Yes.  Corporations are often interested in hiring University of Washington (UW) employees as consultants, and such relationships can be valuable to both parties. Companies can hire UW's experts to work on their projects, and UW researchers can pursue interests or applications that are not currently being studied at the University. Since many regulations govern the hiring of a consultant from the UW please review the Hiring a Consultant from the UW page on our website.

If you are looking for UW faculty or staff to consult on your project, several offices at the University can help you find a researcher working in your area of interest:

• Office of Research
• UW TechTransfer
• Washington Technology Center

Departmental web pages are another source of information about staff, faculty, and their expertise. The Community of Science can also provide some leads within its searchable COS Expertise database of researchers.  

Available UW technologies can be found by searching our Tech Index.

Yes.  Corporate businesses may purchase UW research materials.  This exchange requires a specific contract for each transfer. Such contracts are known as Material Transfer Agreements or "MTAs." The Agreements Group within UW TechTransfer manages all MTAs for the UW, and is the only unit of the University authorized to do so.

Please contact the Agreements Group for assistance with the transfer of materials.

The exchange of research materials is an important component of the research enterprise. University of Washington (UW) researchers are both providers and recipients of research materials such as cell lines, cultures, bacteria, nucleotides, proteins, transgenic animals, pharmaceuticals, and chemicals. Typically, material transfers occur between the UW and research institutions or corporate researchers.

This vital exchange requires a specific contract for each transfer. Such contracts are known as Material Transfer Agreements or "MTAs."

Please contact the Agreements Group for assistance with the transfer of materials.

The exchange of research materials is an important component of the research enterprise. University of Washington (UW) researchers are both providers and recipients of research materials such as cell lines, cultures, bacteria, nucleotides, proteins, transgenic animals, pharmaceuticals, and chemicals. Typically, material transfers occur between the UW and research institutions or corporate researchers.

This vital exchange requires a specific contract for each transfer. Such contracts are known as Material Transfer Agreements or "MTAs."

Please contact the Agreements Group for assistance with the transfer of materials.

UW OpenDOOR (Directory of Open Resources), is a portal to the source code, freeware, web tools and data sets offered for public use by the University of Washington scholarly community. Managed by UW TechTransfer, OpenDOOR makes it easy for visitors to see and explore all the open innovations developed at the University of Washington. Some innovations may have conditions attached by the developers to their availability, and those conditions, as we've been able to discern, are noted on each innovation's entry.

UW TechTransfer also manages and makes available other innovations, some with source available, some free and some with a non-discriminatory fee. We offer both "ready-to-sign" Express Licenses for some of our innovations and a host of other technologies available for license that are neither listed in UW OpenDOOR nor in the Express Licensing Directory. For more information contact ventures@u.washington.edu.