The author, Charlotte DeCroes Jacobs, MD, will read excerpts from her novel, Jonas Salk: A Life. The New York Times calls her biography “science writing at its best.” Book signings will take place after the reading. Read more at Stanford.edu...

The power of inno360, an open innovation collaborative platform and Watson partner, was recently displayed for IBM’s World of Watson 2016 conference attendees Oct. 24-27, 2016 in Las Vegas, Nevada.  Read more by clicking here....

A Hero for Our Times. Wall Street sure could use a man like Spencer Trask right now. The financier, who overcame personal tragedies to help develop some of the 20th century’s most dazzling innovations, was nearly as unobtrusive as he was visionary. Read more at Online.Barrons.com....

Spencer Trask & Co. an advanced technology development firm, today announced its Chairman Kevin Kimberlin, along with his wife Joni, will be presented with the “Lifetime in Service for Peace” award on Mon., June 5 by the David Lynch Foundation.  Read more by clicking here....

Angels are experienced; their entrepreneurial success, after all, is what made them angels. Free from the pressure of producing a return for limited partners, they tend to be more patient with the entrepreneur. Read more at Forbes.com....

The biotech industry began in 1978 when the University of California applied for a patent on the gene for the human growth hormone. Since that filing nearly 20% of the 20,000-plus genes in our DNA have been patented. Read more at WSJ.com....

Kevin Kimberlin and Joni Steele Kimberlin share a passion to make the world a better place. Here, in the second of our three-part series on powerful couples doing amazing things, we sit down with the pair that is influencing everything from female empowerment to the......

To honor Wennberg and further the pioneering work of The Dartmouth Institute, Dartmouth College will establish the John E. Wennberg Distinguished Professorship. Made possible by the generosity of 26 donors, the distinguished professorship will provide a stable source of funding to enable one of TDI’s......

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) is at the center of the budget crisis, and government is debating: is this truly affordable or will taxpayers be stuck with the bill again? Read more at TheHill.com....

“Kevin Kimberlin, founder and chairman of the advanced technology and medical innovation venture capital firm Spencer Trask & Co., joined Charlotte Jacobs, author of Jonas Salk: A Life, on a recent episode of Best Seller TV.”  Read more at KevinKimberlin.org....

In the decade from 1996 to 2005, breakthroughs in fiber optics and networking transformed society and laid the groundwork for the global internet. The same decade showed how technological breakthroughs could bring economic turmoil.  Read more by clicking here....

“His story is perhaps a story for anyone in how to tackle a problem in the obsessive way Jonas had, of never, ever quitting,” said Kevin Kimberlin, longtime friend of Salk.  Read more at Greenwichtime.com....

Dr. Jonas Salk faced down one of the most frightening viral epidemics in modern times. And he stopped it in its tracks. The polio vaccine — brilliantly created through years of painstaking and meticulous research during Salk’s tenure as director of the Virus Research Laboratory......

Founded in 1891, The Spencer Trask Lectures Series selects lecturers who will emphasize the importance of the humanities. Read more at Princeton.edu....

The world is home to 7.2 billion gadgets, and they’re multiplying five times faster than we are.  For the first time ever there are more gadgets in the world than there are people, including a growing number that only communicate with other machines, according to......

This Tuesday we heard a decision from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit on net neutrality. The Chicago Tribune has effusively called this “one of most important decisions in the history of Internet.” Read more by clicking here....