Friday October 7,
3:30PM to 5:20PM
Room HSB T639
Program in Technology Commercialization II: BioE 505A Studies in Technology Commercialization: The Landscape of Biomedical Entrepeneurship.
Mark Mendel is an invention development manager at Intellectual Ventures. Prior to joining Intellectual Ventures, he served as a consultant and helped to nurture multiple biotech and medical device companies through their seed stage, including Proteon Therapeutics and ValveXchange, where he served at startup CEO.
Patent attorney, Connie Wan, currently serves as the Assistant Director, Chemistry and Materials, at the Intellectual Ventures’ Invention Development Fund. Prior to her position with the Intellectual Ventures, Dr. Wan was a patent attorney with the law firm, Christensen O’Connor Johnson Kindness. Prior to her career in law, Dr. Wan served on research positions in various academic and industrial labs. She is also an inventor and a co‐founder for several Washington based startup companies.
