Innovation Overground

Stronger than steel. More conductive than copper. Able to flex around corners with a single strand. Yes, it’s graphene, the super-material that can power optical detectors, make nanoparticle drug delivery systems. Tyler Scheer, mild-mannered scientist in the great field of technology transfer, describes the University of Florida’s never-ending fight for truth, justice and the graphene way. And now, another exciting episode in the adventures of Innovation Overground!       

Featured Technology: http://www.research.usf.edu/dpl/content/data/PDF/13A032.pdf; http://technologies.tt.research.ucf.edu/technologies/33758_monolayer-graphene-optical-detector-offers-exceptional-light-absorption  

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/

Academic research doesn’t just happen at universities. The Overground tips its hat to Veterans Affairs, the Department of Defense and all the cool research laboratories outside of the academic-industrial complex. The first stop on the tour: Techlink, a technology transfer source for federal researchers that shows how the U.S. Army is leading the way in the fight against Ebola... and drowsiness.  

Featured Technology: https://techlinkcenter.org/technologies/2b-alert-personalized-alertness-cognitive-performance-app/; https://techlinkcenter.org/zmapp-trials-restarted-as-ebola-outbreak-persists-in-congo/ 

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/

Academic research doesn’t just happen at universities. The Overground tips its hat to Veterans Affairs, the Department of Defense and all the cool research laboratories outside of the academic-industrial complex. The first stop on the tour: Techlink, a technology transfer source for federal researchers that shows how the U.S. Army is leading the way in the fight against Ebola... and drowsiness.  

Featured Technology: https://techlinkcenter.org/technologies/2b-alert-personalized-alertness-cognitive-performance-app/; https://techlinkcenter.org/zmapp-trials-restarted-as-ebola-outbreak-persists-in-congo/ 

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 pushes the boundaries of what it means to do surgery—and fight the opioid crisis—with a virtual reality and augmented reality mash-up. 

 Featured Technology: https://www.unemed.com/product/laparoscopic-simulator; https://www.vrfitnessinsider.com/hypnovr-gets-funded-vr-hypnosis-creates-alternative-medical-treatments/; https://www.unemed.com/news/meet-next-generation-laparoscopic-simulators 

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 gang finally lets Tyler out of his cage to discuss...yup, 3D-printing. It turns out 3D printing can make just about everything: semiconductors, human nerves and something called bone flaps.  

Featured Technology: http://puotl.technologypublisher.com/technology/27443;  http://puotl.technologypublisher.com/technology/20461 

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/

Did your life go exactly as planned? The Association of University Technology Managers (AUTM) is a trade group of technology transfer professionals that trains scientists and lawyers to do all the things discussed on the Overground. The Overground discusses how they ended up in this hybrid career; the difficulties of subverting career expectation; and seductive pull of transferring technology.  

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/

We ask a lot of our listeners, but trust us, stay with us on this one. Either billionaires are going to own all the data, or we all are. Tyler's gift for analogy goes into fifth gear as he cracks open the book of life...and looks at the pictures? The Overground wrestles with difficult questions about what can be done with bioinformatics data; who owns it; and what it means to be a healthy human.  

Featured Technology: https://www.ukbiobank.ac.uk/; https://www.nature.com/articles/s42003-019-0290-0; https://www.nature.com/articles/s41588-018-0311-9  

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 next generation internet-of-things/augmented-reality/blender-resistant-cellphone-network ain’t going to make itself, people! If 5G is going to change everything—and it might definitely maybe—then there’s still a lot of stuff to figure out, and universities are leading the way. Joe goes on a tour of fascinating university technologies that will help blaze the 5G trail, and Charlie combats foreign intelligence with amateur dermatology.

Featured Technology: https://gtp.autm.net/public/project/39608/  http://www.ece.louisville.edu/hzeng/aj.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/

Listen in as Tyler explains how researchers can teach human immune cells to fight tumors in a new approach that cancer cells hate: CAR-T therapy. Tyler breaks down how cell re-education and mutation can teach our immune systems to hunt down and brutally murder all the naughty cancer bits.

Featured Technology: Link coming soon! 

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 finally introduces NUTech Ventures and the magical work of Dr. Dennis Alexander who uses lasers to create structures inspired by shark skins, rose petals and moth eyes. Join the crew as they marvel at lasers that can make ice-defying airplane wings, weatherproof telephone cables and camera lenses that repel water...while under water.

Featured Technology: httpsanews.unl.edu/newsrooms/today/article/alexander-taps-lasers-to-mimic-shark-skin-other-natural-surfaces/ 

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/