Services Offered for Non-Profit Disease Research Foundations

DGA is available to assist non-profit disease research foundations carry out venture philanthropy or other programs fostering translational research or academic-industry collaborations.  Making use of David Glass’s extensive experience with academic-industry relations and strategic patent management, there are several ways DGA can serve as resource for foundations to outsource portions of such programs.

Patents, Technology Transfer, and Academic-Industrial Relations

• Assist in review of grant proposals.
• Assist in scouting new technologies suitable for academic-industry partnering.
• Assess intellectual property associated with candidate research programs.
• Manage patent portfolios related to specific funded research programs, or which have been assigned to the foundation, including liaison to outside attorneys.
• Negotiate industry-academic agreements to foster the collaborative development of promising technologies.
• Help manage or coordinate funded academic-industry collaborations.
  

For any of the above functions, Dr. Glass can be available on an as-needed basis for specific projects, or we can commit to longer-term availability for specified functions, for an agreed-upon number of hours a week under a monthly retainer. Other arrangements can be considered as well.

Relevant Experience

• Over two decades experience in technology transfer, patents and licensing, including leadership roles in technology transfer at Massachusetts General Hospital, McLean Hospital, Joslin Diabetes Center, Baystate Medical Center, and the University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth. 
• Track record of success conducting and closing industry-academic negotiations for licenses, research collaborations and other types of agreements, from both sides of the table.
• Experience coordinating collaborations and research partnerships between academic institutions and industry, including major sponsored research agreements and a research consortium.
• Extensive familiarity with biotechnology and biomedical patents, including strategic management of large patent portfolios in industry and academia.
• Scientific training and familiarity with several medical fields, including diabetes, metabolic disease, as well as neurological, neurodegenerative and psychiatric disorders.

Qualifications

David Glass has over 25 years experience with biotechnology intellectual property protection, having managed patent programs in academia and industry. Significant experience negotiating license, option, sponsored research agreements, and related agreements on behalf of Harvard-affiliated teaching hospitals and within the University of Massachusetts system. Dr. Glass was awarded the Certified Licensing Professional (CLP)TM certification in July 2008 and the Registered Technology Transfer Professional (RTTP) certification in November 2013. Please click here to view Dr. Glass's curriculum vitae.