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Innovation Ventures / Innovation and Technology Transfer Office

Children's National Hospital / Children's National Research Institute

Editorially verified · Last reviewed August 30, 2026

Intelligence summary

Program at a Glance

Program mandate
Children's National's Innovation Ventures office manages all aspects of intellectual property development for Children's National Hospital and the Children's National Research Institute. It creates strategic business partnerships with external stakeholders and provides educational programming to foster academic entrepreneurship among pediatric clinicians and scientists.
Organizational model
Children's · Nonprofit
Location
Washington, District of Columbia
Program types
Technology transferInnovation centerEntrepreneurship
Commercialization pathways
LicenseStrategic partnership
Focus areas
ClinicalPediatricDigitalWorkforce
Public scale or maturity signals

Documented successes: Licensing agreement with MGeneRx Inc. for proprietary biometric analysis technology; collaboration agreement with Compremium AG to advance pediatric medical technologies; maintains an active licensing portal of available pediatric technologies

Official engagement route
Program website ↗Health system website ↗
Last reviewed
August 30, 2026

Mandate and remit

What This Program Does

Children's National's Innovation Ventures office manages all aspects of intellectual property development for Children's National Hospital and the Children's National Research Institute. It creates strategic business partnerships with external stakeholders and provides educational programming to foster academic entrepreneurship among pediatric clinicians and scientists. The office handles protection, marketing, licensing and commercialization of patents, copyrights, research tools, software and know-how. It maintains a public portal of available pediatric technologies for licensing.

Areas of Focus

ClinicalPediatricDigitalWorkforce

Commercialization Pathways

These routes appear in the program's sourced public record.

Publicly Reported Outcomes

  • Documented successes

    Licensing agreement with MGeneRx Inc. for proprietary biometric analysis technology; collaboration agreement with Compremium AG to advance pediatric medical technologies; maintains an active licensing portal of available pediatric technologies

Leadership and Structure

Organizational home: Innovation Ventures / Innovation and Technology Transfer Office, Children's National Hospital / Children's National Research Institute

  • Haiyin Chang, PhD, MBASenior Licensing Associate and Patent Agent

Contact the Program

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Sources and Updates

Reviewed August 30, 2026. External source links open in a new tab.

  1. Innovation Ventures / Innovation and Technology Transfer Office official source research.childrensnational.org. Accessed August 30, 2026.
  2. Innovation Ventures / Innovation and Technology Transfer Office source 2 childrensnational.org. Accessed August 30, 2026.
  3. Innovation Ventures / Innovation and Technology Transfer Office source 3 childrensnational.org. Accessed August 30, 2026.

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