Our technology transfer company welcomes Dr Rick Watson

28 Sep 2017

Rick joins UMIP to engage with academic innovators and identify and assess our Intellectual Property for commercialisation

Rick is supporting the efforts of the team to engage with academic innovators, identify IP and assess it for protection and onward commercialisation by UMIP. 

Prior to working at UMIP Rick spent time working in several organisations at the Academic -Commercial interface including Manchester Business Growth Hub, as a consultant in the specialist Technology Transfer company Novomodo Ltd, and previous roles as Senior Innovation Consultant assisting company clients across the UK.

A former technology transfer manager at the University of Salford, Rick’s background is a mixture of different technologies including roles in Biotechnology community in Manchester and Scotland, time at The University of Strathclyde’s Forensic Science Unit, PhD research in Pharmaceutical Sciences at The University of Nottingham, and reading his first degree at Hull University in Chemistry with Analytical Chemistry and Toxicology.

“I am thrilled to join the UMIP team and to be working with such dedicated and talented professionals,” he said.

“I look forward to building on UMIP’s success and working with University colleagues to support their activities in IP commercialisation to generate revenue and research impact.”