Assistant Director, Life Sciences
Benjy is an Assistant Director in the Office of Technology Transfer. He is responsible for managing, evaluating, protecting, marketing, and licensing life sciences-related intellectual property.
Benjy is supported by Chris Serafin.
Before joining the Office of Technology Transfer, Benjy was the Assistant Director of Licensing and Operations in the Office of Biotechnology and Business Development at Albert Einstein College of Medicine. He was at Einstein for nine years, focusing on managing strategic alliances with commercial partners, reviewing and assessing invention disclosures of new technologies, and negotiating a variety of technology transfer agreements. Prior to Einstein, he conducted his Ph.D. research at New York University and contributed to the understanding of how and why RNA transcripts within the yeast transcriptome degrade at different rates. The results of those studies are published in a variety of peer-reviewed journals. He holds a Ph.D. in Biology with a focus on genomics and systems biology from New York University, an M.A. in biotechnology from Columbia University, and a B.S. in biology from The Ohio State University.