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Lunch and Presentation
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Date:
Tuesday, October 21, 2003

Topic:
Partnering with Industry

This presentation will provide some background on technology transfer at Johns Hopkins, and will focus on success stories and opportunities from the School of Public Health for industry, ranging from licensing innovations, to consulting with our scientific experts, helping to launch start ups, sponsoring research in our labs, to hiring our students. The Johns Hopkins School of Public Health is the oldest, largest, and most academically acclaimed school of public health in the world.

The speaker, Deborah Alper is the Director of Intellectual Property Management of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. She has held leadership positions in technology transfer for over a dozen years. Before coming to Johns Hopkins in 2001, she created and led the copyright commercialization activities at the University of Michigan. Deborah has an MBA degree with a concentration in finance and marketing and a BA in history and government. Deborah is experienced in working with faculty and industry to develop and implement business strategies that will move science along the path to becoming a marketable product. She has negotiated over 100 agreements with a variety of industry sectors and developed innovative programs that have served as models for tech transfer approaches at many universities.

Location:
Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner, L.L.P.
1300 I Street, N.W., 2nd Floor (East), Washington, D.C. 20005
12:00 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.

Metro stops: Orange and blue lines: McPherson Square,
14th Street - Franklin Square exit Red line.
Metro Center, 13th Street exit

Parking: Limited at 1300 I Street, there are various parking garages on 13th and 14th Street.

R.S.V.P.
Three days in advance of meeting by mailing a copy of the registration form and the registration fee to:

John C. Paul
Washington Chapter Chairman, Licensing Executives Society
Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner, L.L.P.
1300 I Street, N.W. Washington, D.C. 20005-3315
Telephone: 202.408.4109, Facsimile: 202.408.4400
e-mail: john.paul@finnegan.com

Cost:
Please ENCLOSE $20.00 (payable to Finnegan Henderson) for each attendee.