Vice Provost and Dean of Research
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Elenita Casulla
Finance Specialist - Income and Attorney Bills Processing, Office of Technology Licensing (OTL)
BioNita is responsible for processing licensing income and patent expenses (attorney bills). Nita is also one of the leading parties for distributing royalty checks and payments.
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Varuna Chander
Postdoctoral Scholar, Genetics
Temp - Non-Exempt, Office of Technology Licensing (OTL)BioDr. Varuna Chander is a postdoctoral researcher specializing in genomics and bioinformatics. She holds a BTech and Masters in Industrial Biotechnology, and has experience in early-stage sequencing product development for 7 years. Dr. Chander earned her PhD in Genetics and Genomics from the Human Genome Sequencing Center at Baylor College of Medicine, where she was awarded the NLM Biomedical Informatics and Data Science Fellowship for three years. Her research focused on investigating the molecular causes of rare diseases and also the relationship between somatic mutations in blood and cardiovascular disease risk. Alongside her research, Dr. Chander collaborated on projects employing computational methods to examine the role of structural variation in genetic diseases. Currently, she works with Michael Snyder to study the genomic basis of complex human diseases using multi-omics and machine learning approaches.
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Chu Chang
Licensing Manager, Life Sciences, Office of Technology Licensing (OTL)
Current Role at StanfordTechnology Licensing
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Ying-Li Chen
Assistant Director, Business Development and Strategic Marketing, Office of Technology Licensing (OTL)
BioYing-Li Chen is an Assistant Director, Business Development and Strategic Marketing and manages a team ranging from associates to interns at the Stanford Office of Technology Licensing (OTL). She joined OTL in 2019 and established the Business Development and Marketing Team to lead the technology marketing and public relations efforts. She connects industry partners with inventors to commercialize Stanford’s research and innovation through licensing, strategic alliances, and industry sponsored research. She has more than 11 years of experience in technology commercialization and entrepreneurship at Stanford University, University of California, San Francisco, and Johns Hopkins University.
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Stella Colic
Director, Business Operations, Office of Technology Licensing (OTL)
BioStella manages OTL’s finance and business operations and leads the teams in the following areas: finance, intake and sponsor compliance, HR and IT support.
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Madison Freeman
MBA, expected graduation 2024
Masters Student in Environment and Resources, admitted Spring 2023
Case Writer, Graduate School of Business - Other Faculty
HIT Program and Fund Intern, Office of Technology Licensing (OTL)BioMadison Freeman is a Knight Hennessy Scholar pursuing a master’s degree in business administration at Stanford Graduate School of Business and a master’s degree in environment and resources at the Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability through the Emmett Interdisciplinary Program in Environment and Resources. She focuses on innovative approaches to scale emerging climate solutions, especially those accelerating decarbonization of heavy industries and transportation.
Immediately prior to Stanford, Madison served in the Biden administration as a senior advisor on technology and innovation to Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry, where she led industrial decarbonization global initiatives including the First Movers Coalition. She spent three years in venture capital at Energy Impact Partners, a leading climate investment fund with strategic LPs across the utility and built environment space. At EIP, she developed investment strategy for new sectors explored by the firm, engaged strategic LPs, invested in hardtech startups and helped establish funds focused on backing underrepresented founders and deep decarbonization breakthroughs. She started her career in climate and innovation policy think tanks, at the Atlantic Council and Council on Foreign Relations. Madison founded and directed the NYC chapter of the Clean Energy Leadership Institute, was a 2021 Women Leader in Energy and Climate Fellow with the Atlantic Council, and her clean energy analysis has been published in outlets including NPR, Foreign Affairs, and The Hill. She graduated from American University with a bachelor's degree in international relations and economics. -
Lisa Freitas
Compliance Manager, Office of Technology Licensing (OTL)
BioOTL Responsibilities:
Handles government compliance for Stanford inventions as well as assists in other invention compliance matters. -
Nancy Fuller
Sr Finance Specialist, License Agreements, Inventor Distributions & Equity Lead, Office of Technology Licensing (OTL)
BioNancy is responsible for licensing agreements database, royalty sharing agreements and royalty distribution to foreign inventors and third parties, and equity related tasks. Nancy also leads a team of financial specialists for accounting and income – Nita and Rob.
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Irit Gal
Senior Licensing Manager, Physical Sciences, Office of Technology Licensing (OTL)
BioIrit Gal, Sr. Licensing Associate, Stanford Office of Technology Licensing (OTL)
Irit Gal manages a large portfolio of inventions across many fields, including life science, bio engineering and physical sciences, medical imaging with the goal of bringing early stage technologies to market, building relationships with industry and the investment community and pier institutions and negotiating licensing agreements. With a Bsc. and Msc. degrees in Chemical Engineering from the Technion, Israel Institute of Technology and MA in Economics from CUNY, Irit enjoys being at the intersection of technology and business facilitating the commercialization of innovations.
