Sara Mendes Reis

PAR ("Associação PAR – Respostas Sociais") is a non-profit-making organization based in Lisbon, Portugal, whose vision is to empower the development of potentialities of each person. To achieve that purpose, we promote social and community integration, access to health care and education. Currently, I am incubent upon the treasue.

Technology transfer: • Business consulting activities and promotion of R&D services between university and industry • Funding applications • Support the establishment of spin-off companies • Promotion of the entrepreneurial ecosystem Intellectual property: • Regulation and exploitation of IP rights • Writing and submission of national and international patent applications

Representative of Take The Wind company, for US market. • Promote Body Interact™ - the first 3D Medical training platform that accelerates critical thinking and clinical decision-making. • Business development and sales representative. • Coordination of “Innovations in Advanced Medical Education” event at IC2 Institute, University of Texas at Austin

External consultant supporting several programs developed by the entrepreneurial organization from ISCTE Business School: • PAE with Santa Casa da Misericórdia • PAE with Mouraria (Lisbon City Hall) • YA Entrepreneurship School • Business Creativity Summer School with Hochschule Mainz - University of Applied Sciences, Germany

Intellectual Property • Due diligence of inventions • Patent search • IP management Technology Commercialization • Market assessment of new technologies • Marketing and technology commercialization • Identification of potential companies to collaborate with

• Provided a framework for the analysis on the progress and management of science, technology and innovation. • It allowed to proceed a career in management of science and technology. • Dissertation theme: “Governance of emerging scientific areas in Portugal: The Regenerative Medicine case”

• Fostered the entrepreneurship spirit. Gained conceptual and technical management knowledge. • During this specialization I developed a business project based on thematic festival related with land art concept: "Safira | Festival de Artes na Paisagem"

• EU student exchange program. • Spent a period of studies in Italy during my graduation. Besides complementing my studies and providing me with other perspectives of my graduation field abroad, this experience has proven my ability to easily adapt to multicultural environments.

• Specific training in molecular biology and genetics through a range of disciplines for intermediate level of expertise, besides basic training in exact sciences and general and applied biology.