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Harvard University is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States. Founded 16 years after the arrival of the Pilgrims at Plymouth, the College has grown from nine students with a single master to an enrollment of more than 20,000 degree candidates.

The Harvard Office of Technology Development’s core mission is to promote the public interest by fostering innovation and translating new inventions made at Harvard into useful products that will be available and beneficial to society. With $445 million in research & development funding, OTD strives to make the fruits of Harvard research more accessible outside the University by fostering their swift, professional and effective development and commercialization. Ever mindful of the essential role of discovery-stage academic research in the life sciences and physical sciences, OTD has committed itself to ensure that Harvard researchers’ medical innovations benefit people throughout the world.

Columbia is the oldest institution of higher education in the state of New York. Founded and chartered as King’s College in 1754, Columbia is the sixth-oldest such institution in the United States. The institution was established as King’s College by the Church of England, receiving a Royal Charter in 1754 from George II of Great Britain. Columbia annually grants the Pulitzer Prizes, and more Nobel Prize winners are affiliated with Columbia than with any other institution in the world. Columbia’s Science and Technology Ventures currently manages some 600 patents and more than 250 active license agreements. Patent-related deals earned Columbia more than $230 million in the 2006 fiscal year, according to the university. As of October 2008, 78 Columbia University affiliates have been honored with Nobel Prizes for their work in physics, chemistry, medicine, literature, peace, and economics. In the last 12 years (1996-2008) 17 Columbia affiliates have won Nobel Prizes, of whom nine are current faculty members.

Princeton University was founded in 1746 as the fourth oldest college in the U.S. It is located in Princeton, NJ with 7,000 students and 1,100 faculty members. The university receives approximately $220 million per year in research funding with leading research centers in fields such as neuroscience, materials science and genomics. In addition to the research conducted on the main campus, Princeton researchers benefit greatly from the University's longstanding ties with the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)s Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory and the Institute for Advanced Study.

Yale University was founded in 1701 as the third oldest college in the U.S. It is located in New Haven, CT with 11,000 students and 3,400 faculty members. The university receives approximately $450 million per year in research funding with leading research centers in fields such as biotechnology, life science, and microscopy. State-of-the-art core resources at the School of Medicine provide access to newest technologies in areas including genomics and proteomics, as well as cellular, molecular, MR and PET imaging.

Founded in 1852, Tufts University is recognized among the premier universities in the United States. Tufts maintains 3 campuses in the Boston area and one in France. The university has 8,500 students and a research budget totaling $160 million.

Through a sponsored research agreement with Tufts University, Allied Minds has established BA Logix Inc. to develop and commercialize a novel computational methodology applicable to imaging and compression technologies resulting in extremely fast and efficient implementations.

Brown University is the seventh oldest institute of higher learning in the U.S. and one of the preeminent Ivy League schools – with particular strengths in biomedical engineering and materials science. Brown has 700 full-time faculty and 8,000 students research and learn in an open curriculum that facilitates an entrepreneurial environment. Annual research funding in $150M with an additional $80M going to surrounding Rhode Island hospitals.

Johns Hopkins is one of the country’s foremost academic and research institutions particularly renowned for its efforts in the life sciences. JHU’s philosophy is that teaching and research are interdependent. John’s Hopkins receives well over $1B in sponsored research annually and generates over 300 new invention disclosures per year.

Cornell University, founded in 1865, has campuses in Ithaca, NY and New York City (medical campus). Cornell has over 20,000 students and almost 3,000 faculty supported by over $500 million in research monies.

Allied Minds has partnered with the Weill Medical College of Cornell University to develop and commercialize a new patient salt intake monitoring system, not requiring the use of laboratory facilities. Excessive salt consumption is a major problem in the management of high blood pressure (hypertension) and heart disease which afflicts over 60 million Americans. The National Institute of Health specifically recommends limiting intake of salt upon diagnosis of hypertension.

Boston University is one of the leading private research and teaching institutions in the world today, with two primary campuses in the heart of Boston. The university receives over $300 million in grants and research monies and has over 32,000 students and almost 4,000 faculty members.

MSKCC is one of the world’s premier cancer centers combining exceptional patient care with leading-edge research and superb educational programs.

New York University (NYU) is located in the heart of Manhattan and records $276 million in annual research with focus in IT, computer science and life sciences. NYU is a private university with over 40,000 students and 6,800 faculty.

The Penn State Research Foundation (PSRF) is the intellectual property and commercialization arm of The Pennsylvania State University (Penn State). Approximately 80,000 students attend the university, which has 24 campuses at locations across Pennsylvania. Penn State employs over 22,000 full-time people including 5,500 faculty. With $665 million in annual research funding (FY 2006), Penn State ranked 13th in the nation and third in terms of industry-sponsored research expenditures. Penn State is recognized for its core strengths in science and engineering and is ranked first in research in both materials and sociology.

Vanderbilt University is located in Nashville, Tennessee. Technology commercialization activities are managed through the Office of Technology Transfer and Enterprise Development. With 33,000 students, and 800 full-time faculty, the University has annual research spending of $230 million.

