New Name: Licensing and Technology
Development Office
William P. Tew has been appointed
Associate Provost and will direct the university's new Licensing
and Technology Development office. The office will consolidate
in one organization the efforts to license technology developed
in all eight of the university's schools. The new office will
provide a clearly defined, single point of contact for intellectual
property management, technology transfer, licensing and technology
development for discoveries and inventions from the university's
eight schools. It consolidates two previously separate units,
the Office of Technology Transfer at the Homewood campus and the
Office of Technology Licensing at the School of Medicine. In addition
to heading the new office, Tew will retain his position as assistant
dean of the School of Medicine, where he has directed technology
licensing activities since 2000.
Joining Tew in the leadership of this new office are Deb Barbara
as senior director of technology development and R. Keith Baker
as senior director of licensing. They are responsible for marketing
the university's intellectual property and supervising the licensing
program, respectively.
