RESOURCES

We offer a list of helpful external resources. Also, be sure to browse the presentations from the Knight Campus Entrepreneurship Speaker Series below.

Content Type

Misc.

Partner Organizations

SBIR/STTR

Startup Basics

Resource	Category	Description
Bay area I-Corps Program	Misc.	Trains early stage teams to find a scalable business model.
Collaborative EDO, Eugene	Partner Organizations	Nonprofit economic development organization that works to accelerate the creation of high wage jobs in Lane County.
Nucleate	Partner Organizations	Student-led organization that represents the largest global community of bio-innovators.
ONAMI	Partner Organizations	Where academia, business and government come together to accelerate research and bring breakthrough ideas to market.
Oregon Bioscience Incubator	Partner Organizations	Translating scientific research developed in the state of Oregon’s research laboratories into commercial ventures.
Oregon Clinical and Translational Research Institute	Partner Organizations	Providing support in the critical stages of clinical and translational research.
Oregon Entrepreneurs Network	Partner Organizations	OEN helps entrepreneurs by connecting them to peers and mentors, startup funding opportunities, and hands-on training.
Technology Association of Oregon	Partner Organizations	Supporting entrepreneurs and connecting peers and decision-makers to establish the Northwest as a global hub for innovation.
"From the Sources’ Mouth"	SBIR/STTR	Monthly series featuring SBIR/STTR program managers telling you what you need to know to have success with their agencies.
Business Oregon Matching Grants	SBIR/STTR	Periodically accepts applications for matching grants of either federal Phase I SBIR/STTR awards or Phase II awards.
Department of Defense	SBIR/STTR	Encouraging domestic small businesses to engage in research and development with the potential for commercialization.
Department of Education	SBIR/STTR	ED/IES SBIR provides up to $1.25M in funding in 2 phases.
Department of Energy	SBIR/STTR	U. S. Government programs, intended to help certain small businesses conduct R&D. At DOE, funding takes the form of grants. Projects must have the potential for commercialization and meet specific DOE mission-specific R&D needs.
National Institute of Health	SBIR/STTR	Focus on a variety of technologies ranging from research tools to diagnostics, digital health, drugs, medical devices, and more.
National Science Foundation	SBIR/STTR	Transforming scientific and engineering discoveries into products and services with commercial and societal impact.
Cap Table 101	Startup Basics	Dive into the world of cap tables—how they work, types of equity offered, calculating ownership percentages, and more.
Starting a Startup	Startup Basics	How to spin your scientific research out of a university and into a startup.
Startup Incorporation	Startup Basics	Types of corporations and how to incorporate your startup.

Academic Founder Journeys

A selection of presentations from the Knight Campus Entrepreneurship Speaker Series. These speakers' journeys exemplify the variety of entrepreneurial experiences and innovative work supported by Launch Oregon.

Chris and Fenella Raymond

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The Raymonds shared their experiences with several different business startups from the somewhat unique perspective of being business as well as life partners.

Chris Gibson

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Chris Gibson highlights the serendipity of science and failure, and the role each played in the journey he took from an MD/PhD student to CEO of a multibillion-dollar public biotech company in seven short years.

Samantha Zyontz

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Samantha Zyontz discussed how CRISPR (Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats) has profoundly influenced innovation in a range of applications around the world. Her analysis of CRISPR academic articles, patents, companies, and clinical trials highlights an explosion of innovative related activities since the technology’s introduction.

Jennifer Elisseeff

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Jennifer Elisseeff discussed regenerative immunology and the role of technology translation in guiding discoveries. She is currently working to understand the role of the immune system and cellular senescence in the biomaterial response and repair across different tissues. This new therapeutic target serves as the basis for the design of regenerative immunotherapies.

Janis Weeks

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An expert in neuroplasticity and infectious and parasitic diseases, Weeks spoke about her journey from academia to biotech.

Carolyn Bertozzi

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Carolyn Bertozzi discussed how her research in glycoscience could lead to new therapeutic strategies.

Michele Marcolongo

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Michele Marcolongo discussed the roadmap for translating technology to product launch, as well as how to execute the necessary steps to create and launch a start-up company. In addition to her extensive work in academia, Dr. Marcolongo is a successful entrepreneur who has co-founded three biomedical technology startup companies and is a co-holder of 15 patents/patent applications.

Kate Rosenbluth

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Kate Rosenbluth shared the story of founding and building a growth startup from spin-out through product launch. She spun Cala Health out from Stanford on a scientific moonshot to deliver a new class of bioelectronic therapies that use wearable devices to deliver non-invasive neuromodulation for major chronic diseases.