Abigail Barrow will stand down as interim executive director of University of Massachusetts's office of technology commercialization on September 14 after three and a half years.

Abigail Barrow (pictured) is to leave her role as interim executive director of University of Massachusetts’ (UMass’) office of technology commercialization and ventures (OTCV) on September 14, Boston Business Journal has reported. The news publication cited an internal OTCV email bulletin, but the office did not officially comment. UMass has appointed a strategic adviser to feed into a transition plan over 10 months related to economic development, according to the bulletin. Barrow started with the UMass President’s office in 2004 as founding director of Massachusetts Technology Transfer Center (MTTC), a state-wide tech transfer program operated from OTCV, before becoming interim executive director three and a half years ago. Her current position has involved facilitating the university’s tech transfer schemes, the formation of spinouts and other entrepreneurship-related activities. Barrow has also remained responsible for managing MTTC and the delivery of its programs. Prior to joining Massachusetts, Barrow worked at University of California, San Diego (UCSD) as the managing director of the William J. von Liebig Center, a commercialisation hub for research emerging out of UCSD’s Jacobs School of Engineering. She also held a range of other positions from 1990 until 2001 at UCSD’s Connect, a knowledge transfer program formed to support commercialisation from all San Diego research institutions. – Image courtesy of LinkedIn

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