Mary Phillips, Ph.D. Email & Phone Number

Portland, Oregon, United States

Corvallis, Oregon, United States

Bridging the mindset and entrepreneurial knowledge gap, my mission is to create an innovation friendly environment that makes it easier for female founders and aspiring female founders to turn science, technology, engineering, mathematics and medical (STEMM) ideas and research into impactful businesses.

Portland, Oregon Metropolitan Area

Thaena is a female founded company on a mission to research, develop and manufacture products and services that restore a balanced, perturbation resistant, equilibrium to gut microbial ecosystems responsible for maintaining human health and wellbeing. In the year I worked with Thaena, the founders confidently raised over $1M in funding to support this.

Corvallis, Oregon

Portal Theatre began as an experiment in creative entrepreneurship asking the question "is there a way for young artists and recently graduated theatre students to be independent and create their own art, their own theatre, and perform to their unique strengths rather than pretzeling themselves into a defined role?". And the experiment worked. Our first.

Corvallis, Oregon

Qualtura Biotech focussed on the research and development of functional microbiome standards useful for the microbiome research community. In collaboration with two academic research partners, Professors Steve Giovannoni and Tom Sharpton, Qualtura's approach leveraged the capabilities of high throughput culturomics to isolate and characterize stable.

Corvallis, Oregon Area

Lead coordinator for the identification of large scale research opportunities, direct and facilitate the initiation and preparation of complex interdisciplinary contract and grant proposals to externalsponsors. Initiate and nurture partnerships, networks, and alliances between and amongfaculty at OSU, other institutions, industry, and funding agencies to.

Collaborating with industry partners and start-up companies to successfully commercialize OSU innovations. Responsibilities included: Managing, supervising and training IP and Licensing team to effectively identify, evaluate, protect, market and license innovations; Providing patent strategy perspective on the drafting of patent applications and patent.

The most successful incubator in the state outside of the Portland metropolitan area, the BEC has a 20 year history of job creation through business counseling, training, support and assistance to over 130 companies creating over 270 jobs. Its 76% graduation rate approaches that of the 80% metric established by the National Business Incubator Association..

Portland, Oregon Area

Managed a diverse intellectual property portfolio of more than 200 technologies. Evaluated the patentability of disclosures and managed any resulting patent prosecution. Filed in-house patent applications as needed and formulated patent portfolio strategies with inventors. Performed market analyses to determine the commercial value of an invention..

Millersville, PA

Assisted in the fundraising efforts of the University by identifying significant donors. Developed donor portfolios and information management systems to provide timely and accurate research data and custom tailored reports for the division staff and the president.

Authored publications in refereed scholarly journals, conference proceedings, and government reports. Developed expertise in the techniques and theories of fluorescence, excited triplet-state and Raman laser spectroscopies, nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy and X-ray crystallography. Gained experience in the techniques of site-directed mutagenesis.

Audit company records. Draft balance sheets and profit and loss statements for clients.

Ph.D., Physical Chemistry

Graduate work on the Photophysics of Sulphonated Aluminium Phthalocyanines as Photosensitisers for Photodynamic Therapy

B.Sc., Chemistry

B.S. (Hons.) in Physical, Organic & Inorganic Chemistry Member of the University of Durham Rowing Club