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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