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Karthik Gopalakrishnan, the Director of Licensing and New Ventures at the Bill L. Harbert Institute for Innovation and Entrepreneurship at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB), is Lisa's guest on this episode of Tech Transfer IP . Karthik has over 15 years of experience in asset and technology evaluation across broad scientific disciplines, marketing and negotiating agreements and con...

Today Lisa is speaking with her guest, Jessica Trostel. Jessica is a Licensing and Intellectual Property Associate with Colorado State University (CSU) Ventures . Before working with CSU Ventures, Jessica was a senior clinical trial coordinator for an investigational drug study for renal transplants, an extern in the Technology Transfer Office, and research assistant at the University of Colorado...

On this episode of Tech Transfer IP, Lisa has the pleasure of speaking with Almesha L. Campbell. Almesha is the Assistant Vice President for Research and Economic Development/Director for Technology Transfer and Commercialization at Jackson State University (JSU). Almesha provides support for the overall direction of the Division of Research and Economic Development and manages the intellectual pr...

Lisa's guests on this episode of Tech Transfer IP are Richard Cox and Steven Asiala from the Innovation, De-Risking and Enterprise Acceleration (IDEA) Center at the University of Notre Dame. Dick is the Director of Licensing & Business Development at the IDEA Center . His primary responsibilities are marketing new technologies to potential licensees, negotiating licensing terms, and constr...

Lisa’s guest on this episode of TTIP is Rob Gerlach. Rob is the Executive Director of Tech Transfer and Commercialization at Wichita State University and a registered Patent Attorney. At Wichita State, Rob is tasked with protecting the University’s intellectual property and transferring innovation from the university to the commercial marketplace where its true potential can be realized. Rob belie...

"My vision for VCU Innovation Gateway is to bring national prominence and world-class recognition and value to VCU, and it's inventors." In this episode of Tech Transfer IP , Lisa is talking with Koffi Selom Egbeto. Koffi is a Technology Commercialization Manager with the Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) Innovation Gateway. Before working at VCU, Koffi was a Licensing Associate w...

In this episode of Tech Transfer IP , Lisa is talking with Louise Epstein. Louise is the Executive in Residence at the Austin Technology Incubator (affiliated with UT Austin) and a principal advisor with the Larta Institute . In both positions, she provides business commercialization advice to science-based startups. Before Larta, Louise was the Director of University Partnerships for the Walton F...

Keith Marmer from the University of Utah is Lisa’s guest on this episode of Tech Transfer IP . Keith is the Chief Innovation & Economic Engagement Officer at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City. Before working at the PIVOT Center , Keith served as the Associate Vice President for Technology & Venture Commercialization and Corporate Partners at the University of Utah. Keith shares his...

Today, Lisa's guest is David Hinton, the Acting Executive Director of Technology Ventures at the University of Arkansas and the Interim Director of the Arkansas Research and Technology Park . David is also an Adjunct Professor in the Strategy, Entrepreneurship & Venture Innovation Department at the University of Arkansas and is the graduate-level New Venture Department course's co-inst...

Today Lisa has the pleasure of speaking with Kelly Sexton on this episode of Tech Transfer IP . Kelly is the Associate Vice President for Research-Technology Transfer and Innovations at the University of Michigan. Kelly works closely with the Vice President for Research and other leaders across the university to provide visionary and strategic leadership of U of M's innovation, business engage...

Lisa is speaking with Dr. Stephanie Miller on this episode of Tech Transfer IP . Stephanie is the Executive Director of Technology Transfer & Research Park Initiatives at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University (ERAU). Stephanie joined ERAU in May 2013 to establish the university's first technology transfer office, enabling university research results to become real-world products. In this ca...

Today on Tech Transfer IP, Lisa has the pleasure of speaking with Michael Perham. Mike is the Director of Innovations and External Relations at the Janelia Research Campus in Ashburn, Virginia. At Janelia, Mike leads the Department of Innovation Management and oversees external relations and library services. He handles technology management, IP protection, licensing, and decimation for Janelia wi...

How is tech transfer different in Australia? Listen as your host Lisa discusses tech transfer in Australia with her guest, Alastair Hick. Alastair is the Senior Director of Monash Innovation at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia. Alastair has over 20 years of experience in the research and technology commercialization sectors. Since joining Monash, he has developed a successful licensing an...

