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Innovation Forum to feature early business ventures, April 20
Posted April 13, 2006; 03:27 p.m.
Fifteen Princeton scientists and engineers will talk about their
early-stage entrepreneurial ventures at an Innovation Forum at 5:30
p.m. Thursday, April 20, in the Friend Center Convocation Room.
John Ritter, director of the Office of Technology Licensing, will open
the forum with an overview of technology transfer at Princeton. Bill
Martin of the JumpStart New Jersey Angel Network, a group of private
venture capitalists, will moderate the event, which is open to the
public.
Researchers will give short presentations describing ventures that
spring from Princeton’s science and engineering laboratories. Among the
presenters:
• Jeffry Stock, professor of molecular biology and chemistry, will talk
about coffee extracts that may one day alleviate Alzheimer’s disease.
• Ivan Glesk, senior research scientist in electrical engineering, will discuss a compact holographic data storage system.
• William Happer, professor of physics, and his students will present their work on manufacturing miniature atomic clocks.
• Niraj Jha, professor of electrical engineering, will discuss research
on nanotubes that may revolutionize an important type of microchip.
At a reception following the event, forum presenters will be on hand to
answer questions about their ventures and display posters that
graphically explain their work.
The forum is sponsored by the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences’ Center for Innovation in Engineering Education, the JumpStart New Jersey Angel Network and the University’s Office of Research and Project Administration.