Mojdeh Bahar () is an American

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and government official specialized in

technology transfer Technology transfer (TT), also called transfer of technology (TOT), is the process of transferring (disseminating) technology from the person or organization that owns or holds it to another person or organization, in an attempt to transform invent ...

. She is the associate director for innovation and industry services at the

National Institute of Standards and Technology The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is an agency of the United States Department of Commerce whose mission is to promote American innovation and industrial competitiveness. NIST's activities are organized into Outline of p ...

. Bahar previously worked as the assistant administrator for technology transfer at the

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. She was chief of the cancer branch in the

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Education

Bahar completed a B.S. with honors in chemistry and French at

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in 1994. She earned a M.A. from

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and a J.D. from the

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Career

Bahar was an examiner with the

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(USPTO). She is a certified licensing professional, a registered technology transfer professional and a

registered to practice before the USPTO, the State of Maryland, the

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, and the

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. Bahar worked at the chief of the cancer branch at the National Institutes of Health's (NIH) Office of Technology Transfer. She led a team responsible for marketing, patenting and licensing NIH and

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inventions in the areas of cancer, gene therapy and biological response modifiers. While working at the NIH, Bahar first served as the regional coordinator for the

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region of the Federal Laboratory Consortium for Technology Transfer (FLC) from 2008 to 2011 and then as the national chair from 2011 to 2013. Bahar was the assistant administrator for technology transfer at the

. She had broad responsibility for managing intellectual property and technology transfer across the

United States Department of Agriculture The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) is an executive department of the United States federal government that aims to meet the needs of commercial farming and livestock food production, promotes agricultural trade and producti ...

. Bahar led the service’s external interactions with industry, academia and government dealing with intellectual property and technology transfer. In May 2020, Bahar joined

(NIST) as the associate director for innovation and industry services (ADIIS). She oversees NIST's technology transfer programs. When she joined, she reported directly to director Walter Copan. Bahar translated poems by Iranian writer

Mohammad-Reza Shafiei Kadkani Mohammad-Reza Shafiei Kadkani (, also Romanized as "Mohammad–Reza Shafi'i Kadkani") (born 10 October 1939) is an Iranian writer, poet, literary critic, editor, and translator.Living people Year of birth missing (living people) Place of birth missing (living people) National Institute of Standards and Technology people National Institutes of Health people United States Department of Agriculture officials Dickinson College alumni New York University alumni University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law alumni 21st-century American women lawyers 21st-century American lawyers American people of Iranian descent American patent attorneys 21st-century American women civil servants