This seminar will provide an overview of the journey to translate academic research into commercialized healthcare technology. Prof. Banu Onaral will summarize their experiences with the Coulter Translational Research Program, a highly successful approach to deploy biomedical technologies. To illustrate this pathway, she will present a case study from their functional optical brain imaging laboratory, namely, a hand-held point-of-care hematoma detector based on the near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) and currently commercialized in 42 countries.