From Lab to Market, Bench to Bedside: Commercializing the Results of Academic Research and the Impact of Current Funding Challenges

What do cell phone cameras, Gatorade, 3D printers, blood thinners, and Google have in common? They all originated in academic research. How did these innovations get from university labs to our everyday lives? How is today’s political and economic climate—marked by the current administration’s heightened scrutiny of federal university research funding—affecting the pipeline from lab to market? 

Kim Rosenfield is Director of Technology Transfer Office in the Dartmouth Office of Entrepreneurship and Technology Transfer, where she leads the team charged with managing and commercializing all intellectual property resulting from research at the College and Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center. Their mission is to transfer research out of the lab and into the world, from innovation to impact. Join us to hear about groundbreaking discoveries that originated in our backyard and get a behind-the-scenes look at the skunkworks that turn research into innovations that impact all of us. 

Kim Rosenfield joined the Dartmouth Office of Entrepreneurship and Technology Transfer in 2017, and in 2020 she became Director of Technology Transfer for Dartmouth and D-H. She has over 35 years of business, legal, and entrepreneurial experience in academia, industry, and as a partner in major law firms. She helped found and manage several start-up companies and worked in-house as General Counsel in publicly-traded companies. Before joining Dartmouth, Kim worked in the Technology Licensing Office at MIT, at Partners Healthcare (now Mass General/Brigham), the SUNY Research Foundation, and the UAB Research Foundation in Birmingham, Alabama. Kim is passionate about helping researchers translate their ideas into innovations that impact society. She also avidly supports the arts and was founding Board Chair of Camille A. Brown & Dancers, an award-winning NYC dance company, and is active in promoting voting rights. Kim graduated from Yale and the University of Virginia Law School.