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            Licensing Manager continued                                                      Legacy of invention at
            Maintaining a strong inventor-LM link is also important given the dynamics       Mass General Brigham
            of a Boston labor market that is at the epicenter of the global biotech
            industry. There is unremitting demand for life science deal makers. Locally
            based drug, device, diagnostic, digital and startup companies as well as
            investment funds are constantly searching for future employees. They
            typically offer much higher compensation than is available in the academic
            world. Providing a vibrant workplace where LMs and other team members
            are valued, engaged, and have an opportunity to grow is key to their
            retention and also recruitment of new staff.
            There is an assigned Licensing Manager (LM) for every chief code at Mass
            General Brigham. Complete lists of LM and other Innovation contacts
            can be accessed via Insight. As noted earlier, the LM is the primary
            point of commercialization contact. In addition, LMs provide support for        “The most important thing is to truly understand
            industry sponsored research LMs can also provide internal and external           the problems that are worth solving. That is a
            connections that can be of assistance, including potential internal
            collaborators, input on commercial attractiveness, markets and marketing         personal definition, which means you have to
            and potential partnerships.                                                      fall in love with a problem you are working on.
                                                                                             You can’t work on helping to take care of people
                                                                                             without getting emotional and passionate about
                                                                                             it. What I have found is that passion is what
                                                                                             carries you through. ”

                                                                                             Rox Anderson, MD
                                                                                             Director, Wellman Center for Photomedicine,
                                                                                             Massachusetts General Hospital; Professor of
            LM by Chief Code                                                                 Dermatology, Harvard Medical School
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