About CCR – Office of Policy and Intellectual Property (OPIP)
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About OPIP
Mission: The Office of Policy and Intellectual Property’s mission is to assist the Director with the building of partnerships, facilitating basic, translational, and clinical collaborations to ensure that the CCR is efficiently operating to develop new medical technologies which will meet the health care needs and goals in the area of both cancer and AIDS research, while maintaining compliance with applicable policy and regulations.
Areas of Focus:
Liaison- The Office of Policy and Intellectual Property serves as an Office of the Director (OD) liaison with the Office of General Counsel, Office of Technology Transfer, NCI Technology Transfer Center (TTC), NCI Ethics Office for the Center’s Directors, senior staff and others members of the CCR scientific and administrative community on issues relating to collaborative agreements, ethics, and administrative policy.
- The Office works with TTC in the promotion of technology transfer training outreach within the CCR. The Office works closely with the NCI Ethics Office to ensure that CCR staff are in compliance with current ethics training, regulatory, and policy requirements.
- The Office facilitates the communication, flow of information, and tracking and approval of required documents between the CCR OD and the TTC and NCI Ethics.
- The Office works closely and partners with TTC to facilitate the CCR OD by reviewing CCR patent filing decisions, promoting technology, supporting key technology development initiatives, and facilitating industrial basic, clinical, and translational research collaborations.
- The Office works with NIH technology transfer representatives to discuss technology initiatives and issues, including complex interagency collaborations, memorandums of understanding, clinical trial agreements, and technology development and management.
- The Office works to organize meetings with outside entities seeking to engage in collaborations with the CCR including: domestic and international industry, academia, and government.
- The Office serves as part of the CCR team that meets with industry representatives to establish partnerships in development, diagnostic development, and interchange between governments.
- The Office stays abreast of current Congressional, NIH, and NCI regulations as well as policies and procedures that impact the CCR.
- The Office serves as a member of CCR outreach brainstorming committees to review promotion or outreach strategies and plans.
Contacts
Eric Hale, J.D., M.S., M.B.A.
Associate Director
Building 31 Room 3A11
Tel: 301.594.9254
Fax: 301.496.0775
Email: halee@mail.nih.gov
Michael Gandolph, J.D.
Program Specialist
Building 31 Room 3A19
Tel: 301.496.4822
Fax: 301.480.0215
Email: gandolpm@mail.nih.gov
Office of Policy and Intellectual Property
Center for Cancer Research
National Cancer Institute
Building 31, Room 31/3A11
31 Center Drive - MSC 2440
Bethesda, Maryland
20892-2440
Links
Technology Transfer and Intellectual Property
Technology Transfer Center (TTC)
TTC Contacts
TTC forms
Technology Transfer Training
NIH Office of Technology Transfer (OTT)
PHS Technology Transfer Manual
OTT Policy
Federal Laboratory Consortium
US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO)
Ethics
Ethics Forms
NIH Ethics Office
NCI Ethics Office (after log in to MyNCI)
Conflict of Interest Information and Resources
Congressional Oversight
U.S. House of Representative Committee on Energy and Commerce - Oversight & Investigations Subcommittee
Legal, Policies and Regulatory Resources
NIH Manual
Code of Federal Regulations (CFR)
Federal Register (FR)
NIH Office of General Counsel (OGC)
NCI Office of Government and Congressional Relations (OGCR)
Office of Legislative Policy and Analysis (OLPA)
USPTO Policy & Law
FedLaw
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