AUTM on the Air

After working in America for 20 years, Dublin born Declan Weldon returned to his alma mater, Trinity College, as the Deputy Director for Research and Innovation and the head of the Office of Corporate Partnership and Knowledge. Trinity has one of the largest hubs of R&D accessible infrastructure in Ireland, is responsible for 600 industry engagements, and for the past 6 years, Trinity College...

Many PhD recipients spend their careers in academia, but today’s guest, Dr. Isabel Ramos, decided that she wanted to apply her knowledge in the real world. Isabel’s current role is innovation manager at Siemens Healthineers, where she and her team work alongside universities and other partners to create technologies related to digital health.   In today’s episode, Isabel explains what she loves ab...

Today’s guest is Dr. Anji Miller ; a senior business manager in the technology transfer division at LifeArc , a self-funded medical research charity which has a 25 year legacy of collaborating with scientists in order to transform medical innovations into benefits for patients. Her role focuses on the evaluation and translation of academic derived science.  Anji’s had had a lifelong love for scien...

Hello and welcome to another episode of Tech Transfer IP . Today I am pleased to speak with Bill Payne, the Executive Director of Science and Technology at the Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation at the University of Chicago . Bill leads the technology commercialization, Polsky Science Ventures , and industry relations team working to bring groundbreaking faculty research to the mark...

Welcome to another episode of Tech Transfer IP . Today I am pleased to speak with Elaine Spector. Elaine is a patent attorney with Harrity & Harrity with over twenty year's experience in intellectual property law. Elaine's current practice consists primarily of prosecuting patent applications with a focus on electromechanical technologies.  Before joining Harrity & Harrity, Elaine...

Welcome to another episode of Tech Transfer IP . Today I am pleased to speak with Claiborne “Clay” Christian. Clay is a Business Development Officer for Tulane University. He focuses on establishing and facilitating collaborations involving research at Tulane and industry, venture capital, and other external partners, ensuring that all parties have an optimal enterprise experience. Clay received a...

Welcome to another episode of Tech Transfer IP . Today I am pleased to speak with Kirsten Leute, a Partner at Osage University Partners (OUP). At OUP, Kirsten is responsible for relationships with over 100 academic institutions that are partnered with the fund, engaging potential new partner institutions, and enhancing and creating value-add programs for the partnered academic institutions.  Kirst...

Hello and welcome to a very special episode of Tech Transfer IP . Today I am pleased to speak with George Chellapa and Meagan Pitcher, the Co-chairs of AUTM’s Better World Project . However, before we talk about the details of the Better World Project, let me tell you a little about my guests George and Meagan. George is an Invention Manager at Innovation and New Ventures at Northwestern Universit...

On this episode of Tech Transfer IP, Lisa is speaking with Meagan Pitcher, a Licensing Associate at Baylor College of Medicine (BCM) Ventures. In her role, Meagan handles technology evaluation and triage, patent prosecution management, commercialization plan development, negotiating of complex technology licenses, post-deal compliance, and much more. Before BCM, Meagan was with the University of T...

Welcome to a special episode of Technology Transfer IP. This episode will talk about equality, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) in Tech Transfer. To help guide our discussion, we have assembled an esteemed panel of guests who have graciously agreed to share their knowledge and insights on this topic. Today's panel includes; Tom Hockaday, Anji Miller , Natalie Cozier , Almesha Campbell , and Mega...

On this episode of Tech Transfer IP, Lisa has the pleasure of speaking with Karl Mundorff. Karl is the Executive Director of Innovation and Entrepreneurship at Oregon State University (OSU) and the Co-Director of the OSU Advantage Accelerator . Karl joined OSU in September 2015 as the Senior Program Manager. Before his time at OSU, Karl was the Director of Research Programs for Oregon BEST ; A Sta...

Today I have the pleasure of speaking with Megan Aanstoos (she/her/hers), Licensing and New Ventures Manager for Kentucky Commercialization Ventures (KCV). In this role, Megan is responsible for outreach and education on matters related to commercialization, along with assessing, managing, and licensing intellectual property developed at KCV partner institutions. Megan's work allows her to pur...

On this episode of Tech Transfer IP, Lisa is speaking with Nicole N. Morris, a faculty member at Emory University School of Law . Nicole is a professor in practice and Director of the TI:GER (Technological Innovation: Generating Economic Results), an innovative partnership between Emory and Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) that brings together graduate students in law, business, scie...

