Innovation Overground

Innovation is made of little, broken plastic parts. The Overground crew discuss Joe’s favorite thing: the long game of commercializing university inventions. Joe then recounts the story of the Intuitool, an innovative articulating laparoscopic surgical tool. 

Featured Technology: Intuitool laparascopic device (News, "UNMC, UNL develop unique surgical tool:" https://www.unmc.edu/news.cfm?match=2099; Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kaHPc2MKd7k 

Hosts: Charlie Litton (@charlielitton); Tyler Scherr (@dare2scherr); Joe Runge (@HJRunge) 

Sponsor:  UNeMed (https://www.unemed.com); @UNeMed 

Music: Countdown to Myocardial Infarction, by Peter Gresser. Used with permission. http://sonofactori.com/

The best ideas often come from...somewhere else. The Overground crew discuss how good inventions become great through better collaboration. Joe tells the story of Avert, a startup that simplifies biomechanics to better detect and manage concussions. 

Featured Technology: Avert: http://getavert.com/  

Hosts: Charlie Litton (@charlielitton); Tyler Scherr (@dare2scherr); Joe Runge (@HJRunge) 

Sponsor:  UNeMed (https://www.unemed.com); @UNeMed 

Music: Countdown to Myocardial Infarction, by Peter Gresser. Used with permission. http://sonofactori.com/

We know science is hard but, man, science is hard. Tyler discusses the difficulty of reproducing results, especially in biological research. Joe dishes on a technology that is reliably reproducible in multiple labs...and why that’s sometimes still not enough.  

Featured Technology: Antimicrobial Peptides: https://www.unemed.com/product/antimicrobial-peptides  

Hosts: Charlie Litton (@charlielitton); Tyler Scherr (@dare2scherr); Joe Runge (@HJRunge) 

Sponsor:  UNeMed (https://www.unemed.com); @UNeMed 

Music: Countdown to Myocardial Infarction, by Peter Gresser. Used with permission. http://sonofactori.com/

The bounds of the human imagination are limitless and so is the scope of what we can create. Despite that, Tyler details how applied 3D printing makes small, iterative inventions much more feasible. The Overground crew also discusses cramming needles and hooks into the eyes of children and other fun stuff. 

Featured Technology: Precision Syringe: https://www.unemed.com/product/precision-injection-syringe; Video: https://youtu.be/H47FEQErz7A 

Hosts: Charlie Litton (@charlielitton); Tyler Scherr (@dare2scherr); Joe Runge (@HJRunge) 

Sponsor:  UNeMed (https://www.unemed.com); @UNeMed 

Music: Countdown to Myocardial Infarction, by Peter Gresser. Used with permission. http://sonofactori.com/

Some inventors must innovate to innovate. Sounds like gibberish, but the Overground crew explains that medical innovations sometimes require new measurements and models. Listen in as they share the fascinating story behind a novel improvement to an old procedure for kidney failure. 

Featured Technologies: AV Fistula Maturation Device (Blog, "Innovate to innovate: "https://www.unemed.com/blog/new-yardsticks-new-ideas; Blog, "Vein and arteries are't just pipes:" https://www.unemed.com/blog/veins-arteries-just-pipes-right; Product Page: https://www.unemed.com/product/av-fistula-maturation)

Hosts: Charlie Litton (@charlielitton); Tyler Scherr (@dare2scherr); Joe Runge (@HJRunge) 

Sponsor:  UNeMed (https://www.unemed.com); @UNeMed 

Music: Countdown to Myocardial Infarction, by Peter Gresser. Used with permission. http://sonofactori.com/

Everyone has a take on CRISPR. Join the Overground crew as they provide a brief overview of CRISPR and its current limits on curing diseases and creating rampaging supervillains. The trio then discuss how Easi-CRISPR, a technology jointly invented at UNMC and the University of Tokai, neatly fills in the current limits of genome editing for both applications.  

Featured Technologies: Easi-CRISPR (https://www.unemed.com/product/crispr-cas9-editing-tool & https://www.unemed.com/product/easi-crispr-therapeutic)

Hosts: Charlie Litton (@charlielitton); Tyler Scherr (@dare2scherr); Joe Runge (@HJRunge) 

Sponsor:  UNeMed (https://www.unemed.com); @UNeMed 

Music: Countdown to Myocardial Infarction, by Peter Gresser. Used with permission. http://sonofactori.com/

Leading leaders and leaderly things they do. Maybe. The Overground hosts discuss what it means to be a leader within the university technology transfer arena, highlight some ways in which UNeMed tries to lead and share some behind-the-scenes basics. 

Featured Technologies: UNeMed Salesforce (https://techtransfercentral.com/2018/02/07/unemed-took-the-tto-data-bull-by-the-horns-and-created-its-own-customized-solution/); NeuroFreeze (https://www.mdbioproducts.com/products/neuroscience/neurofreeze ) 

Hosts: Charlie Litton (@charlielitton); Tyler Scherr (@dare2scherr); Joe Runge (@HJRunge) 

Sponsor:  UNeMed (https://www.unemed.com); @UNeMed 

Music: Countdown to Myocardial Infarction, by Peter Gresser. Used with permission. http://sonofactori.com/

Hosts Charlie Litton, Joe Runge and Tyler Scherr begin the Innovation Overground podcast series by busting a few technology transfer myths, and discuss some misunderstood aspects of commercializing university research and innovations. The trio also discusses the value of moving publicly funded research into things on a store shelf, and point out that an innovation doesn't have to be a big idea to make a life-altering impact.

Featured Technologies: Suh Strabismus Muscle Hook, Suh Strabismus Needle Holder, Suh Botox Forceps

Hosts: Charlie Litton (http://twitter.com/charlielitton); Tyler Scherr (http://twitter.com/dare2scherr); Joe Runge

Sponsor: UNeMed (https://www.unemed.com); http://twitter.com/unemed

Music: Countdown to Myocardial Infarction, by Peter Gresser. Used with permission. http://sonofactori.com/