Technology Transfer

·        New Jersey companies and others take an active interest in Biotech Center research and training programs.  Biotech Center faculty interact with more than 40 companies annually through sponsored research, site visits and seminars, technical consulting, and shortcourses.  

·        Two start-up companies have been spun off from research discoveries in Dr. Raskin’s laboratory--Phytotech (now part of Edenspace, Inc.) and Phytomedics, Inc.  

·        Companies currently licensing patented technology include Dupont, ForBio America, the Hughes Institute, Merck, Phytomedics, and Pioneer Hi-Bred. 

·        New Jersey companies collaborated with the Biotech Center to develop a High Throughput Screening Facility to train students in robotic screening and genomic analysis.  The Facility also services the needs of small biotech companies.

·        Corporate members of the Biotech Center’s Science Advisory Board include representatives from BASF, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Hercules, Johnson & Johnson, and FMC. 

·        The Biotech Center provides field trial facilities in South Jersey for genetically modified crops.  The first such trial in New Jersey was successfully conducted there in 1992, and projects were reviewed by a Citizens’ Advisory Committee organized by the Center.  A public-sector facility with good community relations for field-testing genetically transformed organisms is an important asset to New Jersey companies.  

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