Ofra Weinberger

Ofra Weinberger, PhD, is Director of Commercialization and Licensing at Columbia Technology Ventures (CTV), and Associate VP for IP and Technology Transfer at Columbia University. Ofra leads the licensing and startup formation team at Columbia, overseeing the commercialization of technologies in a portfolio comprising both life sciences and physical sciences opportunities and has extensive experience negotiating licenses, research collaborations and strategic alliances, and spinning out companies to commercialize university technologies. She oversees the management of over 400 inventions, 200 patents, approximately 100 licenses to industry, and the formation of approximately 25 new startups per year. Ofra received a PhD in immunology from Harvard University.

CTV, the technology transfer office of Columbia University, has been involved with launching over 180 companies based on Columbia’s technologies to date, and has returned over $2B in revenue to Columbia, making it one of the most successful university tech transfer programs in the world.