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Who to contact in the Commercialisation Team

Do you have an idea, activity, discovery or design that could be used by external organisations, or the public, as a commercial process, a service, a tool, or a product? The Commercialisation Team can help you. Please explain your idea by completing an Invention disclosure form (IDF) (MS Word , 55kb) and sending it to commercialisation-team@york.ac.uk

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James Kitson
Head of Commercialisation
james.kitson@york.ac.uk
01904 326564
  • Supporting academics with commercial licencing deals
  • Commercial service provision and spin out formation
 James Kitson 

Dr Geoff Whiteley
Business Development Manager
- Medical Sciences
geoff.whiteley@york.ac.uk
01904 321129

 
  • Intellectual property evaluation and development/exploitation planning, with specialist expertise in biological sciences
  • Securing translational and commercial development funding
  ‌Geoff Whiteley

Dr Clare Green
Grow MedTech Project Manager
clare.green@york.ac.uk
01904 328965

 
  • Identifying Medical Technologies emerging from the Grow MedTech Consortium
  • Matching opportunities with academic capability, company partners and other collaborators
  • Providing support and management to de-risk these technologies ready for investment 
  

Alice Todd
Administrator
Commercialisation Team
Alice.todd@york.ac.uk 
  • Providing administrative support for  commercialisation, contracts and patent activity