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As a leading commercialization centre in Canada, WORLDiscoveries® is a significant contributor to the growing number of partnerships between academics and commerce, research and business, institutions and community.
WORLDiscoveries continues to work with an impressive team of private and public sector collaborators both locally and internationally who are committed to the timely transfer of innovative research products and services to the community for the benefit of all.
Quick Facts for 2015 Fiscal Year
57 patents issued
$3.8 million distributed to researchers
17 license agreements
$69 thousand in commercialization grants
$5.9 million in revenue
71 disclosures
109 active licenses
Stories
Statement
Clients, colleagues and supporters, 2014-2015 has been another banner year for WORLDiscoveries...
One-stop shop
While WORLDiscoveries is normally in the business of commercializing technologies – not creating them...
Going direct
In building Innoverify, WORLDiscoveries has created a new, efficient, repeatable path to market for creative works...
Industry partnership
Discovered, characterized and cloned during the early 1980s by current Lawson scientist and Western professor Eva Turley...
Leading the way
As the technology transfer and business development office for Western University, Lawson Health Research Institute and...
Hearing results
Over the years, countless children have fallen behind in speech, language and skill development because...
Smarter architecture
You’d like seven offices with windows, a corner boardroom and a kitchen in an old loft space in an up-and-coming...
Western innovation funds (WIF) awarded
Supported by the office of the Vice-President (Research), the Western Innovation Fund (WIF) awards...
Expanding the toolbox for Parkinson’s disease research
It often begins with a tremor. Then, a steady decline in motor skills. Parkinson’s disease is characterized by a...
An Eye On: Renix
Five years into existence, Renix is finding value in fluids. Spun off from research at Western with a $650 thousand...
Our Team
Executive Director
Lisa Cechetto
Executive Director
Asia Operations
Ling Ting
Director
Engineering and Natural Sciences (ENS) & Social Innovation
Patrick Therrien
Senior Business Development Manager
Jonathan Deeks
Business Development Manager
Life Sciences
Souzan Armstrong
Director, Business Development
Kirk Brown
Senior Business Development Manager
Tyler Lougheed
Business Development Manager
Patricia Pan
Business Development Manager
Support Services
Nadine Weedmark
Manager, Intellectual Property & Admin
Jan Payne
Patent and Market Analyst
Thurman Sawyer
Agreements Advisor
Lori Lariviere
Program Coordinator
Bev Bailey
Administrative Officer
Patrick Swan
Intern
Fabian Folias
Digital Marketing Manager
Board of Directors
John Capone, Chair
Western University
David Hill
Lawson Health Research Institute
Mike Irwin
3M
Peter Johnson
Lerners LLP
Dwayne Martins
Western University
Marilyn Sinclair
TechAlliance
Alex Weiner
HomeVerified Inc.