Dr. Nghia Chiem serves as Director of the Office for Innovation and Commercialization after more than a decade of working experience in early-stage companies. He is focusing on implementing a comprehensive program of supporting innovation, technology transfer, commercialization and economic development activities.
Before coming to UA, Chiem was a technology manager at the University of Tennessee Research Foundation, where he focused on the commercialization of technologies developed from inventors of the Institute of Agriculture, Chemistry, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering.
Prior to that assignment, he served as a senior scientist for Protein Discovery, a life sciences company based in Knoxville, Tennessee, with a focus on commercializing sample preparation technologies for the mass-spectrometry market. He also previously was a senior application engineer at Coventor, and a co-founder of a spin-off company.
Chiem earned a doctorate in analytical chemistry from the University of Alberta in 1997 and a bachelor’s degree in chemical physics from Simon Fraser University in 1992.
Before coming to UA, Chiem was a technology manager at the University of Tennessee Research Foundation, where he focused on the commercialization of technologies developed from inventors of the Institute of Agriculture, Chemistry, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering.
Prior to that assignment, he served as a senior scientist for Protein Discovery, a life sciences company based in Knoxville, Tennessee, with a focus on commercializing sample preparation technologies for the mass-spectrometry market. He also previously was a senior application engineer at Coventor, and a co-founder of a spin-off company.
Chiem earned a doctorate in analytical chemistry from the University of Alberta in 1997 and a bachelor’s degree in chemical physics from Simon Fraser University in 1992.
