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At a daylong event designed to promote academic-industry collaboration, Cornell’s Center for Advanced Technology (CAT) in Life Science Enterprise cast itself as both a funder of early-stage research and catalyst accelerating connections that move discoveries toward real-world impact.

Cornell’s CAT is one of 15 Centers for Advanced Technology that are funded by New York State through Empire State Development’s Division of Science, Technology and Innovation (NYSTAR).

“This is the first of a series of ‘CATalyzing’ events that we plan to do,” said Marcus Smolka, associate vice provost in the Cornell Research and Innovation. “We want to leverage the CAT to build a joint community that crosses the spectrum from New York State industry specialists, consultants and entrepreneurs to academic researchers, research developers and scientists in the lab who have interest in commercialization but don’t have much of an idea of how to do it.”