Tom Stackhouse Ph.D.

Dr. Tom Stackhouse is the Director for the Technology Transfer Center (TTC) at the National Cancer Institute (NCI), NIH. In this position, Tom oversees the technology transfer efforts, and the management of the patent portfolio and marketing activities for the NCI and nine other Institutes at the NIH. In addition, Tom provides oversight to the tech transfer activities of the NCI’s National Laboratory, The Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research (FNLCR) a Government-owned, contract-operated (GOCO) National Lab, currently operated by Leidos Biomedical, Inc.

Tom assists the NCI on coordinating intellectual property parameters and guidelines for several key NCI initiatives. Tom works with state and local economic development groups to foster new partnerships which facilitate the use of NCI technologies and expertise to advance the pubic health and stimulate the nation’s economies. Tom was one of the founders of the NIH Startup Challenge model whose pilot was the HHS award winning Breast Cancer Startup Challenge. Tom has served as 1) a member at large for the FLC Executive Board from 2009-2013 and was reelected in 2020, 2) was Vice Chair of the Education and Training Committee, FLC, and 3) was a past member of the FLC’s State & Local Government Committee.