Valerie Carricaburu

Valerie Carricaburu is a Technology Manager at UW TechTransfer, where she manages a portfolio of technologies in Life Sciences. Valerie completed her PhD in Neurosciences in Bordeaux, France, and then studied the role of a recently discovered signal transduction pathway at the Boston Biomedical Research Institute, MA. Her job at UW TechTransfer is to protect and manage intellectual property arising from UW research, to license intellectual property rights to industry and to help catalyze the creation of new companies based on UW technologies. Valerie is the Program Committee co-chair for Life Science Innovation Northwest 2010, is a member of WBBA events program committee, and is on the Board of Directors of the French-American Chamber of Commerce (Pacific Northwest Chapter).