Irene Abrams

Irene is the Senior Vice President of Research Innovation at Boston Children’s Hospital, leading the Technology & Innovation Development Office (TIDO). TIDO is responsible for commercializing discoveries and innovations developed by researchers and clinicians at Boston Children’s Hospital. Irene is also the managing director of the hospital’s Therapeutic & Medical Device Accelerator. In addition to her work at BCH, Irene is Chair-Elect of AUTM, a non-profit organization with the mission of supporting and advancing the commercialization of academic research worldwide.

Prior to joining Boston Children’s, Irene was an Executive Director at Partners Healthcare Innovation, responsible for commercializing technology from Massachusetts General Hospital. Before joining Partners, Irene was the Associate Provost for Innovation at Brandeis University and founded the Brandeis Virtual Incubator. Prior to joining Brandeis, Irene was a Senior Technology Licensing Officer at M.I.T., where she focused on licensing biotech inventions for M.I.T., the Whitehead Institute and the Broad Institute.

Irene did her undergraduate work at the University of Pennsylvania and her graduate work at the Johns Hopkins University and M.I.T. Irene is the past President of the Massachusetts Association of Technology Transfer Offices, the founder of T3, a networking organization for technology licensing offices from small New England research institutions, and a former Vice President of the Associate of University Technology Managers.