Seminar Presentation

Please join us for seminar Monday October 20th. Dr. Beth Fischer from the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF) will give a presentation entitled “I’ve Developed Cool Science, Now What?” 

Seminar will be in room 121, Babcock Hall at the regular time (12:05-12:55).

Dr. Fischer’s bio: 

Dr. Fischer graduated with a bachelor’s degree in Chemistry from Ripon College, and she obtained her PhD in Biochemistry at UW-Madison. Her PhD research focused on understanding the metabolism of vitamin A.

Dr. Fischer began her career at a local biotechnology company licensing technology into the company for product development. After several acquisitions, she worked as a corporate development manager at Invitrogen licensing in technologies to support the research tool business unit in Madison.

Dr. Fischer has been at WARF for 20 years discussing scientific research with faculty, staff, and students across all areas of life science looking for aspects of the research that could be of interest to commercial partners. If WARF decides to file patents on inventions arising from the research, Dr. Fischer manages the process of filing an securing patents from patent offices around the world.