Prior experiences include Price Waterhouse Coopers and Deloitte Consulting, Runway Telecom incubator, ZettaLight and Ceramight technologies start ups. -
Risa Gearhart-Serna
Business Development and Marketing Associate for the Life Sciences, Office of Technology Licensing (OTL)
BioRisa is a technology transfer professional dedicated to the commercialization of research inventions. She is a PhD/MBA with a scientific background in multiple biomedical fields, including molecular cancer biology, toxicology, immunology, microbiology, and biomedical engineering. She is passionate about working at the intersection of science and business toward improving public health.
Education
2022 - MBA, Management, University of the People
2021 - PhD, Pathology, Duke University School of Medicine
2021 - Graduate Certificate, Integrated Toxicology and Environmental Health, Duke University
2016 - BS, Biology & BA, Environmental Studies, Mills College (now part of Northeastern University) -
Dyneisha Gray
Hit Program Administrator, Office of Technology Licensing (OTL)
Staff, Stanford Office of Technology LicensingBioDyneisha holds a B.S. in Business Administration from California State University Bakersfield. Dyneisha brings administrative experience from her previous roles as an Executive Assistant and Operations Manager for Viva Superheroes where she coordinated company events and managed calendars.
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Kimberly Griffin
Senior Technology Licensing and Strategic Alliances Manager, Office of Technology Licensing (OTL)
BioKim is a Senior Technology Licensing and Strategic Alliances Manager at OTL focused on life sciences. She brings almost a decade's worth of technology transfer and strategic alliance experience to OTL after previously working at a private cancer research foundation, Northwestern University, University of Chicago, and the National Cancer Institute.
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Tina Ha
Licensing Operations Manager, Office of Technology Licensing (OTL)
BioTina is responsible for Royalty Sharing Agreements, system support for licensing terms, overall database (4D) support for the office, cross-functional operations and process improvements and special projects. Tina also leads a team of financial and data analysts - Sin and Jevan.
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Shawn Harlan
Administrative Associate, Office of Technology Licensing (OTL)
Current Role at StanfordAssistant to the Executive Director
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Tuuli Maria Hietamies
Postdoctoral Scholar, Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine
Marketing Intern, Office of Technology Licensing (OTL)BioTuuli Hietamies, PhD, is a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Anaesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine. Her research interests include studying psychedelics and utilising these in the context of brain injury and rehabilitation.
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Leslie Huang
Industrial Contracts Officer, Office of Technology Licensing (OTL)
BioLeslie is an Industrial Contracts Officer in Stanford's Office of Technology Licensing.
Prior to joining Stanford, Leslie was a process engineer at Applied Materials and an in-house attorney at various Bay Area technology companies focusing on intellectual property and commercial transactions. She earned a B.A. in History and a B.S. in Materials Science Engineering with an Electronic Materials Specialization from UCLA and a J.D. with a High Tech Law Certificate (Intellectual Property Specialization) from Santa Clara University School of Law. She is admitted to practice law in the State of California. -
Joseph Kao
MSx Fellow, expected graduation 2024
HIT Program and Fund Intern, Office of Technology Licensing (OTL)BioI'm a MSx student in the GSB developing ecopreneurship for circular economies (lithium ion battery recycling/repurposing, digital platforms for food waste recycling, etc.). Before GSB, I had 10+ years of hardware R&D experiences in chemical and consumer electronics industries.
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Madeleine Douglass Kieca
Industrial Contracts Offcr 1, Office of Technology Licensing (OTL)
BioMaddy is an Industrial Contracts Officer in the Office of Technology Licensing at Stanford after practicing as an attorney for over ten years external to the University. Maddy has experience negotiating and drafting contracts as well as interfacing directly with various individual and entity clients. She received her BA in English with an emphasis in Creative Writing from the University of Southern California and her JD from Santa Clara University School of Law. She is admitted to practice law in the State of California.
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Debbie Kwon
Contract Employee, Office of Technology Licensing (OTL)
Staff, Stanford Office of Technology LicensingBioDebbie has been with OTL since 2008 and focuses on marketing/industry partnerships for medical device and physical science technologies as well as special projects. She has a B.S. in Civil/Environment Engineering from MIT and M.S. from Stanford.
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Katherine Dominique Lane
Industrial Contracts Officer, Office of Technology Licensing (OTL)
BioKatherine is an Industrial Contracts Officer in the Office of Technology Licensing at Stanford. Katherine holds a Double Major Bachelor's degree in Economics and Biological Sciences, with Minors in Chemistry and Physical Sciences from San Jose State University and a Juris Doctorate from Lincoln Law School in San Jose. Before joining the team at ICO, Katherine worked at Stanford Medical Center for over a decade.
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Minxing Li
Licensing and Strategic Alliances Manager, Office of Technology Licensing (OTL)
BioMinxing is a Technology Licensing Associate at Stanford OTL with a focus on life sciences technologies.
