Jaya Ghosh, PhD, is the Director of the Coulter-Drexel Translational Research Partnership Program. She has experience in translational research program and project management and served as the Assistant Coulter Program Director (2015-2018), the Coulter Program Director (2019-2023) and the MBArC (funded by the National Institutes of Health Research Evaluation and Commercialization Hubs or NIH REACH) Lead Program Manager (2019-2023) at the University of Missouri prior to joining Drexel. As the Drexel Coulter Program Director, she is responsible for managing all processes associated with de-risking, reviewing, funding, and tracking of Coulter projects.

Jaya is also a consultant Program Manager for the NIH Concept to Clinic: Commercializing Innovation (C3i) program, a trained National Science Foundation (NSF) I-Corps instructor (Phase 1) and serves regularly as a proposal review panelist for the NSF Small Business Innovation Research/Small Business Technology Transfer (SBIR/STTR) programs. At MU, she was an adjunct faculty in the Chemical and Biomedical Engineering and Management departments and taught the Coulter Business Boot Camp which was offered annually to teams of engineering and clinical researchers, pressure-testing the commercial viability of their translational research ideas using universal business criteria as well as the unique requirements of biomedical product commercialization. Before joining the MU Coulter program, she completed a one-year engineering fellowship with the MU Biodesign & Innovation program. Jaya has a PhD in Bioengineering from MU and a bachelor’s degree in Instrumentation and Control Engineering from Manipal Institute of Technology in India.

Email: jg3948@drexel.edu