Head of Business Development

The Business Development team is composed of 5 experts with the mission of transforming excellence in Business Development and Technology Transfer reporting directly to the innovation and Business Development Director.

In recent years VHIR has developed a new innovation and business development model that has enabled to accelerate the translation of research findings into clinical practice. The principles of this model are the foundation of VHIRs approach to innovation and technology transfer : collaboration entrepreneurship and impact. As a result in the last years 13 technologies have been licensed and 11 new spin-offs and start-ups have been created which have generated more than 60 jobs raised more than 62M investment and over 20M in competitive funds and have a market value of 450M.

The success of VHIRs innovation and business development model has positioned the organisation as a leader in biomedical research and a key contributor to the development of new t...