David Fung, PhD
Senior Licensing Officer
Innovation Ventures
Chancellor/EVC/FAS

David manages intellectual property arising from research conducted at UCSF. He works with faculty and staff to evaluate new inventions and to develop appropriate IP strategies, with the goal of commercialization of the technology through licensing, whether to established companies or to new ventures.

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David has more than ten years’ experience in academic technology transfer, first at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, and then at Yale University. Prior to that, he was with PricewaterhouseCoopers serving its biotech and tech clients. His Ph.D. is in biophysics from Harvard University, and he has master’s and bachelor’s degrees in physics from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign and Stanford University respectively.

David is enthusiastic about working with faculty and other researchers to commercialize new technology for the benefit of the public.

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• Innovation Ventures (innovation.ucsf.edu)
• Office of Innovation, Technology and Alliances (ita.ucsf.edu)

Publications (3)

Top publication keywords:
Cell ExtractsXenopusMicroscopyGramicidinRhodaminesElectric ConductivityProtonsEscherichia coliMicroscopy, VideoListeria monocytogenesActinsPolystyrenesCell CompartmentationMicrofilament ProteinsFlagella

• Imaging techniques in microbiology.
  Current opinion in microbiology 1998 Fung DC, Theriot JA
• Listeria monocytogenes-based assays for actin assembly factors.
  Methods in enzymology 1998 Theriot JA, Fung DC
• Powering the flagellar motor of Escherichia coli with an external voltage source.
  Nature 1995 Fung DC, Berg HC