Mass Tech Portal

About the
Massachusetts Technology Portal

Purpose

The Massachusetts Technology Portal is a single website where one can search easily and efficiently for over 3,500 technologies (as of November 2011) available from 28 research institutions in Massachusetts:

Baystate Health, Inc.
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Boston Biomedical Research Institute
Boston College
Boston University
Brandeis University
Brigham and Women's Hospital
Caritas St. Elizabeth's Medical Center
Children's Hospital Boston
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Harvard University
Joslin Diabetes Center
Mass Eye and Ear Infirmary
Massachusetts General Hospital
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
McLean Hospital
Northeastern University
Schepens Eye Research Institute
The Broad Institute
The Immune Disease Institute
Tufts Medical Center
Tufts University
UMass Dartmouth
UMass Medical School
University of Massachusetts at Amherst
University of Massachusetts Lowell
Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research
Worcester Polytechnic Institute

The portal was developed jointly with MATTO to provide entrepreneurs and investors with a convenient tool for finding intellectual property generated across a broad spectrum of Massachusetts universities and research hospitals. While many Technology Transfer Offices have search engines for their IP on their institution's website, providing a single portal to the patents produced by our leading institutions enables users to identify the researchers, laboratories and institutions that have the inventions of interest quickly.

Using the Portal

Using the MassTechPortal

We have tried to design the portal to make it easy for you to search for technologies that are available for license from a number of institutions in Massachusetts . Please send us feedback if you have recommendations as to how we can make the portal a more useful tool for you.
You may search by one criteria or by several - it is your choice. You may want to start with a more general search and if you get too many responses then refine your search.
To do another search click on reset before you type in your new search criteria.
You may search for technologies in a specific Technology Type - the MassTechPortal uses a list of 44 technology types - a full list of the technology types may be found at the bottom of this page with descriptions of the kinds of technologies that are included.
Each technology is owned and available for license from the posting institution. Clicking the title of the invention on the results page will bring you to a page containing a detailed description of the technology and contact information for the institution managing the technology. Please use the case number listed when corresponding with the institution.
Printing - for best results set paper to print in landscape when printing.

Technology Types

The following are the TechTypes that the Portal uses.

Portal Technology Types	Classification	Areas Included
Agriculture	General	Agriculture, animal health, forestry, agricultural chemicals and related technologies
Environment	General	Recycling, hazardous and waste management, environmental management system, water treatment, pollution control and prevention, toxins, environmental remediation
Foods and Plant Sciences	General	Foods processes, fermentation, nutrition, sterilization, storage, animal/vegetable products
Health Care Surveys	General
Textiles	General
Transportation	General
Bioinformatics	Medical	Sequence analysis, modeling or drug discovery related software
Biomaterials	Medical	A bio-based material is engineering material made from substances derived from living tissues. Examples include polylactic acid, bioplastics, cornstarch etc.
Diagnostics/Biomarkers	Medical	Diagnostics, prognostics, biomarkers, patient monitoring
Drug Delivery	Medical	Drug/RNA/siRNA/Gene/Peptide delivery systems
Drug Discovery Tools	Medical	Screening Assays, Drug Targets, Methods of ID new drugs or therapeutic compounds/ DNA/proteins
Genomics/Proteomics	Medical	Anything Gene like (also see proteomics) - is this necessary? It is something most institutions have a category for so we may need to keep it. Combined this with proteomics because there will be so few
Medical Devices	Medical	Medical and surgical devices, prosthetics, med devices used for therapeutics
Medical Imaging	Medical	Medical imaging, tracking, sensing, signal processing
Microarrays	Medical	DNA, RNA, Protein, Antibody array related technologies.
Research Reagents	Medical	cell lines, monoclonal antibodies, reagents, animal models, growth factors, clones
Research Tools	Medical	cloning tools (such as PCR), methods, laboratory equipment and machines, software that helps in research
Therapeutics - Drugs	Medical	Potential drugs, small molecule, peptide, antibody, nucleic acid -based therapeutics - with novel composition of matter claims
Therapeutics - Methods	Medical	New use of known drugs, DNA, or protein based therapeutics, and non-drug therapeutic methods or treatments
Tissue Engineering	Medical
Vaccines	Medical	Vaccines and Vaccine generating/developent methods, tools
Chemical Engineering	Physical	Chemical engineering technologies
Chemistry	Physical	Catalytic, coatings, organic, physical, polymers, environmental, quantum chemistry, chemical compounds
Civil Engineering	Physical	Engineering that deals with the planning, construction, and maintenance of fixed structures or public works
Electrical Engineering	Physical
Energy	Physical	Alternative or renewable energy-related technoplogies, Hydrogen separation, Solar Energy, Photovoltaic cells, Hydroelectricity
Instrumentation	Physical	Measurement and control technologies.
Internet and Communications	Physical	Internet software or related services. Coding, networks, optical, components, wireless, telephony, VoIP
Manufacturing	Physical	Manufacturing methods, industrial processes or instrumentation, machinery, assembly, process control
Materials	Physical	Materials, coatings, ceramics, composites and electronics
Materials Diagnostics	Physical	Characterizing materials, i.e. thin films
Mechanical Engineering	Physical
Microelectronics/MEMS	Physical	All microelectronics, or methods of making microelectronics
Nanotechnology/NEMS	Physical	Anything nano - this includes NEMS, methods of making nano-structures, materials
Networking/Communications	Physical	Network monitoring, telecommunications, etc?
Photonics/Optical Systems	Physical	Anything light or optics related
Physics	Physical	Acoustics, Fluid Dynamics, Thermodynamics, Optical Physics, Particle Physics, Quantum Mechanics, Electromagnetism, Mathematical physics
Plastics and Polymers Engineering	Physical	Processing, design, development, and manufacture of plastics and polymeric based products
Robotics/Automation	Physical	Robots, vision, hearing, sensing, artificial intelligence, etc?
Semiconductors	Physical
Sensing/Imaging	Physical	Sensor networks, detections systems, sensing during manufacture, RFID
Software/Algorithms	Physical	All programs and software
Chemical Methods/Libraries	Physical and Medical	Methods of synthesizing certain chemicals or compounds, combinatorial chem libraries
Fluidics/Microfluidics	Physical and Medical	Lab on a chip, microfluidics, and associated hoses and chutes

Portal Development

The Portal is a joint project of MATTO and the MTTC. The development and implementation of the portal has been paid for by the MTTC, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston Biomedical Research Institute, Boston University, Brandeis University, Caritas St. Elizabeth's Medical Center, Boston Children's Hospital, Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard University, Joslin Diabetes Center, Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, Massachusetts General Hospital, McLean Hospital, Northeastern University, The Schepens Eye Research Institute, and Tufts University.

The portal site was developed by Third Sky and via an agreement with iBridge.

MATTO is the Massachusetts Association of Technology Transfer Offices and represents all of the Commonwealth's TTO's.