Arizona universities push tech-transfer growth

If Stephen Johnston’s research pans out, there someday could be a universal device to diagnose whether people have cancer.

Even further out, there could be a vaccine to protect us against cancer, just as vaccines protect us against chicken pox and other diseases.

Johnston, director of the Center for Innovations in Medicine at Arizona State University’s Biodesign Institute, and his colleagues offer a sense of science’s new frontiers as well as a sense of the state’s new attitude toward technology transfer.

Tech transfer is the process of transferring discoveries from academic laboratories to businesses that can take them into the commercial marketplace. University and high-tech leaders are increasingly pinning hopes on it as a way to boost university finances and spur fresh growth in Arizona’s technology economy.

Jane Larson
The Arizona Republic

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