Case Western Reserve University has named Joseph J. Jankowski assistant vice president for biomedical sciences technology transfer.

He joins the university's technology transfer office, where he will oversee the technology transfer activities for the School of Medicine, University Hospitals of Cleveland and the Case Research Institute.

Jankowski had been a commercialization officer in the Office of Innovations at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation (CCF). In that position he helped to establish multinational sponsored research collaborations and to commercialize an array of intellectual property developed by CCF researchers.

Prior to that, Jankowski held the position of technology analyst in the Environmental Technology Commercialization Center at the Battelle Memorial Institute and had been a research assistant with the State University of New York (SUNY) Research Foundation.

Jankowski holds a master's degree in business administration from Case's Weatherhead School of Management, a doctorate in chemistry from SUNY's College of Environmental Sciences and Forestry and a bachelor's degree in chemical and environmental engineering technologies from the University of Dayton.

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