Associate Vice President for Innovation & Commercialization

Associate Vice President for Innovation & Commercialization

The associate vice president for Innovation and Commercialization serves as the university’s chief innovation and commercialization officer overseeing innovation and commercialization efforts across all of IU, including IU Bloomington, IU Indianapolis, IU School of Medicine, and the five regional campuses. This position enhances strategic research alliances with private-sector and public-sector partners looking to innovate and enhance knowledge translation that leads to commercialization of IU faculty discoveries and inventions. 

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Search Committee

  • Chair: Jillian Turner, IU LAB, Senior Advisor, Vice President of Strategy and Operations, IU Research
  • Mangi Agarwal, Director of Integrated Nanosystems Development Institute (INDI), Interim Chair and Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Informatics, IU Indianapolis
  • Rohan Dharmakumar, Executive Director, Medical Imaging Institute; Professor of Radiology & Imaging Sciences, IU School of Medicine
  • Kristin Eilenberg, Assistant Vice Chancellor for Research Strategy, IU Research, IU Indianapolis
  • Amar Flood, Department of Chemistry, IU Bloomington
  • Bethan Roberts, Assistant Vice President for Research Operations, IU Research
  • Lakshmi Sastry-Dent, Associate Director, Technology Development and Training & Outreach, Innovation and Commercialization
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