Vice Provost and Dean of Research
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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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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 & Equity Lead, 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. -
Melina Gehring
Project Mgr 2 - General, Environmental Health and Safety (EH&S)
Current Role at StanfordAs Research Safety Excellence Lead at Stanford Environmental Health & Safety (EH&S), Melina provides high-profile project management, organizational development, and performance improvement for significant Research Safety undertakings that promote health, safety, and well-being among Stanford’s community of 10,000+ researchers. Her projects focus on Research Safety operational improvement (e.g., metrics development, service design); cross-departmental initiatives (e.g., reports and communications for research leadership, stakeholder events); and multi-year strategic initiatives (e.g., training needs assessment, standards development, knowledge management). Her role harnesses the energies and talents of a wide cross-section of the research community, including principal investigators (PIs), student researchers and post-doctoral fellows, visiting scientists, scientific staff, building and district managers, and university administrators. Melina strives to position both EH&S and Stanford researchers for success in the coming era of research innovation, interdisciplinary complexity, and cutting-edge research methods and technologies.
As a Public Health Project Manager at Environmental Health & Safety, Melina supported the University’s endemic response across the main campus, Redwood City campus, and SLAC. She also served as a facilitator for the Public Health Steering Committee (PHSC), which is charged with the strategic oversight of emerging and endemic public health concerns for the University.
As a member of the Client Services team at University Human Resources (UHR), Melina supported Stanford's Flexible Work effort as the university identifies best practices to support on-site, hybrid, and remote work. She has served as the project manager of the Work Arrangement functionality in Axess and contributed to the university's COVID Compliance effort. She also led a process improvement project focusing on the Stanford Celebrates You program and helped design a strategy for future DEI-based employee recognition efforts at Stanford.
At the Stanford University Office of Emergency Management (OEM), Melina and her colleagues worked toward the vision of a disaster-resilient university. Since March 2020, Melina has supported the Stanford Emergency Operations Center's (EOC) strategic response to COVID-19 and has carried this commitment into her position at UHR as well as her current position back with EH&S.
Prior to this role with Environmental Health & Safety, Melina worked at Stanford's Office of International Affairs (OIA), where she helped develop strategy and communications infrastructure to support Stanford faculty, staff, and students with their global research and education initiatives. At OIA, Melina also managed the start-up phase of Stanford's new research center in Korea (SCIGC).
Melina is a Project Management Professional (PMP), a Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO) and helped revive and grow the Community of Practice "Agile Stanford," which promotes Agile project management across campus.
Before coming to Stanford, Melina worked as an educational consultant in London (UK), supported international graduate students at Dartmouth College, and served as a desk officer at Germany's Federal Foreign Office in Berlin.
Melina holds a Ph.D. in American Studies (University of Hamburg) and an M.Phil. in International Relations (University of Cambridge). She has published two books as well as several peer-reviewed articles in two different academic disciplines (American Studies and Musicology).
Outside of work, Melina volunteers as a board member of the Palo Alto Family YMCA with a focus on youth development programs. -
James N. "Jim" Gilson, PE
Sr. Safety Engineer, Environmental Health and Safety (EH&S)
Staff, Environmental Health and Safety (EH&S)BioSafety and Risk Management Engineer Specializing in:
* Research technical safety and risk management.
* Electrical Safety in Research and Facilities.
* Energy Hazard Controls and Fail Safe Equipment Design.
* Risk Assessment of Research Equipment involved in Human Subject Studies.
* Facility Design Review focused on Risk Reduction and Safety Enhancement
* SOPs for Proprietary / Complex Research Equipment
* Safety and Risk Reduction Policy / Program Development / Implementation
* Technical / Complex Accident Investigation and Root Cause Analysis.
* Executive Management Risk and Safety Coaching.
* Safety Management Team Building, Facilitation and Mentorship
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Jonathan D. Gortat
Director for Licensing and Strategic Alliances for Physical Sciences, Office of Technology Licensing (OTL)
BioJonathan Gortat is the Director of Licensing and Strategic Alliances at Stanford University's Office of Technology Licensing with more than 15 years experience in technology transfer. Prior to joining Stanford, he was assistant director at the University of Illinois-Chicago Office of Technology Management and in various roles at Purdue Research Foundation in technology transfer and working on a pre-seed investment fund. In addition, he has more than 5 years industrial pharmacy research and project management experience. He has extensive experience in pharmaceutical and chemical unit operations and analytical methods associated with the pharmaceutical industry. He holds an MBA from the Krannert Graduate School of Management at Purdue University and a baccalaureate of science degree in Chemical Engineering from Purdue University.
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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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Laura Gwilliams
Assistant Professor of Psychology and, by courtesy, of Linguistics
BioLaura Gwilliams is jointly appointed between Stanford Psychology, Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute and Stanford Data Science. Her work is focused on understanding the neural representations and operations that give rise to speech comprehension in the human brain. To do so, she brings together insight from neuroscience, linguistics and machine learning, and takes advantage of recording techniques that operate at distinct spatial scales (MEG, ECoG and Neuropixels).
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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 analysts and specialist - Sin, Jevan, and Stacey.
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Serena Hanes
Licensing Coordinator, Office of Technology Licensing (OTL)
BioSerena is a Licensing Coordinator at Stanford OTL, supporting various projects for the licensing and strategic alliances teams. Since she rejoined Stanford in 2023, she has been involved in coordinating overall process efficiencies and project management for the teams. She brings well over a decade of technology transfer experience after previously working as the Stanford Innovation Project Administrator and Licensing Liaison within OTL, and as the IP Manager at Cornell's Center for Technology Licensing.
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Shawn Harlan
Administrative Associate, Office of Technology Licensing (OTL)
Current Role at StanfordAssistant to the Associate Vice Provost at OTL
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Christopher Haynes
Director of Industry and Technology Transactions, Office of Technology Licensing (OTL)
BioChristopher Haynes is the Director of Industry and Technology Transactions within the Industrial Contracts Office, Office of Technology Licensing. In this capacity, Chris is responsible for the oversight of daily activities of the Industrial Contracts Office. Chris has extensive experience drafting and negotiating complex agreements and interfacing with research staff to ensure research objectives are met. Prior to joining Stanford, Chris's career has spanned both pharmaceutical and academic settings. His career experience includes previously roles as Senior Counsel - Licensing and Transactions at Sangamo Therapeutics, Inc., In-House Counsel - Worldwide Research and Discovery (WWRD) and Business Development (BD) at BioMarin Pharmaceutical, Inc., and Commercialization Manager and IP Counsel at the University of Louisville's Office of Technology Transfer.
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Brian Hie
Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering
BioI am an Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering at Stanford University, the Dieter Schwarz Foundation Stanford Data Science Faculty Fellow, and an Innovation Investigator at Arc Institute. I supervise the Laboratory of Evolutionary Design, where we conduct research at the intersection of biology and machine learning.
I was previously a Stanford Science Fellow in the Stanford University School of Medicine and a Visiting Researcher at Meta AI. I completed my Ph.D. at MIT CSAIL and was an undergraduate at Stanford University. -
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.