Rutgers is New Jersey’s land-grant institution and one of the nation’s foremost research universities with strengths in the sciences and engineering. Rutgers’ has an annual research budget of $430M and produces about 250 new invention disclosures annually.

The University of Florida is the top-performing public institution at transferring its research to the marketplace, according to the Milken Institute. Florida receives over $565 million in annual research funds, and discloses over 300 new inventions per year. It consistently ranks among the top-10 universities in executed licensing and options, with 74 such agreements in 2007 and has launched more than 50 companies over the last five years.

Founded in 1965, the University of California, Irvine combines the strengths of a major research university with the bounty of an incomparable Southern California location. With more than 25,000 students, 1,800 faculty members and 8,600 staff, UCI is among the fastest-growing campuses in the University of California system.With a strong emphasis in medical devices, the school garners approximately $235 million in research funding annually.

University of California, Davis is one of the nation's top public research universities and the land-grant research institution for the University of California system. The campus is set in the heart of the California Central Valley, close to the state capital of Sacramento and San Francisco Bay Area.

The school has a strong emphasis in agricultural research with more than $544 million in research funding, 30,000 students, 20,000 staff and the largest campus in the UC system at 5,300 acres.

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) has been a leader in science and engineering research for more than 70 years. Located on a 200 acre site in the hills above the University of California/s Berkeley campus, adjacent to the San Francisco Bay, Berkeley Lab holds the distinction of being the oldest of the U.S. Department of Energy/s National Laboratories. The Lab is managed by the University of California, operating with an annual budget of more than $500 million (FY2004) and a staff of about 3,800 employees, including more than 500 students. Lawrence Berkeley Laboratories key efforts are in fundamental studies of the universe; quantitative biology; nano-science; new energy systems and environmental solutions; and the use of integrated computing as a tool for discovery.

Opening in Boulder in 1876, the University of Colorado now has more than 52,000 students and 3,500 instructional faculty. The institution encompasses three campuses - Boulder, Colorado Springs, and the Denver and Health Sciences Center and attracts more than $500 million dollars in research funding per year.

Illumasonix LLC will develop and commercialize a new non-invasive vascular disease detection procedure. This process will easily and non-invasively provide real-time assessment of detailed blood flow patterns within the cardiovascular system.

UCLA, located on 419 acres in Westwood village in Los Angeles, has a strong emphasis on biotechnology and stem cell research as well as engineering and computer technology. It has nearly $850 million in annual research funding with more than 4000 teaching faculty and 35,000 students in attendance. UCLA became the first node of the Internet or what was then known as the ARPANET on September 2, 1969.

The roots of the University of California, Berkeley go back to the gold rush days of 1849 and it was the first school in the University of California system. With an emphasis in engineering and medicine, Berkeley has more than $500 million in sponsored research, 6,500 academic staff and more than 33,000 students.

Situated along the Pacific Ocean on 1,200 acres of coastal woodland, University of California, San Diego is a major research and teaching university with an interdisciplinary ethos and tradition of innovation and risk-taking. It currently serves more than 26,000 students and supports $733 million in research funding through its 1,150 faculty.

The University of California, San Francisco is a leading university that consistently redefines health care worldwide by conducting advanced biomedical research, educating graduate students in life sciences and providing complex patient care.

UCSF has some 18,600 faculty and staff at campus locations, including Parnassus, Mission Bay, Laurel Heights, Mission Center, UCSF/Mount Zion and affiliated hospitals - San Francisco General Hospital Medical Center and the Veterans Affairs Medical Center. With more than $750 million in research funding, primarily in the life-science and medicine, UCSF is a premier west coast institution.

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) is a premier applied science laboratory that is part of the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) within the Department of Energy (DOE). Since its inception in 1952 LLNL has been responsible for ensuring that the nation’s nuclear weapons remain safe, secure, and reliable through application of advances in science and engineering. With their broad based capabilities and leadership in mission-focused areas of science and engineering, the Laboratory is able to make major advances to meet other national needs. LLNL pursues major research programs in energy and environment, bioscience and biotechnology, and basic science and advanced technology. LLNL is currently managed by Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC. Lawrence Livermore has an annual budget of about $1.6 billion and a staff of over 8,000 employees. It is home to over 3,500 scientists, engineers, and technicians together with professionals in many other disciplines to keep the Laboratory running in a safe, secure and in an efficient manner.

The Los Alamos National Laboratory is the largest institution in Northern New Mexico with more than 9,000 employees plus approximately 650 contractor personnel. The annual budget for the institution is approximately $2.2 billion.

From its origins as a secret Manhattan Project laboratory, Los Alamos has attracted world-class scientists and applied their energy and creativity to solving the nation's most challenging problems. As one of the U.S. Department of Energy's multi-program, multi-disciplinary research laboratories, Los Alamos thrives on having the best people doing the best science to solve problems of global importance.

The state's land-grant research university, Washington State University (WSU) was founded in Pullman Washington in 1890. Today, it is co-located in Pullman and Spokane with additional campuses in the Tri-Cities (Richland, Pasco and Kennewick) and in Vancouver, across the Columbia River from Portland. WSU has nearly 1,300 instructional faculty members, 23,000 students and has successfully attracted approximately $200 million in research funding each year.

