Jeremiah Mitzelfelt, PhD Integrating the Life Sciences from Molecule to Organism The American Physiological Society Successfully Attaining a Position in Academic Technology Transfer Without a Postdoc Jeremiah Mitzelfelt, PhD Life Sciences Licensing Analyst Office of Technology Commercialization University of Maryland Presented on April 6, 2016 At EB 2016 San Diego, CA April 2016

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Successfully Attaining a Position in Academic Technology Transfer Without a Postdoc Jeremiah Mitzelfelt, Ph.D. Technology Analyst- Life Sciences Office of Technology Commercialization University of Maryland

What is tech transfer? Movement of technology from one stakeholder to another Development Commercialization

How does tech transfer work? Science Business Tech Transfer Law

What skills are most important? (minus experience) Expertise in one of the three sides Communication Willingness to be a jack of all trades Small field, networking is important (AUTM.net) Prior experience becoming more important in Life Science

A day in the life… Education Evaluation Marketing Agreement negotiation

How was my transition? 18 month internship in tech transfer Applying nation-wide took ~6 months 30-40 applications Eight first interviews Four second interviews

Jeremiah Mitzelfelt, PhD jmitzelf@umd.edu The American Physiological Society Jeremiah Mitzelfelt, PhD jmitzelf@umd.edu I am currently a technology analyst for life sciences in the Office of Technology Commercialization at the University of Maryland- College Park. I earned my Ph.D. in Medical Science from the University of Florida in 2011 and spent ~2.5 years as a post-doctoral researcher at Emory University in Atlanta, GA. During the last ~1.5 years of my postdoc, I was an intern in the Office of Technology Transfer at Emory University. I started at my Tech Transfer career at UMD in January 2014 and in August of 2015 started the Masters in Regulatory Science program through the University of Maryland- Baltimore School of Pharmacy, which I will complete in May 2017.

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