David Winwood, PhD, RTTP

I am a Registered Technology Transfer Professional and have been managing commercialization activities in universities since 1996.

Before these university appointments, I served in research, business development, and company leadership roles in startup businesses, with an emphasis on fundraising and corporate partnership development. My experience in academia and the private sector includes basic research, business development, company formation, licensing and management of university intellectual property, technology-based economic development, and related issues.

Since 2014, I have served as a Specialist Reviewer for the Congressionally Directed Medical Research Program and previously as a reviewer for the Research Competitiveness Program of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).

During my university technology transfer career, I have focused on technology transfer related public policy issues: I served on the Executive Committee of the Washington, D.C.-based Council on Governmental Relations (COGR) and made an invited presentation on patent reform matters to the U.S. Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship.

At Wake Forest Innovations my goal is to enhance our capacity to add value and impact to the outputs of research and innovations created by Wake Forest and Enterprise teammates by moving basic research discoveries to partners who will transform these inventions into beneficial products and services, thereby improving quality of life.