PhD Candidate, Andrew Olsen, and Post Doctoral Associate, Priya Katyal, participate in the NSF I-Corps Sites program hosted at NYU Tandon School of Engineering. They followed the lean launchpad methodology to understand potential markets for the engineered phosphotriesterase (PTE) developed in the lab. They were awarded modest funding to continue their customer discovery efforts following submission for of an NSF style proposal. You can read more about the program here. You can also view their lessons learned video on YouTube.
August 11th, 2017