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LEADERSHIP

The governance of the UIDP is structured to always have both a university and industry representative in its leadership team. The President and Vice-President alternate every year from Industry and University representatives, insuring equal leadership among the members.

UIDP 2008 Leadership

Susan B. Butts, Ph.D. UIDP President	Susan Butts, Ph.D., is the Senior Director of External Technology at The Dow Chemical Company. In this capacity she is responsible for Dow’s sponsored research programs at over 150 universities, institutes, and national laboratories worldwide and also for Dow’s contract research activities with US and European government agencies. She also holds the position of Global Staffing Leader for R&D, with responsibility for recruiting and hiring programs. Susan Butts is a Dow representative to the Council for Chemical Research, the American Chemical Society’s Committee on Corporation Associates, and the External Technology Director’s Network of the Industrial Research Institute (IRI); a member of the National Council of University Research Administrators (NCURA), the Association of University Technology Managers, the Society of Research Administrators, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and Sigma Xi; and a governing board member for the Council for Chemical Research and the Alliance for Science and Technology Research in America (ASTRA).
R. Timothy Mulcahy, Ph.D. UIDP Vice-President	Dr. Mulcahy was appointed Vice President for Research at the University of Minnesota on February 1, 2005. As Vice President for Research, he is responsible for the oversight and administration of an externally-funded research program of nearly $600 million on the five campuses of the University of Minnesota system. He is also responsible for technology commercialization activities at the University and for the administration of regulatory offices associated with research. He was responsible for the establishment of the University’s Academic and Corporate Relations Center which serves as a “Front Door” to the University and which has as one of its goals the nurturing of long-term partnerships with the University’s corporate partners, government agencies and foundations. Dr. Mulcahy earned his Bachelors degree in Biology from the University of Rochester in 1973 and his doctorate in Pathology and Radiological Sciences from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1979. In 1981 he joined the Department of Pathology at the University of Rochester. In 1985 he was recruited to the University of Wisconsin and became a full Professor in 1991. At Wisconsin, he served as Associate Dean for the Biological Sciences (1996-2005) and Associate Vice Chancellor for Research Policy (2002-2005). As Associate Vice Chancellor he was responsible for coordinating research policy development and implementation and with overseeing compliance with federal research regulations. Dr. Mulcahy’s research has focused on cancer biology, spanning the spectrum from bench research to clinical trials.
Robert Killoren UIDP Immediate Past President	Robert Killoren, CRA, is Associate Vice President for Research Administration at The Ohio State University, where he oversees the operations of the Research Foundation, the Office of Responsible Research Practices, University Laboratory Animal Resources, the Office of Research Information Systems, and the Office of Research Training, Education, and Communications.  He previously was Associate Vice President for Research at The Pennsylvania State University, Director of Patents and Licensing for The University of Missouri, and Director of Grants and Contracts for the University of Missouri-Columbia.  Bob was the inaugural President of the University-Industry Demonstration Partnership in 2006-07.  He has served as the President and as a regional chair of the National Council of University Research Administrators (NCURA), President of the N.E. Section of the International Society of Research Administrators (SRA), and a member of the Board of the Research Administration Certification Council (RACC).  In 2007, Bob received the highest award given by NCURA for Outstanding Achievement in Research Administration; he also received the Distinguished Service Award in 2006 from NCURA.  Bob was honored by SRA with the Excellence Award in 1996 and the Hartford-Nicholsen Award in 1995.  He served as editor of the Research Management Review from 1999-2001.  During his career he has been a member of the Federal Demonstration Partnership, the Council on Governmental Relations, the National Council of University Research Administrators, the International Society of Research Administrators, and the Research Administration Certification Council.
Photo Coming Soon! Connie M. Armentrout	Connie is the Director of Licensing-University Relationships at Monsanto Company. She supports the Technology (discovery) segment of Monsanto by gaining access to university technologies through material transfers and option and license agreements. In addition, she is responsible for any transactions required to fund research at universities, both basic and applied, as well as agreements for university services. Connie also supports the Technology segment by negotiating consulting agreements with academics that participate in various Monsanto activities. Federal grants, CRADAs, material transfers, etc. are also part of Connie’s activities. Prior to coming to Monsanto in September of 2001, Connie was the Director of Technology Development at the University of Oklahoma where she established a new office along with all of the relative processes and procedures. Connie was the Director of the University Patents and Licensing Office at the University of Missouri System from 1988-1999. She was the Industry Contract Liaison for the Office of Sponsored Research at the University of Missouri – Columbia for eight years prior to moving to the Patents and Licensing Office. Connie is a member of and has served in Regional and National Board positions for the Association of University Technology Managers and the National Council of Research Administrators. In addition, she is a member of the Licensing Executive Society.
