Michael Batalia, Ph.D.
Director, Office of Technology Asset Management, Wake Forest University

Michael Batalia, Ph.D. joins Wake Forest University Health Sciences from the Office of Technology Transfer at North Carolina State University (NCSU). In his four years at NCSU, Dr. Batalia served as the interim associate vice chancellor and director of the office and prior to that as associate director, managing inventions and technology from the life sciences and physical sciences. He has worked with many start-up companies and businesses to license intellectual property into the commercial sector. He is also active in his professional association the Association of University Technology Managers. Prior to joining NCSU, Dr. Batalia was a postdoctoral fellow at the Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where his research focused on molecular immunology and structural biology. Dr. Batalia has a B.A. in Chemistry from the University of Chicago and a Ph.D. in Biochemistry from the University of Texas at Austin.