The 12th annual Innovation Week to celebrate and recognize world-class research and discovery at the UNMC and the University of Nebraska at Omaha, kicks off on Oct. 22.
All events are free and open to the public, but the awards banquet is an invitation-only event. Further details can be found on the Innovation Week page.
Hosted by UNeMEd, the UNMC/UNO technology transfer and commercialization office, Innovation Week kicks off at 9 a.m. Oct. 22 in the Durham Research Center atrium. The kickoff is an open house where guests can meet and mingle with UNeMed staff and get a free UNeMed T-shirt, coffee and other items.
Other Innovation Week events include the Innovation Awards, an Invent-A-Thon and an expert seminar about moving from academia to the industrial workplace.
Innovation Week’s main event is on Oct. 25, when UNeMed hosts the Research Innovation Awards Banquet. The ceremony will recognize UNMC and UNO inventors who were issued a new patent, licensed a technology, or developed a new invention over the previous year.
UNeMed also will present special awards for the “Most Promising New Invention” of 2018 and the “Innovator of the Year.”
The ceremony will be at the Sorrell Center in the Truhlsen Campus Events Center beginning at 5 p.m. Contact UNeMed to request an invitation.
On Oct. 26, the campus is invited to attend the following events, which will cap Innovation Week:
- A seminar, “Moving into the Pharmaceutical Industry-Can the Dark Side Be Bright for You?” Prabhavathi Fernandes, Ph.D., will discuss the path that led her through an impressive 35-year career in pharmaceutical discovery and development — which included leadership roles at Bristol-Myers Squibb and Abbott Laboratories. Her talk will begin at 2 p.m. in the Durham Research Center Auditorium.
- Final presentations from the 3D Invent-A-Thon. Sponsored by the McGoogan Library of Medicine, the 3D Invent-A-Thon is a weeklong competition among teams of area high school students who will attempt to solve a real-world health care problem using the latest in 3D printing and design. The teams will present their solutions to a panel of judges at 5 p.m. in the Linder Reading Room at the Sorrell Center. Prizes will be awarded the winners, and a short reception will follow.