About: Partners

Creativity Roundtable
This is a working faculty group ranging across disciplines and hailing from all Wake Forest campuses. This dynamic group contributes to an interconnected landscape of creative engagement, research and practice on the WFU campus that is helping to shape a national symposium, “Creativity: Worlds in the Making”, and to support the Sustainable Program for Creativity and Innovation initiative.
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Wake Forest Partners

Secrest Artists Series
Department of Theatre and Dance
Department of Art
Department of Biology
Department of Chemistry
Department of Physics
Department of Music
Interdisciplinary Honors Program
Program for Health, Bioethics and Society
Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center
Film Studies Program

Thanks to WFU funders

Fund for Ethics, Leadership and Civic Responsibility
Provost's Fund for Academic Excellence
Special Thanks to the Kauffman Foundation

Triad Region Partners

Piedmont Triad Research Park (PTRP)
• Provides core connectivity to accelerate technology commercialization such as with the Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine led by Dr. Anthony Atala and spinout companies such as Tengion and its NeoBladder™. Wake Forest ranked by Miliken Institute among the top 100 in the world in ability to bring biotech research to the marketplace.
• Leverages Wake Forest University Health Sciences’ Centers of Excellence including public health sciences, clinical trials, nanotechnology, biomolecular imaging, human genomics, neurology, and lipid sciences.
• Is currently home to over 40 Companies with a global population exceeding 800 including an medical device accelerator known as SpringMed.   Anchor biopharmaceutical tenant, Targacept consistently ranks as top VC invested company in the state including collaborations with GSK and Astra Zeneca.
• Recently opened the Wet Lab LaunchPad ™ in collaboration with the NC Biotechnology Center and community leaders to  provide affordable laboratory space for emerging life sciences companies.
• Is part of the newly formed NC Research Parks Network with PTRP Director, Bill Dean as chairman.

The Center for Design Innovation
The Center for Design Innovation is a University of North Carolina interinstitutional collaboration between the North Carolina School of the Arts and Winston-Salem State University, partnering with Forsyth Technical Community College. CDI fosters cross-disciplinary research and entrepreneurial activity related to design and innovation, provides educational programming focused on design and innovation, and acts as a design-based business cluster accelerator, to make the Piedmont Triad Region of North Carolina a recognized center of design across the country.
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Dr. Carol Strohecker
Director, Center for Design Innovation
Professor, Winston-Salem State University
Chief Research Officer, UNC School of the Arts
Instructor, UNC School of the Arts
01-336-354-7358
cs@CenterforDesignInnovation.org

Piedmont Triad Partnership Creative Cluster
Margaret Collins
Director, Creative Enterprises/Arts
(336) 668-9657, mcollins@piedmonttriadnc.com

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