{"id":14069,"date":"2020-07-09T11:35:33","date_gmt":"2020-07-09T15:35:33","guid":{"rendered":"health.uconn.edu\/regenerative-engineering-institute?p=14069"},"modified":"2020-07-09T11:35:33","modified_gmt":"2020-07-09T15:35:33","slug":"dr-laurencin-joins-the-national-academy-of-inventors-board-of-directors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/regenerative-engineering-institute\/2020\/07\/09\/dr-laurencin-joins-the-national-academy-of-inventors-board-of-directors\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Laurencin Joins the National Academy of Inventors Board of Directors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Laurencin was recently contacted by the President of the National Academy of Inventors requesting his commitment to serve on the 2020 &#8211; 2021 Board of Directors of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI). NAI is a non-profit which recognizes\u00a0and\u00a0encourages\u00a0inventors with patents issued from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office,\u00a0enhances\u00a0the visibility of academic technology and innovation, encourages the disclosure of intellectual property,\u00a0educates\u00a0and\u00a0mentors\u00a0innovative students, and translates the inventions of its members to benefit society.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Laurencin is deep rooted in the Academy as he is currently a NAI Fellow and President of the UConn NAI Chapter. The NAI Fellows Program highlights academic inventors who have demonstrated a spirit of innovation in creating or facilitating outstanding inventions that have made a tangible impact on quality of life, economic development and the welfare of society. Election to NAI Fellow is the highest professional distinction accorded solely to academic inventors.<\/p>\n<p>Under the direction of Dr. Laurencin, the mission of the UConn Chapter of the National Academy of Inventors is to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Promote scientific innovation and inventorship across all disciplines in the UConn community<\/li>\n<li>Develop educational and mentorship programs around invention and inventorship<\/li>\n<li>Increase awareness regarding innovation and encourage the disclosure of intellectual property<\/li>\n<li>Drive engagement by bringing academia and industry together and<\/li>\n<li>Create a platform to share the lessons learned by the Uconn inventors and other research communities in CT<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Laurencin was recently contacted by the President of the National Academy of Inventors requesting his commitment to serve on the 2020 &#8211; 2021 Board of Directors of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI). NAI is a non-profit which recognizes\u00a0and\u00a0encourages\u00a0inventors with patents issued from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office,\u00a0enhances\u00a0the visibility of academic technology and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1244,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-30 12:33:25","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/regenerative-engineering-institute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14069"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/regenerative-engineering-institute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/regenerative-engineering-institute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/regenerative-engineering-institute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1244"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/regenerative-engineering-institute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14069"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/regenerative-engineering-institute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14069\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14071,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/regenerative-engineering-institute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14069\/revisions\/14071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/regenerative-engineering-institute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/regenerative-engineering-institute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/regenerative-engineering-institute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}