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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div align=center><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width=626 style='width:469.5pt'><tr><td style='padding:0in 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;line-height:125%'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:125%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><img width=494 height=81 id="_x0000_i1025" src="cid:image001.png@01CD47E1.40F20930" alt="Description: Image"><o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr><tr><td style='padding:0in 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:125%'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:125%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr><tr><td style='padding:0in 0in 0in 0in'><p align=center style='text-align:center;line-height:125%'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:125%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Technology Commercialization Brown Bag</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:125%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><br>sponsored by the<br>UH Center for Industrial Partnerships<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align=center style='text-align:center;line-height:125%'><span class=larger1><span style='font-size:16.5pt;line-height:125%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>TAKING INVENTIONS</span></span><span style='font-size:16.5pt;line-height:125%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><br><span class=larger1>TO THE MARKETPLACE</span></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:125%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><br></span><span class=medium1><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>By Dan Watkins, PhD</span></span><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><br><span class=medium1>Managing Director, DFJ Mercury</span></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:125%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p align=center style='text-align:center;line-height:125%'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:125%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>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<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='line-height:125%'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:125%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>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.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='line-height:125%'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:125%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Open to UH faculty, staff, and students. Feel free to circulate this announcement among the UH community. No cost to attend.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='line-height:125%'><u><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:125%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>About Dan Watkins</span></u><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:125%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><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).<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='line-height:125%'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:125%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Dan received his Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='line-height:125%'><u><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:125%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>About the Center for Industrial Partnerships</span></u><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:125%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><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.<o:p></o:p></span></p><div style='border:none;border-top:solid black 1.0pt;padding:6.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p style='line-height:125%' id=signature><span style='font-size:8.5pt;line-height:125%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>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>713-743-9155<br><a href="mailto:eschuler@uh.edu">eschuler@uh.edu</a><o:p></o:p></span></p></div></td></tr></table></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>