ScienceValue Heidelberg will handle tech transfer on behalf of the medicine faculty, after the contract with Heidelberg University Hospital-controlled TTH broke down.
Heidelberg University has established a wholly-owned tech transfer office called ScienceValue Heidelberg to handle, initially, the commercialisation of research at its Faculty of Medicine, Rhein-Neckar-Zeitung reported today.
Technology Transfer Heidelberg (TTH), a tech transfer company majority-owned by Heidelberg University Hospital, was responsible for the duties but has had its contract pulled following misleading blood test results at its cancer diagnostics spinout Heiscreen.
The saga ostensibly led Heidelberg University to lose faith in TTH’s abilities and made the decision…
