Postgraduate Intern
Baylor College of Medicine
Houston, TX
Job posting number: #7264297 (Ref:20021-en_US)
Posted: July 19, 2024
Job Description
Summary
BCM Ventures (BVM) is responsible for commercializing technologies and discoveries from faculty research at BCM and its partner institutions. The commercialization process includes evaluating technologies for commercial potential, patenting promising intellectual properties, and licensing technologies to industry for further development into products and therapies to benefit the public.
Fellows will work directly with and under the guidance of BCMV licensing managers to help us accomplish our goal of providing timely and thorough technology evaluations for each new invention disclosure.
Job Purpose
Provides postgraduates a temporary professional learning experience in which participants gain practical work experience related to a graduate’s field of study.
Must be a part of a formal program to train recent graduates in their specialized profession.
Job Duties
- Develops specific marketing summaries describing technologies and related intellectual property while identifying companies that are active within a particular market where the BCM technologies are likely to create value.
- Discovers strategic information on each company, market-specific intellectual property landscapes, and, to the extent possible, appropriate points of contact for business development.
- Performs technological and market feasibility assessments for nascent BCM technologies.
- Assists with intellectual property novelty and freedom-to-operate searches and other assorted intellectual property related tasks relevant to disclosed technologies.
Minimum Qualifications
- Completion of postsecondary applicable degree/training program.
Baylor College of Medicine is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action/Equal Access Employer.
Baylor College of Medicine fosters diversity among its students, trainees, faculty and staff as a prerequisite to accomplishing our institutional mission, and setting standards for excellence in training healthcare providers and biomedical scientists, promoting scientific innovation, and providing patient-centered care. - Diversity, respect, and inclusiveness create an environment that is conducive to academic excellence, and strengthens our institution by increasing talent, encouraging creativity, and ensuring a broader perspective. - Diversity helps position Baylor to reduce disparities in health and healthcare access and to better address the needs of the community we serve. - Baylor is committed to recruiting and retaining outstanding students, trainees, faculty and staff from diverse backgrounds by providing a welcoming, supportive learning environment for all members of the Baylor community.
