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Marie Kerbeshian
- Vice President of Technology Commercialization
Phone: (317) 274-5904
mkerbesh@iu.edu (mkerbesh@iu.edu) -
Marie Kerbeshian was named vice president of the Office of Technology Commercialization at the Indiana University Research & Technology Corporation in 2009, bringing more than a decade of experience in commercialization and technology transfer to the position.
Beginning in 1998, Marie held a series of appointments with the University of Virginia Patent Foundation, including licensing associate, senior negotiator, associate director, and interim executive director and CEO. Through these positions, she not only oversaw a staff of 16 employees responsible for evaluating, protecting, and licensing inventions, but also supervised the integration of operations between the foundation’s licensing, business, and patent departments.
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Marie graduated from Wellesley College with highest honors in biological sciences and earned a Ph.D. in zoology from the University of Texas at Austin. Prior to joining U.Va.’s Patent Foundation, she was a postdoctoral fellow at that university’s Center for Research in Reproduction in the Health Sciences Center and at the National Science Foundation’s Center for Biological Timing in the Department of Biology.
- She is a Certified Licensing Professional, as well as a registered patent agent with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
