Robin RASOR, as Director of Licensing, Ms. Rasor oversees staff handling all functions of the licensing process at the University ranging from management and marketing of disclosures to developing and negotiating appropriate licensing terms for license agreements, and finally to maintaining and monitoring existing agreements.

Previously, Ms. Rasor was Director of Licensing at The Ohio State University. Her primary focus was on technologies arising from life sciences research from the Colleges of Food, Agriculture and Environmental Sciences, Biological Sciences, Dentistry, Medicine, Pharmacy and Veterinary Sciences. In her previous ten years experience with Battelle Columbus Laboratories, a leading US contract research firm, Ms. Rasor traveled extensively to Japan and Europe for marketing and research programs.

Ms. Rasor has a MS in Genetics from The Ohio State University and a BS in Bacteriology and Zoology from Ohio Wesleyan University. A former member of the Association of University Technology Managers (AUTM) Board of Trustees as the Vice President for Planning, Ms Rasor will be returning to the AUTM Board in 2010 as President-Elect. She has also served on the Board of Directors, most recently as Treasurer, of the Ann Arbor Area Chamber of Commerce.

In 2005, she was awarded the President's Award for service to AUTM. In 2007, Ms. Rasor was part of the team headed by Dr. Arul Chinnaiyan honored by The American Association for Cancer Research in its first annual AACR Team Science Award.