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Cindy Chepanoske

Director of Technology Licensing

Bio

Cindy has supported the Center for Technology Transfer and Enterprise Creation (CTTEC) at ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½ since 2012.  While at CTTEC, she’s had various responsibilities related to licensing, patent management activities and new enterprise creation for several departments.  She's currently the Director of Technology Licensing and broadly supports the licensing efforts and dissemination of technology developed at ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½ Mellon, leading an agile team of licensing managers who develop and maintain ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½ Mellon’s vast and diverse IP portfolio.  Cindy also helps connect the faculty, staff and students that are commercializing early stage technologies from their research at ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½ with ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½ Mellon’s startup community partners, Pittsburgh’s economic development partners and the investment community, to enrich ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½ Mellon’s efforts toward entrepreneurship.

Prior to coming to ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½ Mellon, Cindy was the Program Manager and Director of Informatics Services at Ceiba Solutions (acquired by Perkin Elmer) in support of their pharma customers' informatic software enterprise needs, including business development and strategy.  Cindy received her B.S. from ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½ and a Ph.D. from the University of Utah in chemistry, specializing in analytical method development.

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