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William Brody, president of Johns Hopkins University and entrepreneur, will deliver the first lecture of the spring semester. This lecture is part of the 2nd Annual Fischell Festival of Bioengineering (April 10-11).
Lecture Date & Time:
April 10, 2008, 5 p.m.
Lecture preceded by reception at 4:30 p.m. |
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Abstract
In 1879, when Johns Hopkins chemistry professor (and later university president) Ira Remsen discovered saccharin, he declared he "wouldn't soil his hands" with industry by commercializing the new product. So instead his assistant Constantin Fahlberg took out the patent—and subsequently made a fortune.
Innovation is widely understood to be the driving force behind successful companies, and for many, the wellspring of wealth. What is the role of discovery, patenting and entrepreneurial initiative in academic research? How can we identify and support winning innovations that can succeed in the marketplace? Johns Hopkins University president Bill Brody has a unique perspective on technology transfer. He heads one of the nation’s leading discovery-generating enterprises (in the past 8 years, Hopkins researchers have disclosed 1,054 inventions and applied for 1,223 patents, leading to the creation of 17 new companies); he is a former board member of one of the nation’s leading medical device corporations; and he has personally participated in the creation of three separate medical device companies. From this wide-ranging experience Dr. Brody has developed a thought-provoking set of precepts—including "The Five Phases of Innovation" and "The Top Ten Ingredients in the Recipe for Success"—that suggest new ways of looking at discovery and innovation.
Biography
William R. Brody became the 13th president of The Johns Hopkins University on Sept. 1, 1996. Immediately prior to assuming the position, Dr. Brody was the provost of the Academic Health Center at the University of Minnesota. From 1987 to 1994, he was the Martin Donner Professor and director of the Department of Radiology, professor of electrical and computer engineering, and professor of biomedical engineering at Johns Hopkins, and radiologist-in-chief of The Johns Hopkins Hospital.
A native of Stockton, Calif., Dr. Brody received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in electrical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and his M.D. and Ph.D., also in electrical engineering, from Stanford University. Following post-graduate training in cardiovascular surgery and radiology at Stanford, the National Institutes of Health and the University of California, San Francisco, Dr. Brody was professor of radiology and electrical engineering at Stanford University (1977-1986). He has been a co-founder of three medical device companies, and served as the president and chief executive officer of Resonex Inc. from 1984 to 1987. He has over 100 publications and one U.S. patent in the field of medical imaging and has made contributions in medical acoustics, computed tomography, digital radiography and magnetic resonance imaging.
Dr. Brody serves as a trustee of The Commonwealth Fund and of the Baltimore Community Foundation. He serves on the board of directors of IBM. He is a member of the executive committee of the Council on Competitiveness, the International Academic Advisory Committee, Singapore, and the FBI's National Security Higher Education Advisory Board. He formerly served on the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board, on the board of the Minnesota Orchestra Association and on the Corporation of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dr. Brody is a member of the Institute of Medicine and the National Academy of Engineering, and a fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, the American College of Radiology, the American College of Cardiology, the American Heart Association, the International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, the American Institute of Biomedical Engineering, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Dr. Brody is a private pilot holding airline transport pilot and flight instructor ratings.
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William Brody
April 10, 2008
5 p.m.
1110 Kim Building
Upcoming Lecture:
April 17: Fred Schaufeld, NEW Customer Service Companies, Inc.
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