January 2022

A Message from Lisa ‌

Happy New Year. As we dive into 2022, we are looking forward to expanding our team. Please find more about the open positions below. If you or someone you know would like to join a team dedicated to the pursuit of innovation and entrepreneurship that benefits society, please get in touch with us.   This has been a particularly busy month for news coming out of Yale spinout companies and from Yale innovators, and we are delighted to share it all!   In February, we will be making an announcement about plans for the 2022 Innovation Summit. Lisa D’Angelo, PhD Interim Managing Director Yale OCR Associate Provost for Research

Our News

OCR IS HIRING! Learn more about the opportunities to join our team: Blavatnik Fellowship (4 spots open!) The Blavatnik Fellowship at Yale is designed to identify promising scientists and business people with a passion for biomedical entrepreneurship, to provide a hands-on experience for building their entrepreneurial skills, while simultaneously providing mentorship and professional development responsibilities. Building on the prior success of trainee programs currently running at Yale, which engage both graduate students in the life sciences as well as MBA students, this proposal seeks to leverage those efforts and position the Blavatnik Fellow as the “highest station” in the graduate fellowship ecosystem. This is a one-year fellowship. DEADLINE IS FEBRUARY 18, 2022. APPLY HERE HEAR FROM PAST FELLOWS HERE Associate Director, Blavatnik Fund for Innovation Working in close partnership with the licensing executives and other resources in the Office of Cooperative Research (OCR), the Associate Director will help the Director of Blavatnik facilitate the process of identifying promising technologies by conducting outreach to relevant faculty across the Yale community and preparing the opportunities for presentation to an external investment advisory committee comprised of experts in biopharmaceutical venture investment and corporate development for investment. APPLY HERE Business Development Associate - Physical Sciences Under general supervision of the Executive Director of Business Development, independently elicits and evaluates physical sciences innovations from Yale research, works with OCR staff and outside counsel to secure intellectual property rights, markets technologies, negotiates agreements, and develops and executes commercialization strategies for innovations from Yale research. PHYSICAL SCIENCES - APPLY HERE Business Development Associate Director - Life Sciences Under general supervision of the Executive Director of Business Development, independently elicits and evaluates innovations from Yale research, works with OCR staff and outside counsel to secure intellectual property rights, markets technologies, negotiates agreements, and develops and executes commercialization strategies for innovations from Yale research. LIFE SCIENCES - APPLY HERE

News We're Following ‌

Yale spinout, Simcha Therapeutics raised $40 million in series B financing and has initiated its Phase 1/2 study to evaluate our first-in-class "decoy-resistant" interleukin-18 variant in cancer READ HERE

‌	Yale spinout CaroGen's Hepatitis B vaccine recommended for $6.8M in federal funding READ HERE

‌ ‌	Yale spinout Arvinas recently signed a blockbuster $2.4B deal with Pfizer READ HERE

‌ ‌	Yale PI, Mark Lemmon Is Named Yale Cancer Center Deputy Director READ HERE

‌ ‌	Yale PI, Naftali Kaminski, among authors in Nature publication: Characterization of the COPD alveolar niche using single-cell RNA sequencing READ HERE

‌ ‌	Tsai CITY's Onyeka Obiocha appointed the new Executive Director of CTNext READ HERE

Yale spinout Artizan Biosciences selects lead product candidate for IBD therapeutic development program READ HERE

‌	Current, state-wide industry news. READ HERE

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