The Parker H. Petit Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience at Georgia Tech

Georgia Tech The Parker H. Petit Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience Creating Opportunities for the Future

Industry Program

Partnership and Commercialization Opportunities

  • Partner with industry to develop enabling technologies to serve the tissue engineering and emerging regenerative medicine industry on a clinically relevant scale.
  • Provide a forum where industry and faculty can exchange ideas, establish relationships and discuss collaborations.
  • Deliver innovative education initiatives that generate scientists and engineers who will provide leadership in biology-based industries.
  • Implement effective technology transfer and commercialization of innovative research.

We invite you to contact us to discuss your product and research interests. The Georgia Tech/Emory Center for the Engineering of Living Tissue (GTEC) facilitates the transformation of promising therapies, devices, and diagnostics into products, via spin-off companies, licensees and equity partnerships.

Potential Commercialization Areas:
  • animal models
  • bioreactors
  • cell encapsulation
  • novel biomaterials
  • regenerative medicine
  • stem cell biology
  • tissue biomechanics
  • tissue engineering

Our Advantage: Individual Attention

Poster Session with Industry Partners

Our manager for Industry Relations will focus on understanding both industry requirements and Georgia Tech's researcher's objectives in the promotion of our innovative technologies worldwide. In addition, they will assist in negotiating intellectual property-based licenses.

Our goal is to ensure that our exceptional technologies continue to be utilized and have an impact by successfully making the transition to the marketplace. In order to succeed, we must find the appropriate partnerships and direct them to the specialized resources at Georgia Tech so we can continue responding to short-term technological challenges as well as long-term goals, such as commercialization. We believe that the individual attention that will be given to your company by our manager of Industry Relations is just one advantage that our program offers.

Dr. Robert Nerem, Director of IBB

"Our goal is to ensure that our exceptional technologies continue to be utilized and have an impact by successfully making the transition to the marketplace."

Robert M. Nerem, Director

Industry Contacts

Robert M. Nerem, PhD
Director of IBB and GTEC
Phone: 404.894.2228
Ravi Bellamkonda
Deputy Director of Research for GTEC
Phone: 404.385.5038
W. Robert Taylor
Deputy Director of Research for GTEC
Katharine Caesar Montgomery
Industrial Relations and Tech Transfer Manager
Phone: 404.385.2105