
Edward Diehl, PhD
Commercialization Officer
Defense Health Agency
Edward Diehl is the Commercialization Officer, Office of Research and Technical Applications/Medical Technology Transfer, United States Army Medical Research and Development Command. He has more than 25 years of experience evaluating and developing life science technologies. He has held two faculty positions – Assistant Professor of Natural and Health Sciences at Barry University and Research Assistant Professor at the Northwestern University School of Medicine. He was subsequently hired as a Senior Scientist in the Diagnostic Division of Abbott Laboratories and then moved on to entrepreneurial roles in several startups and university technology transfer, where he participated in R&D, investment, licensing, and business and intellectual property development efforts. He became an I-Corps mentor in 2017 and coached teams in business development and lean start-up methodology. He founded the Diehl Group LLC, a life science consulting firm, which became Pathway Biotechnology LLC in 2018. He earned a B.S. in Biology from the Pennsylvania State University and a Ph.D. in Physiology and Biophysics from the University of Iowa.