Vice Provost and Dean of Research
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Debbie Amoroso
Adm Assoc 3, Environmental Health and Safety (EH&S)
Current Role at StanfordStanford ChemTracker Administrator
Hazardous Materials Management Coordinator for EHS Hazardous Materials Management Program
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Adam Bailey
HRPP Manager, Vice Provost and Dean of Research - Research Compliance
Current Role at StanfordIn my role as Senior Social and Behavioral IRB Manager, I lead a team that coordinates the IRB review process for all Human Subjects Research that is conducted anywhere in the University outside of the School of Medicine. Our team acts as the liaison between researchers and the IRB, and we are the primary IRB contact for researchers planning to conduct Human Subjects Research at Stanford.
We also give regular presentations to various groups on campus about the role of the IRB and Human Subjects Research ethics more generally. Please contact us if you are interested in inviting us to give a presentation to your class or other group. -
Michael Edward Bellas
Licensing Associate, Life Sciences, Office of Technology Licensing (OTL)
BioMichael joined OTL in November 2024 as a Licensing Associate on the Life Sciences team. Prior to joining Stanford, Michael worked in business development within the life sciences industry, focusing on strategy, patent filing, and licensing opportunities. He also prepared and negotiated agreements for technology licensing and collaboration with academic partners. Michael holds a B.S. from the University of California, Berkeley.
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Matthew Berman
Intellectual Property Manager, Life Sciences, Office of Technology Licensing (OTL)
BioMat is a patent attorney and also has many years of experience working as a university technology licensing professional. Mat advises his OTL colleagues on patent law, IP strategy, and agreement drafting.
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Emmanuel Candes
Barnum-Simons Chair of Math and Statistics, and Professor of Statistics and, by courtesy, of Electrical Engineering
BioEmmanuel Candès is the Barnum-Simons Chair in Mathematics and Statistics, a professor of electrical engineering (by courtesy) and a member of the Institute of Computational and Mathematical Engineering at Stanford University. Earlier, Candès was the Ronald and Maxine Linde Professor of Applied and Computational Mathematics at the California Institute of Technology. His research interests are in computational harmonic analysis, statistics, information theory, signal processing and mathematical optimization with applications to the imaging sciences, scientific computing and inverse problems. He received his Ph.D. in statistics from Stanford University in 1998.
Candès has received several awards including the Alan T. Waterman Award from NSF, which is the highest honor bestowed by the National Science Foundation, and which recognizes the achievements of early-career scientists. He has given over 60 plenary lectures at major international conferences, not only in mathematics and statistics but in many other areas as well including biomedical imaging and solid-state physics. He was elected to the National Academy of Sciences and to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2014. -
Cheryl Cathey
Senior Licensing and Strategic Alliance Manager, Office of Technology Licensing (OTL)
BioCheryl is a Senior Licensing and Strategic Alliance Manager focused on life sciences and has been working in technology transfer for more than five years. She has over 25 years’ experience as an entrepreneur, executive, business development professional and engineer in start-up, mid-size and large life science companies.
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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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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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Leonard Paul Darsow
Graduate, Vice Provost and Dean of Research
BioBerlin-based Entrepreneur
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Evan Elder
Assistant Director, Physical Sciences, Office of Technology Licensing (OTL)
BioEvan is the Assistant Director of Physical Sciences Licensing at Stanford OTL. He has spent the last 10 years working in technology transfer managing a broad portfolio of inventions from Stanford and SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory. Prior to joining Stanford, Evan spent over 10 years in alternative energy and power systems research and development.
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Richard John Freeman
Licensing Manager, Life Sciences, Office of Technology Licensing (OTL)
BioRichard J Freeman, PhD; Licensing Manager - Life Sciences
Richard joined the OTL in December of 2024, as a Licensing Manager on the Life Sciences Team. Prior to joining Stanford, Richard ran his own company focused on helping start-ups in the life sciences sector to make their first steps into commercial operations and prior to that worked in sales for large life science companies like Fisher Scientific & Roche.
Richard holds a PhD in Biotechnology from Heriot-Watt University, and a BSc (Hons) in Microbiology from the University of Aberdeen. -
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. -
Laurie Friedman
Deputy Emergency Manager, Office of Emergency Management, Environmental Health and Safety (EH&S)
Current Role at StanfordDeputy Emergency Manager in the Stanford Office of Emergency Management (OEM) responsible for response planning, business continuity planning, training, and exercises for University Department Operations Centers (DOCs) and the University Emergency Operations Center (EOC). Contributor to the design of University business continuity planning and developer of OEM programs, training and services. Currently managing ongoing development of the CardinalReady preparedness program and web presence. Ms. Friedman is a Stanford instructor in the School of Medicine, Health and Human Performance program. She teaches EMED-101, a 1 unit class where students are certified to serve on the Stanford Community Emergency Response Team (CERT).
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Nancy Fuller
Sr Finance Specialist, License Agreements & Inventor Distributions, Office of Technology Licensing (OTL)
BioNancy is responsible for license agreement entry and database, royalty distribution to all inventors and third parties, and equity related tasks. Nancy also leads a team of financial specialists for accounting and income – Nita and Gerard.
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Russell Furr
Associate Vice Provost for Environmental Health & Safety, Environmental Health and Safety (EH&S)
Current Role at StanfordIn his role as the Associate Vice Provost for Environmental Health and Safety, Russell reports to the Vice Provost and Dean of Research and serves as the senior institutional official for the management of Environmental and Safety programs for the University community. This includes Research Safety, Emergency Management, Office of the Fire Marshal, Environmental Protection Program, and the Occupational Health Center.
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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.
