Please join the MassBio IP Committee for a discussion of licensing best practices and how licensing companies can maximize their revenue.

Moderator:

• Nurjana Bachman

Panelists TBA

Nurjana Bachman, Business Development Manager in the Technology & Innovation Development Office (TIDO) at Children's Hospital Boston

As Business Development Manager in the Technology & Innovation Development Office (TIDO) at Children's Hospital Boston, Nurjana connects Children’s Hospital investigators with outside industry to create opportunities for partnerships at all stages of research, development, and pre-clinical and clinical investigation. Working closely with Children’s Hospital investigators and corporate partners, Nurjana connects groups with similar R&D objectives and complementary resources and helps to structure partnerships for mutual benefit. Most recently she facilitated Children’s Hospital Boston’s participation in Pfizer’s Centers for Therapeutic Innovation.

Nurjana also leads TIDO’s Marketing Team and is responsible for TIDO’s external and internal communications, outreach events, and strategic marketing initiatives as well as the office’s primary and secondary market research performed to evaluate invention disclosures and to package technology opportunities for licensing.

Prior to becoming Business Development Manager, Nurjana was Licensing Manager at Children's Hospital Boston, licensing technologies from the Departments of Orthopaedics, Vascular Biology, and Cardiology, as well as other areas. In addition to other deals she completed, she licensed a portfolio of technologies from the Department of Orthopaedics that formed the basis of a start-up company developing products to address knee injuries.

Nurjana obtained her Ph.D. in Molecular Biology and Genetics from the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and is a graduate of Swarthmore College.

Upcoming IP Meetings:
May 16: Not Just Patents: All About Trademarks, Trade Secret Protection, & Data Exclusivity
June 13: The Rubber Hits the Road: Litigation