Gregg Banninger

About Gregg Banninger

Innovation Manager Life Sciences at UNM Rainforest Innovations (formerly STC.UNM)• Interacting with faculty/researchers regarding disclosures, intellectual property protection and commercialization status; • Assisting with review of commercialization activities for a portfolio of technologies, primarily in life sciences, including evaluation, patent protection, marketing and licensing; • Assisting with development and implementation of marketing strategy plans for selected technologies, including establishing initial contacts with potential licensees and partners; • Assisting with maintenance of extensive patent portfolio and correspondence with outside patent law firms handling patent prosecution; • Working with other STC staff, monitoring executed license agreements to assure commercialization, compliance and payment; and • Assisting with the formation and licensing of start-up companies based on UNM technologies

Experience

1. Innovation Manager-life Sciences

   Unm Rainforest Innovations

   May 2019 — Present · Albuquerque, NM, US

   Interacting with faculty/researchers regarding disclosures, intellectual property protection and commercialization status; • Assisting with review of commercialization activities for a portfolio of technologies, primarily in life sciences, including evaluation, patent protection, marketing and licensing; • Assisting with development and implementation of marketing strategy plans for selected technologies, including establishing initial contacts with potential licensees and partners; • Assisting with maintenance of extensive patent portfolio and correspondence with outside patent law firms handling patent prosecution; • Working with other STC staff, monitoring executed license agreements to assure commercialization, compliance and payment; and • Assisting with the formation and licensing of start-up companies based on UNM technologies

Education

• Stony Brook University

  BS, Biochemistry

  1995 — 1999

• Stony Brook University

  PhD, Genetics

  1999 — 2005

Skills

• Licensing
• Western Blotting
• In Vitro
• Protein Chemistry
• Flow Cytometry
• Patentability
• Stem Cells
• Intellectual Property
• In Vivo
• Cell
• Fluorescence Microscopy
• Patents