Moline Prak Pandiyan Email & Phone Number

Chapel Hill, Nc, Us

Moline's work spans across the medical ecosystem. She positions commercial clients to better understand the unmet medical needs that inform their product and technology development strategy and investment decisions. When collaborating with university clients and academia, she helps them understand the commercialization and market potential of their biomedical innovations and works with technology transfer offices to prioritize intellectual property protection and support partnership development efforts. For government programs and agencies that include the NIH, NIST, DOD, and NASA, she supports translational science initiatives to ensure that federal, state, or regional funding programs and initiatives lead to impact and improved health outcomes.

Advises clients on promising investment, innovation, and partnership opportunities to support product development planning, commercialization, and other strategic initiatives. Recommendations are formed based on desired outcomes, existing and future capabilities, market drivers, and end user insights.

Managed a portfolio of RTI inventions to identify and optimize our research and innovations to broaden the institute’s research impact. Developed and implemented commercialization strategies by identifying, evaluating, and promoting inventions with greatest potential. Built strategic commercialization, licensing, and development partnerships to advance technologies to a commercializable state. Provided recommendations to executive leadership team, resulting in licenses and a new line of business for the institute.

Developed technology landscapes that summarize market trends, technology assets, and end user perspectives to inform technology developers and implementors of existing options and future needs. Interviewed key stakeholders to inform strategy and recommendations for clients.

On-site technology transfer contractor for NASA Langley Research Center responsible for leveraging and transfering NASA research into the commercial marketplace. Reviewed invention disclosures to assess technologies with greatest market potential. Provided recommendations on intellectual property protection. Cultivated strong relationships with inventors and industry to identify and establish +5 commercial licenses and partnerships.

Investigated areas of improving operational efficiency and effectiveness. Researched and analyzed critical performance metrics. Prepared documentation and presentations for senior leadership.

Conducted commercial assessments on Duke University's biomedical innovations. Identified potential acquirers and spin-off opportunities through market research analysis.

Developed financial, operational, and commercialization strategies for a biomedical start-up. Identified target market by performing due diligence on potential customers, partners, and competition. Investigated and evaluated domestic and international regulatory concerns for technology

Investigated entrepreneurial motivations in the United States and identified trends. Managed a team of 30+ research assistants by advising, providing project updates, completing performance analyses, and managing budget.

Assisted with the design and implementation of new or modified orthopaedic product lines. Performed patent studies, technical analyses, customer complaints review, and device testing

Designed and implemented an independent meta-analysis study on lower limb prosthetics in developing, low-resource countries. Performed electromagnetic data analysis on the effect of chronic stroke on ankle joint muscle activity.

Researched the effects of atomic oxygen chemical interactions via mathematical and computational analyses.

Master'S, Engineering Management (Concentration: Commercialization)

B.S., Biomedical Engineering

Education record