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Spencer Lemons
Founder and Managing Partner
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Prior to founding Spira, Spencer served the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center as its first Vice President of Industry Relations and Technology Transfer. He previously directed the Office of Technology Asset Management at Wake Forest University Medical School and served as associate director of North Carolina State University's Office of Technology Transfer and Industry Research (OTTIR). Spencer's background is varied including experience in education, medical research, and sales and marketing. He has licensed technologies in a broad range of fields leading to such successful products as Smartfresh®, EthylBloc®, Wisdom Panel™MX, IDX Imagecast® (now GE Centricity®) and "virtual colonoscopy". Spencer has been involved in the creation of dozens of new companies including Ikaria, Inc., Apoptos, Inc., LabKey Inc., Point DX Inc. (acquired by IDXC and now GE Healthcare), Biolex Inc., Xenoport, Inc., and Fate Therapeutics, Inc. Spencer has also served on the board of directors of seven start-up companies and been a participating member of a managed angel investment fund. Spencer is active in his professional association, the Association of University Technology Managers (AUTM), having served as its Vice President for the Eastern Region, and has been a guest speaker at numerous national and regional meetings for AUTM, Association of Independent Research Institutes (AIRI), the Licensing Executives Society (LES), the Society of Research Administrators (SRA), the American Chemical Society (ACS) and the Society for In Vitro Biology (SIVB).
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