The Innovation Ecosystem team is comprised of industry representatives and research colleagues that serve as advisors and work with the ERC to commercialize the technologies it creates.
Team Members:
John Hartnett, Team Leader
Industry Liaison – CELL–MET
Boston University johnhart@bu.edu
Michael Pratt
Managing Director, Technology Development
Boston University Mpratt@bu.edu
Bryce Pilz
Director of Licensing
University of Michigan Bpilz@umich.edu
Pedro Hernandez
Director Technology Management and Commercialization
Florida International University Pedro.hernandez@fiu.edu
Members
Bico Group is a bioconvergence startup with over 1,000 employees that designs and supplies technologies and services to enhance biology research.
Boston Micromachines Corporation provides the world’s most versatile deformable mirrors, optical modulators and retinal imaging systems using advanced adaptive optics.
Hamamatsu Photonics K.K. is a Japanese manufacturer of optical sensors, electric light sources, and other optical devices for scientific, technical and medical use.
Imagion Biosystems is developing next-generation molecular imaging technologies that find cancer and other diseases using bio-safe magnetic nanoparticles.
Lightwave Advisors, Inc., provides Executive and Board of Director assistance to emerging, growing and established companies in advanced technology products and services.
Nanoscribe, a BICO company, makes products which aim to reduce organ shortage and speed up drug development by providing accessible life science solutions that combine biology and technology.
Sublime, LLC is commercializing a vapor crystallization and printing technology that controls dissolution/solubility and permits the combination of multiple small molecules and compounds on substrates, such as timed release patches.
Valo is enabling end-to-end human-centric insights and connecting all of the phases of drug discovery and development, making it faster, more connected, and more predictable.
Thorlabs, Inc. is an American, privately held optical equipment company. Its 1,500+ employees sell over 20,000 products in fiber optics, lasers, optical instrumentation, optomechanics, photonics, and vibration isolation.
StemBioSys has turned from a single cell expansion platform into an extended line of high-quality cells and cell-expansion tools, pioneering the next evolution in stem cell research.