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Liz Long
Senior Industrial Contracts Coordinator, Office of Technology Licensing (OTL)
BioLiz is an Industrial Contracts Coordinator at ICO. She manages the ICO inbox, coordinates and signs simple agreements, performs administrative tasks, and assists with special projects within ICO.
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Chelsea Longwell
Business Development and Marketing Associate for Physical Sciences, Office of Technology Licensing (OTL)
BioPrior to joining Stanford OTL as a Business Development & Marketing Associate, Chelsea earned her PhD in Chemical & Systems Biology from Stanford University. She manages business development and outreach for Stanford technologies in the physical sciences and co-manages the OTL internship program.
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Roxana I. Malene
Senior Industrial Contracts Officer, Office of Technology Licensing (OTL)
BioIn 2023, I joined Stanford University’s Industrial Contracts Office as a Senior Officer. As a seasoned negotiator, I focus on growth, community and collaboration, results and creating long-lasting partnerships.
A native of Romania, I immigrated in the U.S. in 2002. Later, I attended Northwestern University to explore my interest in Psychology, Neuroscience, and Computational Linguistics, and then Case Western Reserve University for Law School. I returned to Chicago where I litigated on behalf of the city and then sought justice for the unlawfully incarcerated victims of Jon Burge, as an attorney with the Illinois Torture Inquiry and Relief Commission. In 2017, I pursued my interest in transactional law and joined Northwestern’s team of contracts officers in the university’s office for sponsored research where I discovered my passion for research administration. I later joined The University of Chicago’s central research administration team to lead the team of industry contracts, create the necessary infrastructure and expand engagement with corporations interested in funding the research of brilliant faculty and partnering with the university.
Fun fact: my first visit to a university campus in the U.S. was at the majestic Stanford University. Needless to say, I am happy to return and be part of the Stanford community! -
David Mallin
Licensing Manager, Physical Sciences, Office of Technology Licensing (OTL)
BioBefore joining Stanford as a Licensing Associate, David graduated from the University of California, Irvine with a Ph.D. in Chemical and Material Physics. His multidisciplinary research in the Taborek lab focused on the low-temperature fluid dynamics of superfluid helium. During his graduate studies, he spent over three years as a technology transfer intern in UCI Applied Innovation’s Research Translation Group. He was responsible for intellectual property assessment of technologies in physics, chemistry, engineering, and computer science.
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Brenda Martino
Biological Materials Specialist, Office of Technology Licensing (OTL)
BioBrenda is a Biological Materials Specialist at OTL. She negotiates license agreements with industry for unpatented biological material (e.g. cell lines and mouse models) on behalf of Stanford, and coordinates and processes material transfer agreements.
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Cristobal Maturana
Other Tech - Graduate, Office of Technology Licensing (OTL)
BioI am a first year MBA Candidate and E-IPER student at Stanford passionate about leveraging technology to solve social problems. Particularly interested in helping to move forward the transition to clean energies in Latin America.
Before coming to Stanford I worked in management consulting for BCG, were I helped clients in the Industrial Goods space to improve their operations, supported Financial Institutions to re-define their strategies and helped high tech innovators to create a scalable business model and look for funding. Prior to BCG, I was a high school teacher of Leadership and Social Engagement and I worked as an intern at Simon de Cirene Foundation helping micro-entrepreneurs to grow their businesses.
I hold a degree in Industrial Engineering with a Diploma in Electrical Engineering and specialization in Astronomical Instrumentation. During my undergraduate studies, I co-managed and co-founded social projects for students. -
Krish Mehta
MBA, expected graduation 2024
Masters Student in Environment and Resources, admitted Spring 2023
HIT Fund and Program Intern, Office of Technology Licensing (OTL)BioPassionate about cleantech / climate entrepreneurship. Previously, manager for Model 3 program at Tesla, and Engagement manager at McKinsey's Sustainability practice.
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Luis Mejia
Senior Licensing Manager, Physical Sciences, Office of Technology Licensing (OTL)
BioLuis has been a technology transfer professional at Stanford for over 30 years. He is a volunteer for Climate Donor, Inc. a non-profit that helps fund climate change and species extinction mitigation projects. Prior to joining Stanford he worked on solar energy systems and energy management at Honeywell and Pacific Gas & Electric. He has a degree in Energy Systems Engineering from Arizona State University, is a Fellow of the Disruptor Foundation and is a recipient of an award for Excellence in Technology Transfer from the Department of Energy, Federal Laboratory Consortium.
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Laura Clark Murray
Program Manager for High Impact Technology (HIT) Fund, Office of Technology Licensing (OTL)
BioLaura joined OTL in 2022 to launch the High Impact Technology (HIT) Fund and Program. She has led product marketing management, project management, and operations efforts for Apple, Electronic Arts, and for numerous startups.
