The USPTO will celebrate World IP Day 2018, using this year’s theme of “Powering Change: Women in Innovation and Creativity” on Thursday, April 26, 2018 from 4:00 – 6:30 PM at 2237 Rayburn House Office Building. The focus of the program will be how women come up with game-changing and life-enhancing innovation that transforms and improves our lives while empowering other woman to do the same. The program will celebrate the brilliance, ingenuity, drive and courage of the women driving change and shaping our world. Reception to follow the event.
USPTO Director Andrei Iancu, Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property, will provide opening remarks followed by this panel of inspirational women inventors and innovators.
View the agenda for the full event program.
Registration:
Registration is free and the event is open to the public. Please go here to register.
Panelists
Dr. Cherry Murray
Benjamin Peirce Professor of Technology and Public Policy at, and former dean of, Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Science
Biography
Cherry Murray served as the Director of the United States Department of Energy’s Office of Science, overseeing the areas of advanced scientific computing, basic energy sciences, biological and environmental sciences, fusion energy sciences, high energy physics, and nuclear physics, and the management of 10 national laboratories. She was dean of Harvard University’s School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and Principal Associate Director for Science and Technology at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Prior to that, Dr. Murray held a number of positions, retiring as Senior Vice President of Physical and Wireless Research, at Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies, formerly AT&T Bell Laboratories and previously Bell Telephone Laboratories, Inc.
She earned both B.S. and Ph.D. degrees in physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She was awarded the George E. Pake Prize of the American Physical Society and the National Medal of Technology and Innovation.
Dr. Irina Buhimschi
Director, Center for Perinatal Research at The Research Institute, Nationwide Children’s Hospital
Biography
Dr. Buhimschi's research spans the broad area of understanding the molecular and pathophysiologic mechanisms of preterm labor and preeclampsia that together account for the large majority of preterm births, stillbirths, and neonatal deaths. The practical application of her research has led to the Congo Red Dot test, a device that is under development as an aid for diagnosis of preeclampsia in the United States and worldwide. The Congo Red Dot test was one of the 2016 USPTO Patents for Humanity award winners.
Dr. Irina Buhimschi received her M.D. degree from the Carol Davila University of Medicine and Pharmacy in Bucharest Romania and postgraduate and postdoctoral training at The University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, Texas and University of Maryland School of Medicine in Baltimore, Maryland.
Danya Sherman
Founder of KnoNap, LLC, 2018 Toyota Mother of Invention
Biography
Prior to KnoNap, Sherman worked on Capitol Hill and in NGOs addressing women’s issues and human rights. Sherman has been awarded Washington Life's 2017 Tech 25 Innovators and Disruptors, Toyota's 2018 Mother of Invention, and Entrepreneur's Organization Global Student Entrepreneur Awards Finalist. She is a student at George Washington University.
Accessibility
This event is accessible to individuals with disabilities. To inquire about or request accommodations, please contact Susan.Hoffman2@uspto.gov.
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