Arizona State University (ASU), located in the Phoenix area, conducts its technology transfer activities through the non-profit Arizona Technology Enterprise. ASU, with over 60,000 students and 3,000 faculty, has a research budget of almost $200 million and a strong emphasis on the engineering and life sciences.

Colorado State University Research Foundation (CSURF), is a private, not-for-profit Colorado Corporation established to assist the two Universities (Colorado State University at Fort Collins and Colorado State University Pueblo) in their research and educational efforts including patent and licensing management.

Colorado State University is the land-grant school for the state and maintains an annual research budget of more than $244 million. The school has 1,400 faculty in support of 25,000 students.

The University of Washington in Seattle, founded in 1861, is one of the oldest state-supported institutions of higher education on the West Coast and is one of the preeminent research universities in the world with approximately $1 billion in research funding annually. With more than 40,000 students and an academic staff exceeding 13,000 it contributes to nearly every branch of scientific discovery.

The Science and Technology Corporation is the commercialization arm of the University of New Mexico. Founded in 1889, the University of New Mexico now occupies 600 acres along old Route 66 in the heart of Albuquerque, New Mexico. Approximately 26,000 students attend the main campus and another 6,865 attend branch campuses and education centers. UNM employs 20,210 people statewide, including employees of University Hospital which has strong emphasis on medical research as well as patient care. With more than $140 million in research funding annually, the school is the leading research university in the state.

EndoScreen, LLC will develop and commercialize a non-invasive blood test for the early detection of endometrial cancer -- cancer of the inner uterine lining in female patients. Our patent-pending technology will be marketed to hospitals and clinics worldwide.

Washington University in St. Louis (WUSTL) coordinates technology transfer activities through its Office of Technology Management. With a full-time faculty of 860, WUSTL's recent research support totals $550 million, ranking 5th among educational institutions receiving research support from the National Institutes of Health. Its School of Medicine ranks 4th among all medical schools. WUSTL has an enrollment of 14,000 students.

Allied Minds has partnered with Washington University to establish Cephalogics LLC to develop and commercialize a novel wearable neuroimaging device for continuous functional mapping and monitoring of the human brain.

University of Michigan, with Ann Arbor, Flint, and Dearborn campuses, pursues technology commercialization through its Office of Technology Transfer and a satellite office located in the College of Engineering. With 40,000 students, and 2,400 full-time faculty, the University has a research budget of $800 million, making it one of the highest ranking universities in research spending.

Allied Minds has partnered with the University of Michigan to establish Biotectix LLC to develop and commercialize novel bioactive conductive polymer electrodes and coatings tailored to enhance a wide variety of medical devices and result in a fully integrated electrode-tissue interface.

Northwestern University is a private institution founded in 1851 to serve the Northwest Territory. It combines innovative teaching and pioneering research in a highly collaborative environment that transcends traditional academic boundaries. Northwestern receives more than $550M in sponsored research annually.

The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) is part of the University of Arkansas System, and is one of the largest public employers in the state with almost 9,000 employees, including nearly 1,000 physicians who provide medical care to patients at UAMS and its affiliates. It is the state’s largest basic and applied research institution, with more than $107 million in annual research funding, grants and contracts and internationally renowned programs in multiple myeloma, aging, cancer and other areas.

University of Missouri - Columbia pursues technology commercialization activities through its Office of Technology Management and Industry Relations. University of Missouri is one of only 34 public U.S. universities selected for membership in the Association of American Universities and designated "Doctoral/Research Extensive" by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. With 28,000 students and 1,100 full-time faculty, "Mizzou" has an annual research spending of $220 million.

Allied Minds has partnered with the University of Missouri-Columbia to establish LifeScreen to bring new non-invasive breast cancer screening technology to the market.

University of Nebraska, Lincoln (UNL) coordinates technology commercialization efforts through its Office of Technology Development. A member of the Association of American Universities since 1909, and listed as Doctoral/Research University-Extensive by the Carnegie Foundation, UNL has a faculty of 1,700 and annual research spending of $165 million. Student enrollment totals 22,000.

University of Nebraska Medical Center (UNMC) coordinates technology commercialization efforts through the for-profit UNeMed Corporation, owned by the Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska. With annual research awards of more than $80 million (not including state funds), UNMC investigators have pioneered many breakthroughs, including peripheral stem cell transplants, solid organ transplants, and glaucoma drug Xalatan. UNMC has a full-time faculty of 800 and an enrolled student body of 3,000.

Allied Minds has partnered with the University of Nebraska Medical Center to establish Purtein to commercialize a novel protein purification technology for drug development and production.

Wayne State University has an urban campus located in Detroit, Michigan. With 33,000 students, and 1,000 full-time faculty, the University has annual research spending of $230 million.

Allied Minds has partnered with Wayne State University to establish GliaGen LLC which will specialize in novel diagnostic and therapeutic technologies specifically tailored to treat neurodegenerative diseases