12/03 Seminar – Taking research to market impact as a career launch (and track?)

Magali Dieny Eaton, J.D., LL.M.  

Law Lecturer and Assistant Director for Innovation Training 

In this talk you will hear about how Magali turned her early entrepreneurial endeavors and academic research background into a career helping academics learn the skills to turn their research into impact through entrepreneurship. From there you will dive into the four paths researchers usually take to create impact with their research, and the resources available as you consider this possible career track.

Magali Dieny Eaton is CoMotion’s Assistant Director for Innovation Training and a faculty member at the University of Washington’s School of Law.

Before joining the university, she practiced law in two major international firms in France and in Seattle. She managed intellectual property portfolios and transactions for clients in a wide breadth of industries, including retail, manufacturing, therapeutics, wine, publishing, luxury goods and gaming. In her spare time, she also started and grew a youth non-profit organization. Magali joined the UW in 2014 through the entrepreneurial law clinic, a program pairing law students with mentors to offer legal advice to low-income entrepreneurs. She currently designs and deploys innovation training programs for faculty, startups and students at UW CoMotion and teaches intellectual property law at the University of Washington School of Law.

A member of the New York bar, she also holds a Master’s degree in international law from Universite Jean Moulin in France, and an LLM from the University of Washington where she attended thanks to a Fulbright scholarship. In her free time, she likes to mountaineer, ski, and paint.

This is the last of three Bioscience Careers Seminars we are doing in collaboration with CoMotion. Check out the recaps for more information about the previous talks!

In addition, the CoMotion team is currently accepting applications for its Innovation Development Intern Program. This is a program targeted at graduate students and postdocs, in which you’d be helping the CoMotion team evaluate the commercial potential of UW inventions (more info and instructions on applying if you follow the link above).