Maria Rahmany is currently the Director for Business Development and Portfolio Management at Columbia University’s Technology Transfer office- Columbia Technology Ventures (CTV). In her current role, Maria works with the technology licensing team to strategize, market and commercialize innovations from Columbia Investigators across research sectors, manages Columbia’s strategic partnerships with Industry as well as guides development of new accelerator programs under Columbia’s Lab to Market umbrella.
Additionally, Maria leads the Columbia Diversity & Inclusion in Commercialization & Entrepreneurship program, which launched in 2021 and aims to support students and researchers who identify as being from traditionally underrepresented groups in early stage technology commercialization.
Maria is also Adjunct Faculty with the Department of Biomedical Engineering in which she teaches the lab-to-Market Life Science Accelerator course which provides specialized frameworks in life science development to faculty led teams and graduate students with an interest in commercialization.
Maria received her PhD in Molecular Medicine & Translational Science and MBA from Wake Forest University followed by post doctorate training in Biomedical Engineering at Virginia Tech.