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Office of Research and Technology Ventures

Invention Disclosures

What to Disclose

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Research activities at Dana-Farber often lead to the development of commercially useful inventions or discoveries.

The following list describes a few examples of the types of inventions that ORTV commonly licenses to companies for further development and distribution:

  • Diagnostics
    tests based on biomarkers, expression profiles or genes (mutations, SNPs)
  • Research Tools and Reagents
    antibodies, animal models, cloning tools, cell lines, chemical or DNA libraries
  • Targets and Screens
    drug discovery screens, drug targets or assay systems
  • Therapeutics
    small molecules, drug delivery systems, biologics and methods that can be used to treat disease
  • Vaccines
    materials which can stimulate an immune response
  • Devices
    medical devices, laboratory equipment or any type of machine
  • New Uses or Improvements
    improvements to or new uses for existing technologies (e.g. new indications for a drug, new treatment combinations for drugs, ideas for improvements on existing devices or products)
  • Software, Databases and Compositions
    algorithms, programs, collections of annotated information, educational courseware, videos, and other creative compositions