Office of Technology Transfer
The Office of Technology Transfer serves as the liaison between the Hospital's research community and the pharmaceutical, biotechnological, medical device, diagnostic and venture capital communities. The Office develops and nurtures these collaborations to disseminate intellectual capital for the public benefit as dictated by Congress through the Bayh-Dole Act. There are three Divisions in the Office.
The Division of Corporate Alliances promotes collaborative research relationships between corporate sponsors and the Hospital's academic investigators. Children's Hospital has long been recognized as a leader in both pediatric clinical research and basic laboratory research. Corporate sponsorship enables early-stage research and technologies to be further developed into pre-clinical and, ultimately, clinical applications, thus promoting academic, clinical and corporate goals.
The Division of Intellectual Property is responsible for collecting and processing invention disclosures and working with the inventors to file patent applications where appropriate.
The Division of Technology Commercialization facilitates the transfer of patentable and non-patentable intellectual property, know-how and trade secret technologies to industry through exclusive and non-exclusive licenses, option agreements and the formation of start-up companies.
- Contact the Office of Technology Transfer:
- Phone: 267-426-5371
- Fax: 215-590-5484
- Email: rossj@email.chop.edu
- Office of Technology Transfer Staff:
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- Susan Allen
- Intellectual Property Specialist
- Greg Baker, PhD
- Associate Director, Technology Commercialization
- Debbie Schmidt
- Assistant Director, Corporate Sponsored Research
- Donna Deiss
- Senior Contracts Administrator
- Sharan Kaur
- Manager, Corporate Sponsored Research
- Stephanie Laste
- Intellectual Property Specialist
- Sarah O'Connnor
- Administrative Assistant
- Ellen Purpus, PhD
- Director
- Jovita Ross
- Administrative Assistant
- Vikas Sharma, PhD
- Licensing Associate