation from Infineon Techno...it was filed after discussions between Samsung and warf failed to yield an agreement to license the tech...ow in our quiver," Cohn said. "The message is that warf is serious about protecting its patents and its in...

UW Office of Corporate Relations nears one-year mile-mark

...for a long time, Hoslet said. Partnership with warf and Research Park OCR plays an important role alongside warf and University Research Park . The three entities...anies in grant writing, Hoslet said. Additionally, warf and OCR recently published a guide intended for UW...

Life Sciences: Wisconsin- The Smart Choice

...in Alumni Research Foundation (WARF) is ready to help any business gain access to the wealth of discoveries from the University of Wisconsin campuses. warf is recognized nationally for its ability to work with industry, to transfer technology from the lab bench to the marketplace. Carl Gulbrandsen Man...

Life Sciences: Wisconsin - The Smart Choice Part Two

...search Foundation Better known by its acronym warf the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation patents ...itamin D discovery eventually eliminated rickets), warf is recognized as a national model for tech transfe...o the marketplace and it manages an endowment that warf has grown since its inception....

Researchers report major advance in gene therapy technique

...r attention to the vascular system, a conduit to multiple leg and arm muscles they felt would work more efficiently than direct injection into muscle. warf licensed the vascular technique to Mirus, which now holds the patent and continues to commercialize the technique. In their first studies, the rese...

Wisconsin biotech sector featured in scientific magazine

...ch space. By offering a helping hand to companies, warf works to provide support, both financially and oth...were a spinout, our technology was licensed though warf and warf did take an equity position. In that regard we are...

Five seed-stage funding groups filling Midwest Life Science void

...nson. He has a long history of entrepreneurship in the life sciences arena. warf is the technology transfer group for the University of Wisconsin-Madison ...uctive tech transfer groups in the country. Johnson spent nine years at warf and did numerous life science deals on behalf of the university. He was als...
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