Patrizia Washer

Bio

Patrizia holds the position of Investment Director at Titan and has over five years of experience in managing and commercialising R&D in medical and agricultural biotechnology. She gained her PhD in 1997 from The University of Western Australia in leukaemia research at the Telethon Institute for Child Health Research. In 1999, she began working in the commercial sector as manager of an agricultural diagnostic company based at Murdoch University in Perth. In 2001, Patrizia co-founded a consulting company in the biotech sector and moved into technology commercialisation for one of the largest university technology transfer companies in Australasia, Auckland UniServices Limited, based in New Zealand. Patrizia was at UniServices for 3 years as Business Manager of biotechnology managing the commercialisation of research within the life sciences for The University of Auckland. She negotiated numerous commercial research contracts and agreements with international biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies.