Sally Cudmore

She is responsible for the management and commercialisation of UCC’s IP portfolio, technology transfer, entrepreneurship programmes, and business engagement. This includes encouraging a culture of innovation and entrepreneurship at the university, the creation and support of spin-outs based on UCC IP, and student/graduate led start-up companies.

Sally has over 25 years experience at the academic-industry interface with research/university positions in Ireland (UCC), Germany (EMBL), USA (UCSF) and in industry (Elan Pharma). She was also the co-founder and initial CEO of a UCC spin-out company, Atlantia Ltd in 201. Sally holds a PhD in lifesciences from EMBL, Germany and a Masters in Technology Management from the Smurfit Business School in University College Dublin.