Providence, R.I. -- Brown University announced on Monday that its Technology Ventures Office will help manage and market biomedical discoveries and inventions made by researchers in the Lifespan system.
The agreement with Lifespan, Rhode Island's largest health care system, follows the recent expansion of the technology office's relationship with Care New England, the other major health system in the state.
The technology office will work to turn ideas made by researchers at the hospital groups into commercial products.
"Providence's collectively growing biomedical enterprise has a lot to offer the world, and Brown has the expert staff and relationships to help connect our state's scientists with the opportunities their ingenuity creates," Brown Provost Dr. Mark Schlissel said in a statement.