Nicholas Jacobson, an associate professor of biomedical data science and psychiatry, and Brian Pogue, the Robert A. Pritzker Professor of Biomedical Engineering, will be honored next month with Dartmouth Technology Innovation and Commercialization Awards.
The Office of Entrepreneurship and Technology Transfer sponsors the awards to recognize and honor outstanding inventive and entrepreneurial faculty and researchers at Dartmouth who have made a societal or economic impact, and who exemplify driving innovation to make a difference.
The ceremony will be held from 5 to 6:30 p.m. on Thursday, May 14, in the south atrium of the Class of 1982 Engineering and Computer Science Center.
Pogue will receive the Dartmouth Technology Innovation and Commercialization Award, which recognizes members of the Dartmouth community who, through their inventive and entrepreneurial talents, have made strong contributions to Dartmouth and society.
Pogue was selected to recognize his founding and leadership in establishing DoseOptics LLC, which has FDA-cleared product commercialization and use throughout the world, and leading a new venture, Hypoxia Surgical. Pogue also is being recognized for his many years of mentorship of students in innovation.
Both companies are commercializing impactful breakthroughs in imaging systems based on Pogue’s research. DoseOptics produces systems to visualize radiation therapy delivery in patients for precise and safer delivery, and Hypoxia Surgical is developing an imaging system that reveals diseased tissue with poor vasculature, characterized by low oxygen levels—a hallmark of many malignant tumors.
Jacobson will receive the Dartmouth Rising Star Innovator Award, which recognizes early career investigators who are pursuing outstanding research, innovation, and entrepreneurial thinking.
Jacobson was selected in recognition of his field-leading work with Assistant Professor of Psychiatry Michael Heinz in the use of generative AI to deliver evidence-based, clinically guided mental health treatment. Jacobson also is recognized for his entrepreneurial initiative in working with the Technology Transfer Office to license the technology, recruiting management, and securing sources of funding and sublicensing for Therabot Labs, LLC, a company he co-founded with Heinz.
Jacobson and Pogue were unanimously selected by a committee consisting of Provost Santiago Schnell, interim Geisel School of Medicine Dean Steven Leach, interim Thayer School of Engineering Dean Douglas Van Citters ’99, Thayer ’03, ’06, interim Dean of Arts and Sciences Nina Pavcnik, and Vice Provost for Entrepreneurship and Technology Transfer Eric Fossum.
“Professors Pogue and Jacobson were selected from an outstanding group of nominees, and we are very pleased to recognize and celebrate their significant contributions to the Dartmouth innovation and impact ecosystem,” Fossum says.
