03/06/2010
As published in the March 5, 2010, Missouri Life Sciences Summit advertising supplement to the Kansas City Business Journal. Posted with permission. Stinson Morrison Hecker LLP Partner Lana Knedlik authored, "The Big Eight in University-Industry Partnerships," for the Missouri Life Sciences Summit. The article addresses modern university technology transfer, which began in the era of the Big Eight, with the bipartisan passage of the Bayh-Dole Act of 1980. For the first time, universities could own and license inventions made by researchers using federal funding. As the Big Eight evolved into the Big 12, so did the region’s view of technology transfer. Increasingly, the life sciences community is one in which universities and industry partners routinely enter into license agreements, sponsored research agreements, and joint development/research/collaboration agreements. Knedlik, a registered patent attorney, has represented both universities and industry partners in these agreements. Her training in chemical engineering, biology and pharmacy enables her to address various issues having a technological or scientific component. She received her bachelor's degree in chemical engineering from Kansas State University in 1993, her J.D. from the University of Kansas in 1996, and her bachelor's degree in biology and pharmaceutical sciences from UMKC in 2002 and 2007, respectively.
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