Mark Crowell	Mark Crowell is Associate Vice Chancellor for Economic Development and Technology Transfer at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Prior to joining UNC, he held similar positions at North Carolina State University and at Duke University. He has extensive experience in technology licensing, start-up company formation, seed capital development, and research campus planning. In his UNC role, Mark sits on the Boards of key economic development and entrepreneurial support agencies in North Carolina, including the North Carolina Biotechnology Center, the Council for Entrepreneurial Development, the Research Triangle Regional Partnership, and the Orange County Economic Development Commission. His responsibilities at UNC include the Office of Technology Development, the Office of Economic and Business Development, research campus program planning and business development, industry research, and international research collaboration development. Mark was the 2005 President of the Association of University Technology Managers (AUTM) and is President of the newly launched AUTM Foundation. He has extensive national and international speaking, consulting, and management experience related to technology transfer and innovation-based economic development. During the past 2 years, he has made keynote addresses on these subjects at conferences and symposia in Singapore, Japan, Korea, the Netherlands, the UK, France, Austria, Russia, Australia, Taiwan, Thailand, Israel, Turkey, the US, and others. His consulting and advisory activities include a number of US and international academic and policy groups and associations, including the National Governors’ Association, the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the National Academies of Sciences, the World Intellectual Property Organization, the Los Alamos National Laboratory (chair, commercialization advisory board) and other numerous international and state government agencies. Mark also serves on the Board of the University-Industry Demonstration Partnership, an initiative coordinated through the National Academies of Sciences designed to expand research and licensing collaborations between universities and industry. Mark has undergraduate (B.A., international studies) and graduate degrees (economic development/regional planning) from UNC-Chapel Hill.
Albert Johnson	Albert Johnson is a senior analyst in the Science & Technology division, Corning Incorporated. He negotiates and manages research contracts, consortia and other affiliations for Corning’s research organization, and also conducts Six Sigma projects. Before joining Corning, Mr. Johnson was a Member of Technical Staff of the Software Engineering Institute in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania. There he provided consulting, training and guidance to senior military program managers and industrial software organizations and was the Education Program’s program administrator. Mr. Johnson earned an MSIA (MBA) from the Tepper School of Business and a BS in management science – both from Carnegie Mellon University; a certificate in management of research, development and technology-based innovation from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and has completed the Advanced Licensing Institute of the Franklin Pierce Law Center. He served on the Board of Directors of the Industrial Research Institute, most recently as chairman of its Finance Committee, and earlier served as chairman of its Research on Research Committee. Albert also participates on government and academic advisory councils that are part of the National Science Foundation, the National Academy of Science, University of Michigan, University of California – Berkeley, and the University of Rochester.
Wayne C. Johnson	Wayne C. Johnson is the Vice President for Hewlett-Packard Company’s University Relations Worldwide, located at HP Laboratories in Palo Alto, California. He is responsible for higher education programs in research, marketing and sales, recruitment, continuing education, public affairs and philanthropy. Johnson joined HP in 2001 from Microsoft’s University Relations department where he managed Program Managers and administrative staff across a customer base of 50 tier-one universities. From 1967 to 2000, he held a variety of positions at the Raytheon Company in Waltham, Massachusetts, including National Sales Manager for Wireless Solutions, Manager of International Financing and Business Development, Manager of Administration and Strategic Planning for Raytheon’s Research Division, and Manager of Program Development and Operations for Technical Services. Johnson received his B.A. from Colgate University, Hamilton, NY and his M.B.A. from Boston College’s Carroll School, Boston, MA. He was an Adjunct Professor of Management at Boston University from 1977 to 1999. Johnson currently manages a worldwide organization of Program Managers and administrative staff working across 94 universities worldwide. Johnson serves as a board member of: • Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology (ABIWT) • MentorNet Advisory Board (MN) • Industrial Advisory Board, the International Conference on Engineering Education (ICEE) • Wentworth Institute of Technology (WIT) • Alliance for Science and Technology Research for America (ASTRA) His memberships include: • The Glion Colloquium • Olin College’s President’s Council-Chair • Government-University-Industrial Research Roundtable (GUIRR) • Association of American Colleges and Universities National Leadership Council (AACU) • Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology Industrial Advisory Council (ABET) • Bay Area Science and Innovation Consortium (BASIC) • University-Industry Demonstration Partnership (UIDP) Founding Sponsor
