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BioHouston – BioHouston’s mission is to create an environment that will stimulate technology transfer and research commercialization, thereby generating economic wealth for the Houston region and making it a global competitor in life science commercialization. BioHouston provides the administrative support for our monthly meetings as the BioHouston Device Manufacturing Roundtable. BioHouston is our host for Device 101 courses. For more information contact www.biohouston.org

Houston Technology Center - HTC's mission is to accelerate the growth of emerging technology companies, communicate Houston's technology successes, and Educate entrepreneurs and the underserved communities of Houston in order to help "bridge the digital divide." The Houston Technology Center collaborates with the GCMDM to connect emerging life science companies in the region to necessary resources to educate and commercialize medical devices. For more information contact www.houstontech.org

Rice Alliance for Technology and Entrepreneurship - The Rice Alliance for Technology and Entrepreneurship (Rice Alliance) is Rice University's flagship initiative devoted to the support of technology entrepreneurship. The Rice Alliance is a collaboration among the Brown School of Engineering, the Jones Graduate School of Management, and the Wiess School of Natural Science.

Since its inception in late-1999, the Rice Alliance has assisted in the launch over 175 new technology companies, which have raised more than $300 million in early stage funding. The mission of the Rice Alliance is to conduct research and support the creation of technology-based companies and the commercialization of new technologies. The Rice Alliance provides entrepreneurs with a collaborative network and forum for support, education, and exchange of ideas. It offers entrepreneurs access to the human and financial capital needed for success. For more information contact www.alliance.rice.edu

University of Houston Center for Industrial Partnerships - The Center for Industrial Partnerships (CIP) is an organization whose purpose is to facilitate research across the UH campuses with off-campus researchers and industry. It will link education and research at the undergraduate and graduate levels more closely with industrial sponsorship. It will assist in translating basic research to applications, while it is still evolving in the laboratory. This approach is aligned with national trends at leading universities and will begin to position the UH system at the forefront of collaborative research in a key metropolitan environment.

The Center will build value because the technology will be incubated and developed in concert with market-driven companies. The technology, therefore, will be more closely tied to the market place. The Center also will provide a more certain path from discovery to application.

Moreover, it will strengthen our overall competitiveness. The National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health are stressing the types of partnerships this Center will facilitate to speed the translation of research into commercial applications, while training the workforce of tomorrow.

For more information contact: www.uh.edu/cip