University of Rochester has rehired Harl Tolbert, currently with Pennsylvania State University, as associate vice-president of URVentures.
Harl Tolbert, assistant vice-president for research and director of the Office of Technology Management at Pennsylvania State University (PSU), will move to University of Rochester next month.
Tolbert will take up the position of associate vice-president of URVentures, the university’s technology transfer office, on October 8.
The appointment marks a return to the office for Tolbert, who had been associate director of the University of Rochester Medical Center’s Office of Technology Transfer, the original name of URVentures, from 2006 to 2011.
He left University of Rochester in 2013 to join Roswell Park Cancer Institute as director of its Office of Technology Transfer and Commercial Development before moving on to PSU in 2018.
Tolbert said: “At Roswell Park, I was able to focus almost exclusively on cancer research. Penn State, as a much larger institution, gave me opportunities in very diverse areas, including medical licensing, biomedical technologies, chemistry and engineering.”
– Photograph courtesy of PSU
Thierry Heles
Thierry Heles is the editor of Global University Venturing, host of the Beyond the Breakthrough interview podcast and responsible for the monthly GUV Gazette (sign up here for free).
