When you start a conversation with Jennifer Villwock, M.D., FAAOA, about her research, you need to specify which project you are inquiring about. Dr. Villwock is inquisitive about how things work and has an array of interests, which matches her research perfectly.
The first project she is working on is with the Institute for Advancing Medical Innovations (IAMI) on commercializing the olfactory work she has been doing which uses patterns of responses on olfactory testing to help predict different disease states. She submitted a couple of grants on the small business side of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to support the work in both Alzheimer’s disease and dementias, as well as traumatic brain injury.
“This has been a new experience for me because you do not get a lot of entrepreneurial exposure working in science. It is not part of our formalized training,” Dr. Villwock said. “It has been great working with people (at IAMI) that the entrepreneurial side of things are in their wheelhouse and learning from them. Otherwise, we have limited exposure to this work…”
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