Coburn leaves CCI for Partners

Christopher Coburn (pictured), executive director of US-based Cleveland Clinic Innovations (CCI), will move to non-profit peer Partners HealthCare to be vice-president of research ventures and licensing (RVL).

RVL is the division that coordinates industrial relationships and intellectual property management across Partners HealthCare, Massachusetts General Hospital and Brigham and Women’s Hospital. Partners HealthCare is integrated health system with a $1.4bn annual research budget founded by Brigham and Women’s Hospital
 and Massachusetts General Hospital and affiliated with Harvard University.

At Cleveland Clinic,…