Denise Lew

As a Senior Licensing Officer in the UCSD Technology Transfer Office (TTO), Dr. Denise Lew has transitioned the intellectual property rights of numerous inventions from the laboratories of UCSD scientists into the commercial sector.  Since 2002, she has led the university side of commercial licensing negotiations with companies ranging from start-ups to large pharma, and successfully concluded licenses for the university’s IP rights.  Within TTO, she is responsible for a patent portfolio of inventions in the life sciences area, interacting extensively with faculty inventors, patent attorneys, entrepreneurs, business development executives and investors of early-stage technologies. 

Prior to her role at UCSD, Denise was a researcher at several San Diego biotech companies.  She obtained her Ph.D. in Biochemistry from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, and her postdoctoral training from the Salk Institute in La Jolla, CA.