OTT Announces New Website to Expedite Licensing

The NIH Office of Technology Transfer just released its electronic Research Materials tool, eRMa. This new web based tool makes it possible for companies to go on-line to find unpatented materials, license them, and pay for them — all in a few easy steps. See the press release for more information on this new website.

OTT Assists with U.S. Department of State’s International Visitor Leadership Program for Ukraine

The U.S. Department of State has gratefully acknowledged the contributions by staff members from the NIH Office of Technology Transfer (OTT) who assisted with the recently concluded project on “Technology Transfer and Research Commercialization in the U.S.” that was organized for a group of leading scientists and administrators visiting from bioscience institutions in the Ukraine.

As part of the program held at NIH, these visitors from the Ukraine learned how OTT oversees international patent prosecution and negotiates and monitors its licensing agreements, as well as how it handles the development of technology transfer policies for NIH and FDA. Additionally, the visitors were also able to attend the “Fifth Annual Philip S. Chen, Jr., Ph.D. Distinguished Lecture on Innovation and Technology Transfer” given each year at NIH.

The International Visitor Leadership Program (IVLP) is the U.S. Department of State’s premier professional exchange program. Launched in 1940, the IVLP is a professional exchange program that seeks to build mutual understanding between the U.S. and other nations through carefully designed short-term visits to the U.S. for current and emerging foreign leaders. These visits reflect the International Visitors’ professional interests and support the foreign policy goals of the United States. More information about the IVLP can be found by clicking here.

OTT’s Samuel E. Bish, Ph.D. Selected as the 2011 Technology Transfer “Rookie of the Year” by the Federal Laboratory Consortium Mid-Atlantic Region

The Federal Laboratory Consortium for Technology Transfer Mid-Atlantic Region (FLC-MAR) has selected Samuel E. Bish, Ph.D., a Licensing & Patenting Manager in the Cancer Branch of the NIH Office of Technology Transfer (OTT), as the 2011 winner of its Rookie of the Year Award.

The FLC-MAR Rookie of the Year Award recognizes the efforts of an FLC laboratory technology transfer professional in the region who has demonstrated outstanding work in the field of technology transfer in a manner significantly over and above what was called for in the normal course of their work during the past year. The nominee must be new to technology transfer with three years (or less) experience in a technology transfer position.

Dr. Bish earned his Bachelor of Science degree in microbiology with a minor in biochemistry from Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and his Ph.D. in cell biology and molecular genetics from the University of Maryland in College Park, Maryland. He received his new award at a ceremony held on October 6, 2011 at the FLC-MAR Annual Regional Meeting in Cambridge, MD. More information about upcoming activities of the FLC-MAR can be found here.

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