Bruce M. Kramer, Ph.D.	Bruce M. Kramer was born in New York City on July 23, 1949. He is a graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (S.B., S.M. 1972, Ph.D. 1979) and is a registered professional engineer in the District of Columbia. Dr. Kramer co-founded and was Director of Engineering of Zoom Technologies, Inc. of Boston, Massachusetts, a NASDAQ company and leading producer of modems and wireless networking products marketed under the Zoom, Hayes, Practical Peripherals, and Global Village brands. He is the holder of three U.S. patents and has consulted to and conducted research projects on behalf of major industrial companies including General Electric, United Technologies, Boeing, Lockheed and Cincinnati Milacron. He served on the faculty of Mechanical Engineering at MIT from 1979 to 1985 and of George Washington University from 1985 to 1995. Since 1991, he has been at the National Science Foundation, as Program Director for Materials Processing and Manufacturing, Director of the Division of Design, Manufacture and Industrial Innovation, and Director of the Division of Engineering Education and Centers. He is currently Senior Advisor for Engineering in the Division of Engineering Education and Centers. Dr. Kramer studied Japanese manufacturing industries as a visiting researcher in the Department of Mechanical Engineering for Production at the University of Tokyo in 1989. During the 1998-99 academic year, he taught product development and manufacturing at the University of California, Berkeley as a visiting scholar in the Department of Mechanical Engineering. Professor Kramer was conferred the rank of Fellow of the School of Engineering at the University of Tokyo in 2007. He has also been awarded the F.W. Taylor Medal of the International Institution for Production Engineering Research, the Blackall Award of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers and the R.F. Bunshah Medal of the International Conference on Metallurgical Coatings, all in recognition of outstanding contributions to the manufacturing research literature. In 1996, he received the Distinguished Service Award, the highest honorary award granted by the National Science Foundation. He is a fellow of the Society of Manufacturing Engineers.
Lesa Mitchell	Lesa Mitchell is a vice president with the Kauffman Foundation. She is responsible for leading the Foundation’s initiatives to advance innovations. Mitchell joined the Foundation in 2003. She has been responsible for the Foundation’s frontier work in understanding the policy levers that influence the advancement of innovation from universities into the commercial market. Under Mitchell’s leadership, the Foundation is identifying critical research opportunities, defining and codifying alternative commercialization pathways, and identifying new models to foster innovation. Mitchell was instrumental in the founding of the Kauffman Innovation Network and the iBridge Network, a founding sponsor of the National Academy-based University–Industry Partnership, and leader in the replication of innovator-based mentor programs at universities across the country. In addition, Mitchell serves on the boards of Gazelle Growth in Denmark and the University of Kansas Research Institute. Prior to joining Kauffman, Mitchell’s professional background included consulting for global pharmaceutical clients such as Takeda, Eli Lilly and Clinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium. She spent twenty years of her career in global executive roles at Aventis, Quintiles, and Marion Laboratories.
Roberto D. Peccei, Ph.D.	Roberto D. Peccei is Vice Chancellor for Research at UCLA, a position he has held since October, 2000. He is a particle theorist whose principal interests lie in the area of electroweak interactions and in the interface between particle physics and cosmology. Peccei was born in Italy, completed his secondary school in Argentina, and came to the United States in 1958 to pursue his university studies in physics. He obtained a B.S. from MIT in 1962, and M.S. from NYU in 1964 and a Ph.D. from MIT in 1969. After a brief period of postdoctoral work at the University of Washington, he joined the faculty of Stanford University in 1971. In 1978, he returned to Europe as a staff member of the Max Planck Institute in Munich, Germany. He joined the Deutsches Elektron Synchrotron (DESY) Laboratory in Hamburg, Germany, as the Head of the Theoretical Group in 1984. He returned to the United States in 1989, joining the faculty of the Department of Physics at UCLA. Soon thereafter, he became Chair of the Department, a position he held until becoming Dean of the Division of Physical Sciences of the College of Letters and Sciences in November, 1993. Peccei was the Schroedinger Professor at the University of Vienna in 1983, the Boris Jacobsohn Lecturer at the University of Washington in 1986, the Phi Beta Kappa Lecturer at UCLA and the Emilio Segre Professor at the University of Tel Aviv in 1992, and delivered the first Abdus Salam Memorial Lecture in Pakistan in 1997. He has served on numerous advisory boards both in Europe and the United States in the last 25 years. He is a member of the Club of Rome and is the President of the Fondazione Aurelio Peccei. He presently serves on the Board of the California Biomedical Association, is the Chair of the governing Board of the California NanoSystems Institute and is a member of the Visiting Committee for the Department of Physics at MIT. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society, the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the Institute of Physics in the United Kingdom.
