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Assistant Vice President
Division of Research and Economic Development
Research and Economic Development
| Katherine serves as the lead transaction attorney for the Division of Research offices
of Sponsored Programs, Technology Transfer, and Clinical Research. Katherine has
extensive experience in drafting and negotiating complex research and technology transfer
agreements such as research and development agreements, collaboration agreements,
clinical trial agreements, patent license agreements, and software license agreements,
as well as advising on legal matters and business terms and deal structures, both
within the U.S. and cross border. In addition, Katherine has gradually expanded her
advice and review to include sanctions, export controls, and the Department of Justice
data security program, encompassing restricted party screenings, review of research
projects and agreements for qualification as fundamental research, export control
self-classification of certain inventions, and inclusion as a "Covered Person" and
"Covered Data Transaction." Representative projects include serving on a multi-national collaboration agreement for geospatial oceanography research and data negotiating team, drafting and negotiating to completion research and development agreements with big pharma and device companies, negotiating multiple agreements for an investigator initiated clinical trial with funding and product provided by multiple organizations, all with consistent IP and publication clauses, and exclusive patent or technology license agreements for a monoclonal antibody as a cancer therapy which is on the market today, a cross border rapid tissue processor, and a new delivery method for a generic drug with a company in the EU. Katherine received a B.A. from Vanderbilt University and a J.D. and Ll.M. from the University of Miami School of Law. |