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Piedmont Triad Research Park is rebranded as Wake Forest Innovation Quarter

Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center announced new business developments related to its commercialization enterprise, Wake Forest Innovations, as well as a new brand for Piedmont Triad Research Park.

After consultation with key stakeholders in and beyond the community and an analysis of park names worldwide, Piedmont Triad Research Park has been renamed “Wake Forest Innovation Quarter” (www.WakeForestInnovationQuarter.com).

Also, in a move designed to jump-start operations at the new commercialization enterprise, Wake Forest Innovations launched its public website, www.WakeForestInnovations.com, as the primary way for industry and other business partners to engage with Wake Forest Innovations and its internal business units. The new Wake Forest Innovations website includes two key portals to encourage engagement and collaboration designed to commercialize Wake Forest’s many new licensable technologies and to market Wake Forest’s unique and broad-based scientific services.

Read more about the changes on the Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center website »

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Tomlinson named head of PTRP

Eric TomlinsonEric Tomlinson, DSc, PhD, a scientific and business leader whose career incorporates academia, product innovation and economic development, has been named President of Piedmont Triad Research Park (PTRP) and Chief Innovation Officer of Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center. He will join the Medical Center July 2, 2012.

“Eric will focus on the commercialization of research and innovation, along with the business development of PTRP, which is the area’s top regional economic project priority and one of the largest urban life science research parks in the country,” said John D. McConnell, M.D., chief executive officer of Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center. “His unique background in academic science, large pharmaceutical and small startup companies, product design and commercialization, and government policy made him the ideal candidate to build on our successes.”

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Research Park updates to be presented

Piedmont Triad Research ParkWhat’s new in the Piedmont Triad Research Park and downtown Winston-Salem will be presented by a panel of speakers June 9 in an event that is part of the 2011 Technology and Innovation Series.

Since the research park’s earliest days, Wake Forest University and Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center have played lead roles in its development and continuing growth. Tenants include the Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine, the Wake Forest University Office of Technology Asset Management, the Wake Forest University School of Medicine Lipid Sciences Research program and other Wake Forest-related research facilities.

Free and open to the public, the presentation will be held from 8:30 a.m. to 9:45 a.m. June 9 at the Milton Rhodes Center for the Arts at 251 N. Spruce St. The Technology Council of the Winston-Salem Chamber of Commerce organizes the series.

The program is titled “The Research Park and Downtown Connection: Developing a Work/Live/Play Community in the Heart of Winston-Salem.” Speakers will include Doug Edgeton, president of the research park; Carol Strohecker, director of the Center for Design Innovation; and Jason Thiel, president of the Downtown Winston-Salem Partnership.

Part of the discussion will focus on what’s being built and planned for the research park’s north and south districts. Just last year, the research park announced it had reached an agreement with Wexford Science and Technology, a Baltimore developer, to rehabilitate two former manufacturing buildings in the downtown into space for labs, offices and other uses. The new facility will be called Wake Forest BioTech Place.

To register to attend the free event, go online at http://www.winstonsalem.com/techevents.aspx.

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