# Presentation: 512049

## NIH Funding Recipient Responsibilities 

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**	****February, 2004****	****	**
**	****Office of Technology Transfer**
**	****Office of the Director**
**	****National Institutes of Health**
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## Technology Transfer

- 	**Movement Of Information & Technologies From Research Findings To Practical Application-----**
**	****In General Research Use Or To Benefit ****	****Public Health**

## Methods

**Publishing Results/Information**
**Exchanging/Sharing Of Data**
**Sharing Of Research Resources/Materials**
**Patenting Technologies**
**Licensing Technologies**
**Collaborating With Colleagues**

## Office Of Technology Transfer

**Location: Office Of The Director, NIH**
**Mark Rohrbaugh, PhD, JD, Director**
**Staff Of 70 Persons—PhD, JD, MBA**

## Technology Transfer Mission

**Two Major Functions:**
**Development And Transfer**
**Policy **

## Development And Transfer

**Identify, Evaluate, Protect, Market And License Technologies To Achieve Agency Mission**
**Provide IP/TT Training To NIH Staff**
**Monitor Progress And Receive Royalty Payments**

## Policy

**Provide Policy Direction And Technical Assistance To Agency And Extramural Scientists And Administrators**
**Represent HHS On Technology Transfer Policy Issues**
**International**
**Intergovernmental**
**Interagency**

## Extramural Staff Activities

**Assist Program Staff In The Development Of RFA and RFP Announcements And DECs**
**Assist Reviewers And Staff In Understanding Technology Transfer And Intellectual Property Issues**
**Assist Grants and Contracts Officials To Enforce Laws, Regulations and Policies**

## Extramural Recipient Activities

**Assist Recipients In Adhering To To Enforce Laws, Regulations and Policies**
**Assist Companies To Understand NIH Policies**
**Negotiate Agreements For NIH And Recipients—CreLox; Onco Mouse; E-Stem Cells**

## Bayh-Dole Act 

**Prior To 1980**
**Thrust Of The Act**
**Requirements**

## Bayh-Dole Requirements

**Reporting Of Inventions**
**Election Of Title**
**Move To Practical Application**
**Notice On Patent Applications**
**March-In Authority**

## Sharing Of Research Resources

**1997 DR. VARMUS INITIATIVE**
**1999 PRINCIPLES AND GUIDELINES**
**2000 LEGISLATIVE CHANGE**
**To ensure that inventions made by non-profit organizations and small business firms are used in a manner to promote free competition and enterprise **_***without unduly encumbering future research and discovery***__**.**_
**2001 INCLUDED IN NIH GRANTS AND CONTRACTS**

## Principles

**Ensure Academic Freedom And Publication**
**Ensure Appropriate Implementation Of Bayh-Dole Act**
**Minimize Administrative Impediments To Research**
**Ensure Dissemination Of Research Resources Developed With NIH Funds**

## Guidelines

**   ****Purpose:**
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**   ****To Provide Specific Information, Strategies And Model Language For Recipient Institutions In Obtaining And Disseminating Biomedical Resources**

## Initiative Actions

**Site Visit University And Other Recipient Organizations**
**Conduct Educational Seminars**
**Meet With Companies **
**Promote Implementation Of The Principles And Guidelines**

## Points Of Contact

**Technology Transfer— http://ott.od.nih.gov**
**Grant Information—http://grants.nih.gov/grants**
**Contracts– http://ocm.od.nih.gov/contracts**
**	****http://www.eps.gov**

## Publications

**New Roadmap http://www.nihroadmap.nih.gov**
**Sharing Biomedical Research Tools **
**  ****http://ott.nih.gov /NewPages/RTguide_final.html**
**A Plan To Insure Taxpayers’ Interests Are Protected**
**http://www.nih.gov/news/070101wyden.htm**

## Contact Information

**Email:  roumelt@od.nih.gov**
**Website:  **_[http://ott.od.nih.gov](http://ott.od.nih.gov/)_
**General Telephone No. **
**301-496-7057**