201 Advancing medical innovation: The Innovation Fellows Program for training early-career scientists

Abstract

Objectives/Goals: Goals for this work include identifying areas for continuous curricular improvement as well as documenting best practices in multidimensional mentoring in innovation. Programmatic goals include pivoting early career scientists toward translational science solutions that are commercially viable. Methods/Study Population: Using Likert-scaled perception surveys of fellowship participants, preliminary pre- and post-fellowship responses are presented. Preliminary regression analyses are used to identify trends in participants’ ratings across innovation pathways and customer-focused design. Results/Anticipated Results: Focusing on the initial cohort of fellows’ perceptions of their competencies in the areas of technology propositions and industry networking, we observed a near twofold improvement reported competency, suggesting a key strength area for the Fellowship program. Discussion/Significance of Impact: First of its kind at Penn State College of Medicine, the Center for Medical Innovation’s partnership with Clinical and Translational Science Institutesignals enhanced commitment to developing early career fundamental scientists in the areas of intellectual property, customer-focused design, and commercialization. Significance of this work includes capturing best practices.