Tech Transfer
Technology Transfer is the process of transferring knowledge and materials from one organization to another to promote the further development and commercialization of technology.


 

What is Technology Transfer?


Technology Transfer is the process of transferring knowledge and materials from one organization to another to promote the further development and commercialization of technology. 


NCI’s Technology Transfer Center (TTC) manages technology transfer for intramural and extramural investigators

  • Each lab has a Technology Transfer Manager (TTM) assigned to it
  • To find your TTM:
    • Click here if you are CCR
    • Click here if you are DCEG

Contact Information:

Email: ncitechtransfer@mail.nih.gov

Website: https://techtransfer.cancer.gov/

 TTC Shady Grove

9609 Medical Center Drive
Room 1E-530, MSC 9702
Rockville, MD 20850
Phone: 240-276-5530

TTC Frederick

8490 Progress Drive
Riverside 5, Suite 400
Frederick, MD 21701
Phone: 301-624-8775

How you can work with TTC:

Talk with us about ways to promote development of your inventions and ideas or to facilitate research collaborations

  • When you want to collaborate with an outside (or inside) party to develop a technology
    • Confidential Disclosure Agreement (CDA)
    • Collaboration Agreement (CA)
    • Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA)
  • When you have an invention to report (or if you’re unsure, contact your TTM)
    • Employee Invention Report (EIR)
      • Timing is important!
        • Contact your TTM 3 months before any public disclosure (abstract, publication, presentation, etc.)
    • Patenting
      • Maintain your research notebooks in a manner that supports patenting
      • Update TTC about scientific projects related to patent-pending technologies
    • Licensing
      • Forward licensing leads or inquiries from commercial entities
  • When you want to send or receive materials and/or data
    • Material Transfer Agreement (MTA)
    • Data Transfer Agreement (DTA)
  • When you want to run a clinical trial
    • Clinical Trial Agreement (CTA)
    • Clinical CRADA

Presentation archive:

  1. What should SS/SCs know about technology transfer?
    Seminar organized by CCR SSSC Professional Development Committee in conjunction with, Aida Cremesti, PhD and Laura Prestia, PhD, from NCI’s Technology Transfer Center (TTC) on July 15, 2020
    Topics:
    • Overview of the technology transfer process
    • Material Transfer Agreements (MTAs)
    • Cooperative Research and Development Agreements (CRADAs)
    • Technology transfer training/programs and discussion for future opportunities 

 

 

 

 

 

Last updated by Michalowski, Aleksandra (NIH/NCI) [E] on Jul 15, 2020