Translational Postdoctoral Fellows Xiaoting Jia and Michael Georgas are learning how to translate their research in RLE into private enterprises. Jia is working on fiber-based neural interface devices; Georgas is exploring integrated photonics. Samara Vise

Yoel Fink PhD ’00 wants to save the next generation of researchers time and frustration in their efforts to move their ideas and inventions from lab to market. A professor of materials science and director of MIT’s Research Laboratory of Electronics (RLE), Fink has developed a program to speed up the process of launching a business—the pitfalls of which he knows all too well. « more »

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