Jul 13, 2023
Dr. Aaron Morton is interviewed by the Huffines Institute
In this week’s episode we do “bench to bedside” with Dr. Aaron Morton.
He is an Assistant Professor in Kinesiology and Sport Management at Texas A&M University and he studies neuromuscular diseases and biomaterials. He is currently serving as director of soft tissue regeneration in the applied biomaterials laboratory at Texas A&M.
Dr. Morton discusses what third generation biomaterials are and how he has been able to get a patent for his invention. Listen to Dr. Morton discuss his journey on getting a patent and a few pieces of advice he wishes to share with anyone interested in the process themselves! Thank you for tuning into this week’s episode of We Do the Heavy Lifting! If you have any comments or topics you would like to hear from us, email us at Huffines@tamu.edu.
0:00 Intro
0:40 Third Generation Biomaterials
1:46 How do we use them?
4:25 Invention Disclosure & Secret Sauce
6:56 Bench-to-Bedside Education
10:30 What was your motivation?
11:53 Advice
15:23 Progress without publishing
16:50 Cost
22:25 Take-away message
23:24 Outro