TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER

Dr. Joseph Jankowski is the Associate Vice President for Technology Transfer, Translational and Interdisciplinary Research. In this capacity, Dr. Jankowski leads the University’s biomedical commercialization efforts that stem from the greater than $300 million of annual biomedical research activity taking place at the School of Medicine, University Hospitals Case Medical Center and the School’s other affiliate institutions. Dr. Jankowski is very dedicated to CWRU’s translational efforts and holds leadership roles on the Coulter-Case Translation and Innovation Partnership, the Ohio BRCP Center: Targeted Nanoparticles for Imaging and Therapeutics and the NorTech Tech Leaders Committee.

In addition to Dr. Jankowski’s primary commercialization and translational activities, he is proud to represent CWRU through his participation in the CWRU Conflict of Interest Committee, the Ohio Technology Transfer Officers’ Council, and the UHCMC Research Committee. Dr. Jankowski also serves the University through his active board representation in several CWRU spinoff companies, including Arteriocyte, Copernicus Therapeutics, Great Lakes Pharmaceuticals and Interventional Imaging, Inc.

In 2006, Dr. Jankowski officially joined the faculty of the University and provides course offerings in intellectual property commercialization and entrepreneurship in both the Schools of Engineering and Medicine, with an adjunct professorship in the Department of Macromolecular Engineering.

Previously, Dr. Jankowski had been a commercialization officer in the Office of Innovations at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation (CCF). In that position, Dr. Jankowski helped to establish multinational sponsored research collaborations and to commercialize an array of intellectual property developed by CCF researchers. Prior to that, Dr. Jankowski held the position of technology analyst in the Environmental Technology Commercialization Center at the Battelle Memorial Institute and, before that, he was a research assistant with the SUNY Research Foundation.

Dr. Jankowski holds a Ph.D. in chemistry from the State University of New York's College of Environmental Sciences, an M.B.A. from Case's Weatherhead School of Management, and a dual B.S. in chemical and environmental engineering technologies from the University of Dayton.