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Commercializing an idea or a business takes a lot of time, resources and people. The Brock Family Center for Applied Innovation is familiar with the process. Established in 2023 through a $10 million gift from the Brock family, the Center works with innovators from Vanderbilt University Medical Center and Vanderbilt University to accelerate the commercialization of their discoveries through collaboration with industry partners. There’s one local and familiar partner that’s making an impact on innovators and students.

The talk provided insights into the challenges and rewards of commercializing academic research.

Within the intellectual powerhouse that is Vanderbilt University and Vanderbilt University Medical Center thrives a group of doctors, engineers, computer scientists and others who also are visionaries, inventors and entrepreneurs.

Harvard’s Timothy Springer, PhD, a world leader in structural biology and immunology, will deliver the next Discovery Lecture at Vanderbilt on Thursday, Feb. 8.