Jon Soderstrom, managing director of Yale's Office of Cooperative Research, picks up Bayh-Dole Award from AUTM.
Jon Soderstrom, managing director of US-based Yale University’s Office of Cooperative Research, has won the 2014 Bayh-Dole Award during the 2014 Association of University Technology Managers (AUTM) annual meeting.
Since joining the office in 1996, Soderstrom has converted Yale’s scientific research into more than 25 ventures that have raised more than $450m in venture capital.
He was the 2008 president of AUTM, and is also a founding board member and past president of the Association of Federal Technology Transfer Executives, as well as a member of the Licensing Executive Society.
AUTM is a non-profit organization with an international membership of more than 3,200 technology managers and business executives. AUTM members — managers of intellectual property, one of the most active growth sectors of the global economy — come from more than 300 universities, research institutions, and teaching hospitals as well as numerous businesses and government organizations.
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