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Rutgers Sponsored Research andTechnology Transfer

Michael Breton, Ph.D

Associate Vice President for Research

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Science Transformed byWorld War II

• 1944: Vannevar Bush asked by Roosevelt how the federal government should proceed in funding research after the successes of World War II

• 1945: Bush produced: Science – The Endless Frontier• 1950: The National Science Foundation was founded

on the basis of this report• First year NSF budget = $3.5 million• 1950 - present: The federal role in funding basic

research, primarily through universities, has been growing and evolving ever since.

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5Federal Funding is at the Base of Technological Innovation

Rutgers Increase in Federal Funding

Fiscal

Year

Federal Amount

Percent of Total

Total Funding

2000 $107.4 57.8 $185.8

2001 $122.8 55.2 $222.4

2002 $132.9 54.8 $242.4

2003 $151.6 58.6 $258.6

2004 $158.5 61.0 $259.8

2005 $171.3 58.0 $295.5

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Federal58.0%

($171.3)

Corporations6.9%

($20.3)

State of New Jersey14.9%

($44.0)

Associations &Foundations

20.3%($59.9)

External Funding by Funding SourcePreliminary FY 2005

(In Millions of Dollars)

Total External Funding $295,498,035

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Office of Research and Sponsored Programs (ORSP)

• Advises and assists members of the Rutgers Community who are engaged in scholarly and creative activities

• Provides information, services and support so that members of the Rutgers Community can compete successfully for outside funding

• Ensures accountability, compliance and stewardship for sponsored programs in accordance with applicable Federal, State, and University policies, procedures and regulations.

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9Compliance Group:Human Subjects in Research

Humane Care and Use of Animals

10Pre Award Unit

11Training and Information Provided by ORSP

• Grantnet

• Business Managers Meetings and topics posted to website

• E-submissions (NSF Fastlane, Grants.gov and others )

• Grant and Proposal Writing Workshops

• Proposal and Budgeting Basics

• Check our website and stay informed of these

opportunities

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COEUS Grants Administration System

• Provides an electronic grants preparation and processing environment

• Two major components:– Comprehensive proposal and awards database

– Electronic grant preparation and transmission

• Not an accounting system (need DGCA for that)• Eventually will interface with grants.gov and any

other federal electronic grants submission system

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Resources• ORSP Website (http://orsp.rutgers.edu)

– Basic proposal information / data– Agency forms– Policies– Budget Template (Excel spreadsheet)

• Staff Contact Information– Grant/Contract Specialists

• Deadline reminder – ORSP requires one week notice prior to your

submission deadline to ensure accuracy and completeness of your proposal

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Rutgers Technology Transfer

• Office organized in 1988• Goals and priorities:

– Supports the primary university missions of education and research

– Service to the Faculty

– Financial Return to the University

• Bridge between two cultures:– World of Business and Commerce

– Discovery based university research

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Licensing Income

• Net Licensing Income:– In FY 1991 = $218 million– In FY 2003 = $1.31 billion

• Licenses/options yielding income:– In FY 1991 = 2,602– In FY 2003 = 10,682

• Licenses yielding $1 million or more in FY 2003:– 151 at 59 institutions or 0.6 % of all active licenses

• 3 institutions had 10 licenses yielding $1 million or more

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Rutgers Technology Transfer

• Has had 6 technologies exceed $1 million in revenue to the university

• Has about $5 million per year in revenue• Has about 35 patents issue per year• Established the:

– Rutgers Venture Advisory Council

• Has engaged recently in intensive company startup activity

17Cumulative Revenues (royalty and equity)1996-2005

Company Business Type Cum TotalEnzon Pharmaceuticals $ 6,033,375

Monsanto/Calgene Biotechnology 4,760,478

Jersey Asparagus Agriculture 3,009,726

Scientific Learning Educational Software 3,415,776

US Plastic Lumber Building Materials 1,334,035

T-Netix Voice Recog Software 1,158,500

Hybrid Dogwood Trees Agriculture 1,215,206

Intellectual Ventures Business Development 974,330

Teoma/Ask Jeeves Web Search Engine 647,209

Diagnostics and Dev Medical Devices 599,121

Integra Lifesciences Biomaterials 341,632

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Amt All

Univ

Public

Univ

No Med

School

Disclosures 174 20 13 6

Licenses 19 56 38 14

Cum Act Lic 229 28 17 6

Patent Apps 114 32 16 6

Patents Issued 34 26 (t) 14 6

New Rsrch $2.7 m 10 6 2

Patent Income $5.3 m 36 20 4

Average Rank 29.7 17.7 6.3

How Rutgers RankedFY 2003 AUTM Statistics

19University Technology Transfer in New Jersey FY 2003

* FY 2001 data

Licensing Revenue

Licenses Disclosures Patent Apps

Patents Issued

Rutgers $5,347,943 19 174 101 34

Princeton $1,742,000* 18 82 98 38

NJIT $16,085 6 28 27 5

UMDNJ $331,592 7 74 NA 13

Columbia $141,217,587 45 248 109 55

NYU $85,933,234 24 93 63 21

U Penn $10,240,086 83 321 153 50

U Md (CP) $788,460 24 100 17 20

Temple $674,494 0 16 24 7

Total (198) $968,120,572 3,855 13,718 7,203 3,450

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New Company Startups

• Rutgers has licensed to more than 40 startup or early stage companies since 1989

• Two kinds:– Organized by others and Rutgers agrees to license

either during the startup process or later; equity share usually small, <10%

– Organized by Rutgers:• Recruit management team• Participate in setting initial business model• Underwrite certain initial startup costs• Take substantial equity share, >10%

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Technology Commercialization Fund

• Rutgers is raising $1-2 million in donations to establish a fund to support:– Early proof of concept research or development– Very early startup costs– Extraordinary patent costs

• Cannot be angel or venture money which is tied to financial return

• Must fall under local administrative review and control in order to provide quick response to priority projects

• $325,000 awarded to fund from the NJCST; will support both Rutgers and non-Rutgers projects

• $105,000 awarded from the Merck Foundation