Jeanine Burmania, the Senior Director of Intellectual Property and Licensing at the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF), is Lisa's guest today on Tech Transfer IP. Jeanine has been with WARF for over 17 years and graduated from the University of Wisconsin with a Bachelor's Degree in Biomedical Engineering and a Master's Degree in Pharmaceutical Science and Biomedical Engineerin...

On this episode of Technology Transfer IP , Lisa has the pleasure of speaking with Dr. Clovia Hamilton, a tenure track Assistant Professor in the Technology and Society Department of SUNY Korea (which is affiliated with Stonybrook University) in Songdo South Korea (about an hour outside of Seoul). Dr. Hamilton teaches ethics, smart education, smart cities (i.e., technology in the city, including t...

On this episode of Technology Transfer IP , Lisa has the pleasure of speaking with Jim O'Connell, the Assistant Vice President for Commercialization at UF Innovate at the University of Florida. In addition to UF Innovate , Jim also leads the Sid Martin Biotech and The Hub and is the Director of Tech Licensing. Jim works with internal and external constituents to provide strategic leadership an...

Today on Tech Transfer IP, Lisa has the pleasure of speaking with Allyson Best. Allyson is the Director of Technology Commercialization at the University of Mississippi . Allyson received her Bachelor of Science in marketing from Clemson University and MBA in Pharmaceutical Marketing and Development from The University of Mississippi . Allyson's journey to Tech Transfer started as a project co...

Today on Tech Transfer IP, Lisa has the pleasure of speaking with George Chellapa. George is an Invention Manager at Innovation and New Ventures at Northwestern University (INVO). George works with faculty to protect their intellectual property and bring technologies to market. He is also involved in negotiating agreements between Northwestern and commercial partners. George was with the and Washi...

Today on Tech Transfer IP, Lisa has the pleasure of speaking with David Gulley. David is the founding director of the Puerto Rico Science, Technology and Research Trust’s Technology Transfer Office (TTO), launched in 2016 as a regional effort to improve the island’s innovation ecosystem. David serves on committees of the Association of University Technology Managers (AUTM), the Alliance for Techno...

On this episode of Tech Transfer IP, Lisa has the pleasure of speaking with Kris Romig. Kris is the Technology Transfer Officer for the Exploration Technology Office at NASA’s Johnson Space Center. Kris and his team are responsible for curating the intellectual property developed at Johnson Space Center from disclosing new innovations through the patent process and eventual licensing of those inve...

On this episode of Tech Transfer IP, Lisa has the pleasure of speaking with Rakhi Gibbons, the Director of Licensing for Tech Launch Arizona (TLA) at the University of Arizona. Rakhi has over fifteen years of experience in the life sciences industry, from research to startup experience and university technology transfer. In her role as director, Rakhi oversees all licensing operations at TLA. Thro...

Lisa is speaking with Ben Dibling, Deputy Managing Director of Penn Center for Innovation at the University of Pennsylvania , on this Tech Transfer IP episode. Ben leads the licensing, corporate contracting, and corporate outreach groups at the Penn Center for Innovations . Ben's team is responsible for working with Penn faculty, staff, and students to evaluate, protect, and commercialize Penn...

On this episode of Tech Transfer, IP Lisa has the pleasure of speaking with Kashif Haque, a Patent Technology Associate in the office of Technology Transfer at the University of Toledo . In this role, Kashif is responsible for managing all aspects of the invention disclosure process, interacting with faculty, staff, and students to better understand their research, focusing on identifying and prot...

Today Lisa has the pleasure of speaking with Nichole Mercier, the Assistant Vice-Chancellor and Managing Director for Technology Transfer at Washington University in St. Louis . In her role at WashU, Nichole is responsible for all office operations and strategy, including licensing, business development, finance, and administrative operations. Prior to her time at WashU, Nichole was a Senior Contr...

Today, Lisa's guest is Steve Auerbach, the interim Director of the Office of Innovation and Commercialization (OIC), the Office of Tech Transfer, the Office of Indigenous Innovation (OII), and UH Ventures in the University of Hawaii System. Steve joined the OIC in October 2019 and was tasked with managing the research and innovation developed across all ten campuses within the University of Ha...