As assistant vice chancellor of technology transfer and intellectual property development, Alan Bentley has spent the past six months overseeing expansion of Vanderbilt University’s push to commercialize research and turn discoveries into products.
It’s an area that saw a decline in startup activity in recent years as the university reassessed how it funds new drugs, technologies and other innovations developed in-house — and gets them to market.
Bentley, 40, arrived at Vanderbilt from the technology commercialization arm of the Cleveland Clinic in Ohio, where he was director of commercialization. In Cleveland, he focused on cardiovascular medical devices developed by the clinic’s doctors.
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