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Company Overview: AUTM is the nonprofit leader in efforts to educate, promote and inspire professionals – throughout their careers – to support the development of academic research that changes the world. AUTM’s community is comprised of more than 3,000 members who work in more than 800 universities
Abraham Lincoln was the only president to have applied for a patent. His invention was never commercialized. As a young man, Lincoln took a flat boat load of merchandise down the Mississippi River from his then home in New Salem, Illinois, to New Orleans, Louisiana. At one point the boat slid onto a

Precision medicine is becoming popular in all categories of medicine and has now made its way to weight management. Scientists at NIDDK have developed new methods for prescribing and monitoring personalized weight management interventions. People who make an attempt to lose weight are often

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has taken home an award for Excellence in Technology Transfer from the 2021 Federal Laboratory Consortium (FLC) awards. The FLC gave out 33 awards across nine different technology transfer categories, in addition to a COVID-19 Response award. The