BRIDGE Innovation & Business Development

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About Bridge
About Bridge

BRIDGE Innovation & Business Development serves as the hub of all commercialization activities at the UMass Chan Medical School
- About Bridge
- About
- Our Team
- Careers
- Contact Us
Faculty & Inventors
Faculty & Inventors

We support faculty and inventors with intellectual property questions, licenses, patents, entrepreneurship programs and funding, and other aspects of commercialization.
Industry & Investors
Industry & Investors

Our New Ventures Team is dedicated to connecting companies and UMass Chan researchers for their mutual benefit and to help meet industry, environmental and societal challenges.
Research
Research

UMass Chan Medical School is a top-notch research institution that offers world-renowned research expertise and novel therapeutics discoveries
- Research
- Departments and Centers
- Core Services
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Commercialize Your Research: MassBioDrive

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Creating a “bridge” between UMass Chan Medical School and the external life science ecosystem to support innovative research, protect intellectual property, and facilitate commercialization to help our community, the Commonwealth and the world.

Sponsored research agreements

To facilitate research and partnership with philanthropic, public agencies or commercial enterprises

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Protecting Intellectual Property (IP)

Filing and prosecuting patents and protect copyright globally

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Licensing

Creative licensing structures for new assets or platforms

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Welcome to BRIDGE

Our Office creates and executes comprehensive IP and business strategies for a multitude of technologies. They have many programs that promote entrepreneurship and Innovation. BRIDGE supports the institution’s research portfolio and leverages the wide array of expertise and capabilities that exist throughout our academic community.