Michael Perham, Ph.D. Email & Phone Number

Washington, Dc, Us

Ashburn, Va

Lead Janelia's innovation management/technology transfer and external relations with private and public partners and the local community. At Janelia, we pursue a high-impact hybrid of Open Science and patenting, licensing, start-ups, and corporate partnerships and collaborations to maximize dissemination of technology, software, and data. I head the department of Innovation Management, oversee the Library and incorporate it into dissemination activities, and manage external relations with various groups from private business to local schools.

Ashburn, Va

Lead innovation management and technology transfer in service of the Open Science initiatives. Our goal at Janelia is wide dissemination of new technologies through open sharing and commercialization, which involves spectrum of methods, from supporting open source licensing to strong IP protection.

Washington Dc-Baltimore Area

Richmond, Virginia Area

Richmond, Virginia Area

Patent, trade secret, and trademark portfolio management; IP strategy, landscaping, competitive intelligence, freedom-to-operate analyses; invention evaluation, patent drafting and prosecution; management of outside counsel; in-licensing and acquisitions; IP valuation; litigation management; market intelligence

Charlottesville, Virginia Area

Patent portfolio management, contract drafting and negotiation including licenses, supply agreements, OEM agreements and CDAs, competitive intelligence, freedom-to-operate analysis, patent drafting and prosecution and grant writing. The ZyGEM products include a rapid DNA analysis device using microfluidics, optics and reagents for extraction, amplification and separations.

Charlottesville, Virginia Area

Patent licensing, portfolio management, alliance management, marketing, faculty service, disclosure evaluation and management of advisory panel.

Galveston, Texas

Patent licensing, portfolio management, faculty service, disclosure evaluation and marketing.

Houston, Texas Area

Research and coursework in physical biochemistry. Thesis research on protein dynamics using spectroscopy, wet lab biotechnology (protein engineering, expression and purification, labeling), and computational simulation collaborations.

Greensboro/Winston-Salem, North Carolina Area

Research and development on decorative wood coatings: polymers, formulation, and industrial application.

Phd, Physical Chemistry

Activities and Societies: NIH Biotechnology Predoctoral Training Program Fellow, Houston Area Molecular Biophysics Training Program.

Bs/Ba, Chemistry/Math

Activities and Societies: Phi Beta Kappa, Alpha Phi Omega, Intramural SoccerPolymer Chemistry and Scientific Programming