Today on  Tech Transfer IP  your host Lisa has the pleasure of welcoming Ellen Kats to the show. Ellen is an Assistant Director of Licensing at Innovation Ventures at the University of California at San Francisco (UCSF). At UCSF, Ellen is responsible for sourcing and completing high-value deals for UCSF’s most commercially attractive technologies. Besides helping bring UCSF’s innovation from bench...

"No amount of time wandering around the garden thinking about what you are going to write actually puts words on the page." Today Lisa has the pleasure to welcome Tom Hockaday to the show. Tom is the author of the book, University Technology Transfer: What It Is and How to Do It , published in April 2020 by the Johns Hopkins University Press. Tom was the director of Oxford University Innov...

Lisa is happy to welcome Michael Carriere to the show today. Michael is an Assistant Director at the University of California Davis Innovation Access in Davis, California. Michael graduated from UC Davis and has a Ph. D. in Plant Biology. After three years at a breeding company in the private sector, he returned to UC Davis to manage its highly competitive strawberry licensing program. For over 20...

Welcome to this episode of Tech Transfer IP. Today Lisa's guest is Fiona Wills. Fiona is the Associate Vice Provost of Innovation Development and Commercialization CoMotion at the University of Washington (UW). Fiona's group guides researchers through project development towards impact through licensing either to an existing company, a UW or startup and incubation, or direct user licensing...

Hello and welcome! In this episode, Lisa speaks with Joe Runge, Tyler Scherr, and Charlie Litton, hosts of the very informative and funny podcast, Innovation Overground. For those of you who are not familiar with the podcast, it was created to help promote academic innovation and the Technology Transfer and Commercialization efforts at the University of Nebraska and beyond. The podcast examines wh...

Lisa's guest, today on Tech Transfer IP, is Travis Cook. Travis is the Associate Director of Technology Development and Licensing at Oregon Health and Science University (OHSU). He is a cross-functional international business development professional with experience managing, negotiating, and closing early, late, and commercial-stage definitive agreements. Travis is also co-inventor on seven p...

"Our preferred approach is effectively commercializing research outcomes before we create IP." Listen as Lisa and guest Tim Boyle discuss his journey to Tech Transfer, how his office is structured, and the role of philanthropic organizations, plus much more on this episode of Tech Transfer IP . Tim is the Director of Innovation & Commercialisation at ANSTO - Australia's Nuclear Sci...

Did you know that NCATS issued over 45 patents in eighteen months? Listen as Lisa and guest, Lili Portilla, discuss the different parts of NIH, what NCATS is and what it does, and their work with small businesses and much more on this episode of Tech Transfer IP . Lili is the Director of Strategic Alliances of the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences , also known as NCATS at the Na...

“If we focus on the known unknowns, we might lose some capability to identify and respond to things we don’t currently know are problems.” Listen as Lisa and her guest, Jason Owen Smith, discuss his book Research Universities And The Public Good: Discovery for an Uncertain Future , the public values of research universities, how they are funded, and much more on this episode of Tech Transfer IP ....

Welcome to Tech Transfer IP! Listen as your host Lisa and her guest, Laura Fritts, discuss her transition from a partner at a law firm to her tech transfer and her position at Emory, working in academia, the Emory Patent Group why it was formed and some of their biggest success stories plus much or on this episode. Laura is the Director of the License and Patent Strategy & Chief Intellectual P...

Did you know that LSU has eight campuses in their system? Listen as Lisa and her guest, Andrew Maas, discuss his journey to Tech Transfer, the LSU system, what led up to his position at LSU, his office's success, LSU's licenses, disclosures, patents and much more on this episode of Tech Transfer IP. Andy is the Associate Vice President of Louisiana State University. Andy is responsible for...

Did you know that Michigan State University Technologies has in the neighborhood of 700 million dollars a year in research expenditures? Listen as Lisa and her guest, Richard Chylla, discuss tech transfer at Michigan State University, the three offices that make up the MSU Innovation Center, his experience with patents and licensing, and much more on this episode of Tech Transfer IP. Richard is th...