COWILCO Patents & Trademarks provides advice and support to companies that bring innovative products & services to the market. The provided services are related to IP, R&D and business development:• Scouting & identifying innovative valorization opportunities• Initiating, structuring, managing and supporting product development projects• Identifying & engaging partnerships, e.g. manufacturers, investors, key opinion leaders• Protecting & managing intellectual propertyMore specifically, these comprise for example:• Intellectual Property: e.g. patent applications; freedom to operate analysis; novelty searches; validity searches; and strategy in general• Business Plan: e.g. unmet needs assessment; market analysis; value proposition; and strategy in general• Partnerships: e.g. identify business partners and key opinion leaders; engage partnerships; and provide interdisciplinary communication between stakeholders• Product Development: e.g. R&D; product design; materials, technology and supplier assessments; and technical feasibility assessment• Product Performance: e.g. R&D (mechanical, in silico, in vitro and in vivo) and literature rationales• Project Management: e.g. defining goals, timelines and resource requirements• Document and Data Review: e.g. reviewing plans, data and reports

Responsibilities: Intellectual Property Specialist, Clinical Specialist, Program Manager.Description:Shaping startup company Fortimedix Surgical B.V. part of the Fortimedix group.Initiation, structuring, managing and execution of new product development projects (including product design and testing, regulatory affairs, supply chain, intellectual property) in the field of medical devices for endoscopy.

Responsibilities:• Initiation of projects, defining project goals, design of experiments, analysis of outcome and interpretation of results.• Managing daily operations of laboratory, laboratory technicians and students.• Shaping, structuring and managing pediatrics laboratory at Maastricht University.• Training and educating laboratory technicians and Master/PhD-students on molecular cell biology, laboratory techniques and scientific approach.• Presenting results and writing scientific publications.• IT-support pediatrics department Maastricht UniversityCourses:• Advanced Microscopy and Vital Imaging• Radiation Hygiene, radiation expert level 5b• Safe Microbiological PracticesAchievements:• Poster Presenter GRC Conference, Gradient Sensing & Directed Cell Migration (2009, TX, USA)• Poster Presenter GROW Science Day (2009, Maastricht, The Netherlands)• Supervision of 6 medical student graduation research projects• IT-support pediatrics departmentKeywords:surfactant, SP-A, collectin, TGF-ß, lung, alveolus, wound healing, epithelium, endothelium, cell biology, cell culture, 3D culture, organotypic culture, immunology, apoptosis, phagocytosis, biochemistry, chromatography, western blotting, ELISA, flow cytometry, confocal microscopy, fluorescence microscopy, vital imaging, image analysis, in vitro diagnostics, high throughput screening