<span style="FONT-WEIGHT:bold">Technology Commercialization Brown Bag</span><br>
sponsored by the<br>
UH Center for Industrial Partnerships
<p><span>TAKING INVENTIONS<br>
TO THE MARKETPLACE</span><br>
<span>By Dan Watkins, PhD<br>
Managing Director, DFJ Mercury</span></p>
<p>Hosted by Emmanuelle Schuler, PhD<br>
Director, Center for Industrial Partnerships<br>
<br>
Wednesday, June 13, 2012<br>
12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m.<br>
Rockwell Pavilion, M.D. Anderson Library</p>
<p>While inventions create many business opportunities, they only bear
fruit after they have been advanced to a point where they are ready to
be accepted and needed by the markets. This transition from the lab to
the marketplace is complex and involves partners, the least of which are
investors. Dr. Dan Watkins, Managing Director at DFJ Mercury, a seed
and startup venture capital firm, will discuss how to best handle this
process and will provide tips to inventors.</p>
<p>Kindly RSVP to Helaine Guillory at <a href="tel:713-743-9922" value="+17137439922" target="_blank">713-743-9922</a> or <a href="mailto:hguillory@uh.edu" target="_blank">hguillory@uh.edu</a>
no later than June 7, 2012. Open to UH faculty, staff, and students.
Feel free to circulate this announcement among the UH community. No cost
to attend.</p>
<p><u>About Dan Watkins</u><br>
Dan's focus is commercialization of early stage physical sciences and
life sciences technologies that originate from research universities and
regional technology incubators. Prior to co-founding DFJ Mercury, he
was the founder of A3 Associates, a Houston-based venture firm focused
on seed-stage investments in university technology transfer
opportunities. In this capacity, Dan was instrumental in starting
DNAtrix (UT M.D. Anderson), and Nanospectra Biosciences (Rice
University).</p>
<p>Dan received his Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University.</p>
<p><u>About the Center for Industrial Partnerships</u><br>
The CIP is committed to growing UH research enterprise and to
disseminating knowledge and best practices in innovation and research
commercialization. The CIP is part of the Division of Research at the
University of Houston.</p>
<p>Emmanuelle Schuler, Ph.D.<br>
Director<br>
Center for Industrial Partnerships<br>
Division of Research<br>
University of Houston<br>
A Carnegie-designated Tier One public research university<br>
<a href="tel:713-743-9155" value="+17137439155" target="_blank">713-743-9155</a><br>
<a href="mailto:eschuler@uh.edu" target="_blank">eschuler@uh.edu</a></p><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Fritz Claydon Ph.D.<br>Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering<br>Associate Dean of Administration and Research<br>
University of Houston<br>Cullen College of Engineering<br>713.743.4204<br><a href="mailto:fclaydon@uh.edu" target="_blank">fclaydon@uh.edu</a><br><br><p>
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