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Wake Forest University School of Medicine / Advocate Health
Editorially verified · Last reviewed August 30, 2026
Intelligence summary
Documented successes: INSTITUTION-WIDE FIGURES, not program metrics: Institute for Regenerative Medicine leading a $75 million government initiative; leading a $7.9 million multicenter Alzheimer's study; one of 45 NCI-designated Comprehensive Cancer Centers; anchor tenant of the Winston-Salem Innovation Quarter; Manages IP across Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Wake Forest health system and Advocate Health; operates a Medical Device Accelerator that carries clinician inventions from concept to prototype; Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine was first to engineer functional organs and implant laboratory-grown organs in patients and leads a $75 million government initiative; institution reported a $15 million life sciences commercialization commitment; The $75M initiative, $7.9M study and NCI center counts belong to the Institute for Regenerative Medicine, the School of Medicine and the cancer center respectively, not to the technology commercialization office
Mandate and remit
Wake Forest Innovations manages intellectual property for Wake Forest University School of Medicine, the Wake Forest health system and Advocate Health, and its stated mission is to turn research into products. It works directly with physician and scientist inventors through a Develop Your Ideas pathway that covers disclosure, IP protection strategy, market assessment, partnering and new company formation, and it maintains a public Technology for License portfolio. The group also runs a Medical Device Accelerator that helps clinician inventors move device concepts into prototypes and commercial partnerships. Its focus areas mirror institutional research strengths in aging and Alzheimer's disease, cancer, cardiovascular disease, diabetes and metabolism, neurology and neurosurgery, and regenerative medicine, and it is headquartered in Winston-Salem's Innovation Quarter.
These routes appear in the program's sourced public record.
Documented successes
INSTITUTION-WIDE FIGURES, not program metrics: Institute for Regenerative Medicine leading a $75 million government initiative; leading a $7.9 million multicenter Alzheimer's study; one of 45 NCI-designated Comprehensive Cancer Centers; anchor tenant of the Winston-Salem Innovation Quarter; Manages IP across Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Wake Forest health system and Advocate Health; operates a Medical Device Accelerator that carries clinician inventions from concept to prototype; Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine was first to engineer functional organs and implant laboratory-grown organs in patients and leads a $75 million government initiative; institution reported a $15 million life sciences commercialization commitment; The $75M initiative, $7.9M study and NCI center counts belong to the Institute for Regenerative Medicine, the School of Medicine and the cancer center respectively, not to the technology commercialization office
Organizational home: Wake Forest Innovations, Wake Forest University School of Medicine / Advocate Health
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