ITHS | Apply Now for TSEP: The ITHS Translational Science Entrepreneurship Program!

10 Mar Apply Now for TSEP: The ITHS Translational Science Entrepreneurship Program!

Posted on March 10, 2025 @ 1:39pm in Education & Training, News by Lisa Stromme

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The ITHS Technology Development Center is looking for researchers who are ready to prepare for the founding and leadership of a startup company to join the Translational Science Entrepreneurship Program (TSEP). This year-long hybrid program is designed to help researchers accelerate the translation of scientific and technological innovations into practical clinical use.

This program is open to all post-doctoral scientists, PhD graduate students, and inspired faculty members in health-related fields from Washington, Wyoming, Alaska, Montana, Idaho, and Oregon academic and clinical entities, as well as CTSAs across the nation. If you have a project you’re ready to translate into a product and company, the TSEP may be right for you!

About TSEP

To accelerate the translation of scientific and technological innovations into practical clinical use, ITHS Technology Development Center (TDC) developed the year-long Translational Science Entrepreneurship Program (TSEP) based on content from prior entrepreneurship workshops and year-long business courses taught by TDC staff. This leadership program will prepare a researcher for the founding and leadership of a startup company.

Who Should Apply?

This program is open to all health science, life science, bioscience, agricultural science, medical technology, digital health, and public health post-doctoral scientists, PhD graduate students, and inspired faculty members from Washington, Wyoming, Alaska, Montana, Idaho, and Oregon academic and clinical entities, as well as CTSAs across the nation. The program will require each participant to bring their own project that they sincerely intend to translate into a product and company. The program is not just for people working in a lab.

We welcome people developing therapeutics, devices, and diagnostics as well as digital health, mental health, public health, and agriculture innovation applications and tools.

This is not an introduction to entrepreneurship. This program is for people who have demonstrated sincere interest in entrepreneurship through prior engagement in NSF, NIH, or university entrepreneurship training and funding opportunities.
To avoid redundancy, participants will be encouraged to take advantage of any and all other entrepreneurship training resources they have access to. (Regional resource lists and links will be provided.) This program is offered to guide participants through in-depth coaching in the work of building a company.
Participants are expected to bring their own translational science, software, or engineering project that will serve as the basis of their company.

This program is not for project teams. The sessions and mentorship supports are designed to guide and develop the skills of the one person from each project who will be the technical founder CEO of the intended spinout company.