David K. Rosen, D.V.M.	Dr. David K. Rosen is currently Head of Development and Commercial Strategic Alliances for Pfizer Global Research and Development. In his role, Dr. Rosen is responsible for leading a team of business development professionals focused on the in licensing and acquisition of biomarkers, diagnostics and delivery systems that will enable or complement the Pfizer pharmaceutical portfolio across 11 therapeutic areas in both pharmaceutical development and commercial sales. Dr. Rosen is also responsible for divesture of Pfizer assets in Nagoya, Japan and the creation of a new start-up pharmaceutical biotechnology company in Japan. Dr. Rosen is a 1980 graduate of the University of Wisconsin, Madison (Bacteriology) and a 1984 graduate of Iowa State University, College of Veterinary Medicine. After 10 years as an owner of a private veterinary practice, Dr. Rosen joined the pharmaceutical industry, first at SmithKline Beecham and then Pfizer. In 1996, Dr. Rosen left Pfizer to join a start up biotechnology company in Fort Collins, Colorado, before returning to Pharmacia and UpJohn Company in 1999. During his career in the biotechnology and the pharmaceutical industry, Dr. Rosen has worked in Licensing and Acquisition and also directed project teams responsible for the development of diagnostics, pharmaceuticals and vaccines.
Marianne Rinaldo Woods, Ph.D.	Marianne Rinaldo Woods, Ph.D., J.D., is the Senior Associate Vice President for Research at the University of Texas at San Antonio and faculty in the College of Public Policy. In her current position she oversees all aspects of the research administration. Formerly Associate Vice President of Research at The University of Alabama, Dr. Woods had oversight of all aspects of research administration, including IRB, IACUC, COI, MIS compliance, pre-award, post-award and accounting research administration, technology transfer, and the Bama Technology Incubator. She is also responsible for development and implementation of university-wide policies and procedures ranging from export controls to intellectual property. In 2006, Dr. Woods and her team of licensing professionals at The University of Alabama received the Licensing Executive Society’s National Deal of Distinction Award. Dr. Woods is a Board Member on the Council on Governmental Relations (COGR) and serves as a member of the COGR Contract and Intellectual Property Committee. She is also a member of the Federal Demonstration Partnership and past board member of the Biotechnology Association of Alabama; the Texas Society for Biomedical Research; Past President of the Texas Technology Transfer Association (T3A); and, the Alabama State EPSCoR Steering Committee. Dr. Woods is a founding member of the University of Texas System Technology Transfer Management Council; and, the Texas Research Administration Management Council (TRAM). Dr. Woods has also served on the National Council of University Research Administrator’s (NCURA) Board of Directors and NCURA’s National Professional Development Committee and National Membership Committee. She is a past recipient of the NCURA’s National Distinguished Service Award and NCURA’s Region V, Distinguished Service Award. She is past co-editor of the NCURA Newsletter, and the former lead faculty on the NCURA Export Controls Seminar Series and the NCURA Fundamentals Program. Dr. Woods has also served as a keynote speaker, moderator, panelist and workshop faculty at numerous international, national, and regional professional meetings.
Charles F. Zukoski, Ph.D.	Charles F. Zukoski is the Vice Chancellor for Research at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign.  As Vice Chancellor he has focused on enhancing the impact of the scholarship and research of faculty members across the University through the development of multidisciplinary efforts and increasing university-industry ties.  Dr. Zukoski received his undergraduate degree in Physics from Reed College in 1977 and his Ph.D. from Princeton University in Chemical Engineering in 1985.  He is recognized as an expert in suspension mechanics and nanoparticle synthesis. Zukoski is the William H. and Janet G. Lycan Professor in the School of Chemical Sciences and was head of the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering from 1995-2002. Zukoski has won numerous awards for the study of suspensions and is a member of the National Academy of Engineering.

UIDP Staff

Anthony M. Boccanfuso, Ph.D. UIDP Executive Director

Anthony M. Boccanfuso was selected to serve as the inaugural Executive Director for the University Industry Demonstration Partnership. He holds a Ph.D. in Inorganic Chemistry from the University of South Carolina and earned his B.S. in Political Science and Chemistry from Furman University. Dr. Boccanfuso began his professional career as a Science Policy Fellow at the American Chemical Society where he worked within the society's government relations and science policy division. Before taking on this new position, Dr. Boccanfuso was Director for Research and Economic Development at the University of South Carolina and currently retains the position of Senior Director for Strategic Alliances within the College of Engineering and Computing. Dr. Boccanfuso has had a distinguished career in the research management and science policy arenas and has held a variety of positions at the National Science Foundation, the National Institutes of Health and PricewaterhouseCoopers as well as several universities. He currently serves on several boards including the National Hydrogen Association, South Carolina BIO and the Hydrogen Education Foundation for which he is the current chair.

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