Sury Vepa Ph.D. J.D.

Sury Vepa embarked on his technology transfer career, serving in various capacities in the NIH Office of Technology Transfer (OTT), beginning in 2005. Vepa was a technology transfer specialist in the NIH OTT until 2006, serving the tech transfer requirements of the National Institute of Mental Health. During a brief hiatus from NIH, Vepa worked as a clinical law instructor at the University of Maryland School of Law, and he co-supervised and trained student attorneys enrolled in the Maryland Intellectual Property Legal Resource Center. Prior to 2005, Vepa also served as a licensing associate in the Office of Industrial Liaison at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine and practiced patent law as a registered patent attorney, practicing before the United States Patent and Trademark Office and in the state of Maryland. In 2008, Vepa returned to the NIH OTT. Most recently, he joined the NCATS Office of Strategic Alliances in October 2015 as the Center’s senior licensing and patenting manager.

Vepa received his J.D. with honors from the University of Maryland and a Ph.D. in biochemistry from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India. He completed his postdoctoral research training at the Indiana University School of Medicine and worked as an instructor in the Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at Johns Hopkins University.