St. Jude taps exec to lead new tech commercialization team
St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital has recruited former venture capitalist Lisa Jordan to lead its new tech commercialization department. (Courtesy St. Jude Children's Research Hospital)
As the hospital’s first-ever senior vice president of technology commercialization, former venture capitalist Lisa Jordan will help St. Jude researchers patent, license and commercialize their work, whether through collaboration with industry partners or by launching startup companies.
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Aisling Mäki covers health care, banking and finance, technology and professions. After launching her career in news two decades ago, she worked in public relations for almost a decade before returning to journalism in 2022.
As a health care reporter, she’s collaborated with The Carter Center, earned awards from the Associated Press and Society of Professional Journalists and won a 2024 Tennessee Press Association first-place prize for her series on discrepancies in Shelby County life expectancy by ZIP code.
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