Mihaela D. Bojin

Senior Associate Director @University Of Iowa Research Foundation

Iowa City, IA, US

SKILLS• Intellectual capital management in therapeutics, diagnostics, medical devices, and materials – negotiated and drafted a variety of agreements, and developed IP and commercialization strategies. • Leadership: Director - LES Board, Director - LES Standards Development Organization (SDO) Board, VP/chair roles in the LES USA & Canada, UI Staff Council Executive Committee, UI committees (Conflict of Interest, IP policy, UI Research Council). • Agreements: Negotiated and drafted licenses, options, inter-institutional, nondisclosure, sponsored, material transfer, and collaboration agreements. • Communication skills: led UI outreach campaigns, and presented to over 100 faculty and College meetings, which boosted the UI invention rates by 50%.• Expertise in technology evaluation – conducted hundreds of technology landscape analyses (intellectual property and market analysis reports).• Experience in managing complex patent dockets for U.S. and foreign clients in the fields of chemistry, pharmaceuticals, cosmetics, medicine, and food technology.• Business mentoring experience – advisor to the Faculty Innovators Program (an I-Corps program), and to UI startup companies.• Excellent writing skills – drafted various agreements, patent applications and responses to Office Actions; received six grants as principal investigator; grant reviewer for CUNY.• Managed two student internship programs: marketing, and technology commercialization.• Member of academic and hiring committees at CUNY and UIRF.• Conferences: 2019, 2020, 22021 LES Annual Meeting planning committees, organizer of the NY Theoretical and Computational Chemistry Conference 2010; organizer at the 40th Mid-Atlantic Regional Meeting of the ACS, 2008.• Multidisciplinary chemist, profiled in “Inspiring minds,” featured in Access Magazine, and in Live Science Behind the Scenes, an NSF sponsored website.• IAM Strategy 300 Global Leader

University of Bucharest

B.Sc., Chemistry

University of Iowa

Certificate (In Progress), Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

University of Iowa

Training, HR - Supervisor Training@Iowa

STN Virtual Classes

STN Searching

Harvard University

Professional Development, Negotiation

Colegiul National Carol I (Nicolae Balcescu)

High School, Math-Physics

University of Iowa

Workshop, HR - The Influencer

Cornell University

Ph.D., Chemistry