Mihaela Bojin is a Senior Associate Director at the University of Iowa Research Foundation (UIRF). She has extensive expertise in intellectual capital management (business and intellectual property assessment, licensing, and partnerships) in a variety of areas, such as pharmaceuticals, drug delivery, medical devices, and software.
Mihaela is a Certified Licensing Professional (CLP) and a registered patent agent with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. She has been included for several years in the IAM Strategy 300, an elite global group of IP strategists.
Prior to joining UIRF, Mihaela was a patent agent at a New York City Intellectual Property Practice Group, an assistant professor on tenure track at the City University of New York, and a postdoctoral scholar at the University of California, Davis, and at New York University. Mihaela holds a PhD in Theoretical Chemistry from Cornell University, and a BSc in Chemistry from University of Bucharest, Romania.
Mihaela is a Director on the LES USA & Canada Board, and Co-Chair of LES Education. She has taught a variety of courses ranging from licensing, negotiations, IP & commercialization, general chemistry, chemistry and the arts, and forensic chemistry.