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Jan. 27, 2006

David Winwood Named Associate Vice Chancellor for Technology Development and Innovation at NC State

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Dr. David Winwood has been named the new associate vice chancellor for technology development and innovation at North Carolina State University. Vice Chancellor for Research
and Graduate Studies John Gilligan made the announcement.

Winwood will be responsible for overseeing the Centennial Campus Partnership Office and the Office of Technology Transfer, and will look to enhance the performance and efficiencies of both offices by bridging the parallels between the company recruitment done by the partnership office and the commercialization and licensing activities of technology transfer. He will also connect all aspects of company recruitment and creation with technology creation and licensing.

“Research has shown that businesses spun out of university creations stay close to home and contribute to the economic vitality of the state,” Winwood said. “In using the university’s strengths in science and technology, we’re able to create technologies, which in turn often leads
to the birth of a start-up company to license the created technology. My hope is to have such
companies locate on Centennial Campus and contribute to the economic prosperity of North
Carolina.”

Most recently the director of Centennial Campus, Winwood has held technology development positions at several universities, including Ohio State, NC State and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He also has experience in business development and early-stage drug development activities.

Winwood holds bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral degrees in chemistry from the University of East Anglia in Norwich, England, and a master’s degree in liberal studies from NC State. He has more than 20 peer-reviewed publications and reviews in the areas of synthetic chemistry and drug design and delivery, as well as numerous invited presentations.

Recognized as one of the nation’s leading universities in science and technology, NC State is ranked ninth among national research-extensive universities in industry-funded research, third in total state and local research funding among public national research universities, second in total research expenditures in the University of North Carolina System, and 31st nationally among public universities in total expenditures for research and development. More than 50
companies have spun out of NC State, creating more than 13,000 jobs.

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