Faculty Advisory Committee

The CTTC Faculty Advisory Committee is comprised of leading researchers from Vanderbilt University who were brought together to help maximize the effectiveness of CTTC in providing top-quality commercialization services to inventors.  This faculty-led group is structured to have direct and regular impact on the operations of CTTC and serves as a sounding board for new initiatives and existing programs. 

To date, the FAC has provided a framework for returning inventions, created principles by which inventors should be treated, championed new programs for SBIR/STTR support, provided guidance on topics such as conflict of issue, and more. As issues and projects are vetted by the Faculty Advisory Committee, we will summarize the outcomes in Tech Connect – CTTC’s bi-weekly publication.

FAC Advisory

Ken Holroyd, M.D., MBA

Committee Chairman

David Cliffel, Ph.D.

Professor of Chemistry

P. Jeffrey Conn, Ph.D.

Lee E. Limbird Professor of Pharmacology, Director of the Vanderbilt Center for Neuroscience Drug Discovery

Beniot Dawant, Ph.D.

Cornelius Vanderbilt Chair in Engineering, Professor of Electrical Engineering, Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Professor of Radiology and Radiological Sciences

Susan Eagle, M.D.

Associate Professor of Clinical Anesthesiology

Michael Goldfarb, Ph.D.

H. Fort Flowers Chair in Mechanical Engineering, Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Professor of Electrical Engineering, Professor of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation

Will Grissom, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering

Scott Guelcher, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering

Rick Haselton, Ph.D.

Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Professor of Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences

Duke Herrell, M.D.

Associate Professor of Urologic Surgery, Director of Minimally-Invasive Urologic Surgery/Robotics Program, Urologic Surgeon/Oncologist

Billy Hudson, Ph.D.

Director Center for Matrix Biology, Elliott V. Newman Professor of Medicine, Professor of Pathology, Professor of Biochemistry

Shane Hutson, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Physics

Duco Jansen, Ph.D.

Associate Dean for Graduate Studies for the School of Engineering, Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Professor of Neurological Surgery

Peter Konrad, M.D., Ph.D.

Professor of Neurosurgery and Biomedical Engineering Vanderbilt Medical Center

Rob Labadie, M.D., Ph.D.

Professor of Otolaryngology, Professor of Bioengineering

Mark Magnuson, M.D.

Director of the Center for Stem Cell Biology

Brad Malin, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Biomedical Informatics & Computer Science, Vice Chair for Research in the Department of Biomedical Informatics, Director of the Health Information Privacy Laboratory

Reed Omary, M.D.

Carol D. and Henry P. Pendergrass Professor, Chair of the Department of Radiology and Radiological Sciences

Maria Overstreet, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Nursing

David Penson, M.D., M.P.H.

Director of the Center for Surgical Quality and Outcomes Research, Paul V. Hamilton, MD and Virginia E. Howd Professor of Urologic Oncology, Professor of Urologic Surgery

Peter Pintauro, Ph.D.

H. Eugene McBrayer Chair in Chemical Engineering, Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering

Jack Roberts, M.D.

William Stokes Professor of Experimental Therapeutics, Professor of Medicine, Professor of Pharmacology

Eric Skaar, Ph.D., M.P.H.

Ernest W. Goodpasture Associate Professor, Director of the Host-Pathogen Interactions Division

Sharon Weiss, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Physics

John Wikswo, Ph.D.

Director of the Vanderbilt Institute for Integrative Biosystems Research and Education, Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Professor of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics, Professor of Physics

Larry Zwiebel, Ph.D.

Professor of Biological Sciences, Cornelius Vanderbilt Chair in Biological Sciences, Professor of Pharmacology