Sunita Rajdev is the Director of Licensing and Strategic Alliances, Life Sciences, in the Stanford Office of Technology Licensing (OTL). She has over 20 years of experience in academic technology transfer with expertise in intellectual property management, leading the negotiation of licensing and research collaboration agreements, business development, and start-up formation. Sunita extensively collaborates with other Stanford translation-focused groups to help create and manage strategic alliances with non-profit and for-profit entities to translate innovations from Stanford labs into products and services for public benefit. Before joining the OTL in December 2019, Sunita held various technology transfer positions at UCSF, including time as its interim executive director, with multiple responsibilities in addition to licensing that included supporting the creation and management of large research collaborations. Sunita received her Ph.D. in Pharmacology from the University of Pittsburgh and completed her postdoctoral training at UCSF.