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Jaya Ghosh, PhD (she/her/hers)

Jaya Ghosh, PhD, is the Director of the Coulter-Drexel Translational Research Partnership Program and Co-Director and Manager of Translational Boot Camps at the University of Missouri (MU) TecHub, part of the National Science Foundation-funded Accelerating Research Translation (NSF ART) Program. She brings over a decade of experience in translational research training, and program and project management.

Prior to joining Drexel, Dr. Ghosh held several leadership roles at MU, including Assistant and later Director of the Coulter Program (2015–2023), and Lead Program Manager for MBArC, a National Institutes of Health Research Evaluation and Commercialization Hubs (NIH REACH) initiative (2019–2023). In these roles, she managed the review, funding, and oversight of early-stage product development projects, directing up to $1M annually in investments to advance academic innovations.

At both Drexel and MU, she leads business Boot Camps that help academic innovators build compelling business cases and assess the commercial viability of their research using universal business criteria.

Dr. Ghosh also serves as a consultant Program Manager for the NIH Concept to Clinic: Commercializing Innovation (C3i) Program and contributes regularly as a proposal review panelist for the NSF SBIR/STTR Programs. She was recently inducted as a Senior Member of the National Academy of Inventors for contributions to innovation and translational research. Earlier in her career, she completed a one-year engineering fellowship with the MU Biodesign & Innovation Program. She holds a PhD in Bioengineering from MU and a Bachelor’s degree in Instrumentation and Control Engineering from the Manipal Institute of Technology in India.

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