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The Epolleo Technology Transfer Office (TTO) is the central hub for managing the ethical use, licensing, and innovation pathways of microbial samples curated through the platform. Grounded in Epolleo’s Ethical Sharing Policy, the TTO oversees all Material Transfer Agreements (MTAs), ensuring that samples are used responsibly, transparently, and in alignment with scientific, educational, and cultural values. The office reviews screening protocols, verifies collaboration approvals, and conducts security vetting to protect sensitive research. It manages intellectual property protections—tracking innovations, facilitating royalty-based licensing agreements, and safeguarding future applications. The TTO also plays a vital role in ensuring fair benefit-sharing with educational institutions and Indigenous communities, honoring cultural relevance while enabling global research access. By monitoring sample usage, metadata integrity, and downstream developments, the TTO ensures that microbial discoveries contribute to a collaborative, secure, and ethical innovation ecosystem.
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Welcome to the Epolleo Technology Transfer Office
Technical Transfer Office Mission
Innovation Search and Screening Protocol Approval
Material Transfer Agreements (MTAs)
The Technology Transfer Office (TTO) is the central gateway for transforming microbial discovery into ethical, collaborative innovation. Guided by Epolleo’s Ethical Sharing Policy, our mission is to ensure that every microbial sample, search, and innovation respects the source, protects the data, and creates value for all participants—from students to scientists to Indigenous partners. Whether you're a researcher with a promising idea, an educator leading a classroom campaign, or a startup looking to develop novel applications, the TTO is here to support your journey with integrity, transparency, and shared purpose.
Material Transfer Agreements (MTAs)
Innovation Search and Screening Protocol Approval
Material Transfer Agreements (MTAs)
The TTO manages all Material Transfer Agreements, ensuring that microbial samples are accessed and used responsibly. Every MTA submission undergoes a review process to verify the researcher's intent, safeguard security, and align with Epolleo's ethical standards. We document each sample’s chain of custody, establish permitted uses, and license metadata access as needed. MTAs serve not just as legal agreements, but as ethical frameworks that protect contributors and guarantee accountability in downstream applications. Our team also coordinates sample return or disposition protocols at the conclusion of each approved project.
Innovation Search and Screening Protocol Approval
Innovation Search and Screening Protocol Approval
Innovation Search and Screening Protocol Approval
Before any search or screening activity begins, innovators must submit a protocol for TTO review. We evaluate proposed searches for scientific merit, alignment with platform goals, and biosafety considerations. If a query may involve sensitive genes, pathogens, or Indigenous-tagged samples, additional safeguards are enforced. Our approval process includes security screening of personnel, use-case assessment, and alignment with SBIR/STTR pathways where applicable. This ensures that each screening campaign is safe, respectful, and contributes to Epolleo’s mission of ethical microbial use.
IP Protection and Licensing
Innovation and Commercialization Support
Innovation Search and Screening Protocol Approval
The TTO helps researchers, students, and external innovators protect intellectual property derived from Epolleo samples. We guide users through provisional patent applications, licensing frameworks, and naming conventions for novel strains.
We also help structure royalty-sharing agreements where appropriate.
The goal is to ensure that those who innovate are fairly recognized, while maintaining access policies that reflect Epolleo’s nonprofit, collaborative ethos. Our licensing tools prioritize transparency, downstream accountability, and reinvestment into the Epolleo ecosystem.
Innovation and Commercialization Support
Innovation and Commercialization Support
Innovation and Commercialization Support
For users developing applications from microbial samples, the TTO offers startup-friendly pathways to commercialization. This includes guidance on incubator partnerships, innovation grants, and ethical marketing of bio-based products. Innovators can access curated microbial profiles with legal and data integrity already in place, reducing development risk.
Our support prioritizes research equity, ensuring that products developed from shared samples reflect fair benefit-sharing.
We also offer collaborative development opportunities, including faculty-industry matchmaking and early-stage pilot funding connections.
Benefit-Sharing and Equity
Innovation and Commercialization Support
Innovation and Commercialization Support
Ensuring equity is core to our work. The TTO safeguards benefit-sharing mechanisms that return value to students, classrooms, and Indigenous communities involved in the discovery process.
Every MTA and innovation agreement includes benefit language tailored to the community or contributors involved.
This may include royalties, authorship rights, access to technology, or educational reinvestment.
We work closely with Epolleo’s Ethics and Oversight Committee to ensure benefits are meaningful, proportional, and community-driven.
Security and Data Integrity Oversight
Security and Data Integrity Oversight
Security and Data Integrity Oversight
The TTO enforces rigorous safety and data handling standards for all users accessing Epolleo’s biological and metadata resources. Our team monitors user access levels, encryption compliance, and data use transparency.
For sensitive samples—including those involving antibiotic resistance genes or pathogenic organisms—we require enhanced screening and SBIR-backed credentials.
Data integrity protocols include audit trails, archival retention standards, and locked field requirements to prevent data corruption or misuse.
Ethical Use Monitoring
Security and Data Integrity Oversight
Security and Data Integrity Oversight
Our commitment doesn’t end once a sample is transferred.
The TTO continuously monitors how Epolleo samples are used in research, licensing, and publication. Innovators must submit annual update reports on their progress, publications, and commercialization status.
We review all outputs for alignment with the terms of the original MTA and flag any discrepancies.
This monitoring reinforces ethical continuity and ensures that all uses of microbial data respect the communities and ecosystems they came from.
Collaborative Partnership Pathways
Security and Data Integrity Oversight
Collaborative Partnership Pathways
The TTO builds and sustains collaborative relationships across sectors.
Whether you’re from a university, nonprofit, private enterprise, or tribal government, we help design responsible partnerships rooted in transparency, trust, and mutual benefit.
Our team facilitates co-licensing, joint research agreements, and partnership onboarding. Every collaboration is built with consent, clarity, and commitment to Epolleo’s open-science and bioethical framework.
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About Epolleo BioDiversity Platform
We welcome your ideas, your questions, and your commitment to responsible science.
📩 Connect with us: TechnicalTransfer@epolleo.org
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