Innovation Overground

Discount neighborhood ophthalmology got you down? Losing faith in off-label, anti-fungal medication to degenerative vision disorders? Midwestern eye innovation to the rescue! Join the Overground as they discuss next generation cell-based therapies, different flavors of stem cells and retinal sod. Also: cybernetic eyes.  

Featured Technologies: https://www.mwdrugdevelopment.com/speakers/treat-macular-degeneration/; https://www.mwdrugdevelopment.com/speakers/treat-macular-degeneration/;  https://www.statnews.com/2019/01/16/stem-cell-therapies-macular-degeneration/; Brain implant partially restores vision: https://www.bcm.edu/news/neurosurgery/second-sight-study-brings-sight-to-blind. 

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

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

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

How is lifesaving surgery like a trip to Lowes? The Overground looks to new innovations in orthopedic surgery and discusses how bioabsorbable bone fixation will change lives; how in the future implants will be made from medicine and the innovation best described as: “rammer jammer yellow hammer.”  

Featured Technologies: https://www.cartilagen.com/ Bioresorbable orthopedic implants: https://aim.autm.net/public/project/48069/ 

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

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

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

The Overground crew turns it over to Tyler...and things get nerdy! Learn the four layers of structural organization of the Sid Vicious of biomolecules, the Mick Jagger of cell biology, the Bono of structure-function biology: Proteins!  

Featured Technologies: Peptide-based methods to treat neurological injury https://content.cu.edu/amctech/show_tech.cfm?T=2050686&s=at Hormone analogs for hypoparathyroidism https://www.warf.org/technologies/summary/P130312US03.cmsx 

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

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

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

The gang discusses new appraoches to potentially lethal allergic reactions and overactive immune systems. 

Featured Technologies: Cutting and pasting is hard. Please send detailed how-to instructions and step-by-step video tutorials to Joe and Tyler at [email protected] and [email protected]. 

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

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

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

The Overground is back! The gang returns from a two-week break to discuss the scientific chops—and the ultimate medical value—of ancient herbal remedies as key components in new, modern medicines. 

Featured Technologies: https://ctc.ku.edu/available-technology/359; https://www.famu.edu/DOR_division_of_research/Soliman%20and%20Mazzio%20-%207357950%20and%207666451.pdf

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

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

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

Happy Halloween! Join the crew on a haunted tour of our favorite scary technologies and non-polyploidy foodie apples of the moment. You’ll wish you had the longevity of a gourde so you could listen again and again.

Featured Technologies: https://inventions.prf.org/innovation/6902;  

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

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

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

On this episode the crew tackles the age-old question of nature vs nurture. Charlie’s parenting skills are tried in the dual crucible of DNA testing and psychological profiling!  

Featured Technologies: https://orig3n.com/;  

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

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

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

Join the crew during UNeMed’s Innovation Week as they reminisce on some of their favorite University of Nebraska technologies from this past year!   

Featured Technologies: https://www.unemed.com/product/pde4b-selective-inhibitors;  

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

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

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

On this episode, the crew discusses agricultural applications of CRISPR gene-editing technology. Come for the cool new CRISPR tech, stay for the flappy corn! 

Featured Technologies: https://techtransfer.universityofcalifornia.edu/NCD/28790.html;  

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

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

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

Join the crew on the first-ever Startup Pitch Contest, where Joe and Tyler pitch hypothetical startups based on real university technologies. Charlie has nosey neighbors, Joe outlines the problem, Tyler faceplants on the pivot, and like another famous extemporaneous show, the points don’t matter! 

Featured Technologies: http://innovation.columbia.edu/technologies/CU14173_adaptable-anonymization-techniques;  

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

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

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