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...tech transfer field, Harvard’s hopes rest on the shoulders of Senior Associate Provost Isaac T. Kohlberg, who arrived here in 2005. Before that, Kohlberg led tech transfer efforts at Tel Aviv University and at New York University School of Medicine. In that last post, he commanded a salary of nearly $1.3 million, making him the highest-paid administrator in academia, according to the Chronicle of Higher Education...
...Harvard, Kohlberg united the traditionally detached Cambridge and Longwood tech transfer offices into one operation, the Office of Technology Development (OTD). “He clearly changed it from a fiefdom sort of scenario into more of a university-wide phenomenon,” says George M. Church, a professor of genetics at the Medical School...
...Kohlberg then established a $1.25 million fund to finance early-stage discoveries in the life sciences that require further development before they are attractive to corporate sponsors. Recipients will be announced this month...
...hard to see where that would generate any built-in conflict of interests, as one of our interests is to bring these discoveries to the public.” Whitesides was traveling out of the country and could not be reached for comment yesterday. Isaac T. Kohlberg, whom the University appointed in November 2004 to the position of associate provost and chief technology development officer in order to enhance tech transfer efforts, was also unavailable for comment when contacted yesterday. —Staff writer Aditi Balakrishna can be reached at balakris@fas.harvard.edu...
Have Harvard’s strict conflict-of-interest rules created an obstacle on this path? Kohlberg says no. “If you look at our policies, they are not very different than conflict-of-interest policies at other leading research universities,” says Kohlberg. “I really didn’t see any effect or any negative impact...