UW News

June 24, 2004

Industry Relations offers Harborview program on working with companies

The series on “Things Your Mother Never Taught You,” sponsored by the School of Medicine’s Industry Relations Office, will present “Working with Companies: Corporate Research and Material Transfer Agreements” at noon on Tuesday, June 29, in Harborview Medical Center’s Research and Training Building.

The program will cover locating sources of corporate funding, UW procedures for non-clinical corporate-sponsored research agreements, and processing of material transfer agreements through the UW. Additional topics include industry expectations from such research agreements and the kind of collaborations that can lead to successful license agreements.

Speakers are Dr. Susan Wray, director of industry relations in the School of Medicine; Trevor Moody, a partner in Frazier Healthcare Ventures; Suzanne Page, director of industry agreements in the UW Grant and Contracts Office; Ariadna Santander, manager of agreements and invention licensing for UW Tech Transfer, and Dr. Paula Szoka, director of technology licensing for UW Tech Transfer.

The program is free and registration is not required.