Dr Nadia DanhashIntellectual Property Adviser, Director, InnovationRCA
Tel: +44 (0)20 7590 4249
E-mail: nadia.danhash@rca.ac.uk
Nadia Danhash is special adviser to the centre on Intellectual Property and contract negotiation. As the Intellectual Property lead at the RCA, and Director of InnovationRCA, she is responsible for managing the College's Selected Works/Start-Ups programme, in which graduate innovations are developed and commercialised.
A PhD biochemist-molecular biologist by background, Nadia began her career as a research scientist studying the genetics and molecular biology of brewing yeasts and fungal plant pathogens in Manchester and the Netherlands. She had 12 years biotech industry experience in a variety of management roles covering business development, strategic and operational product centre management and marketing prior to joining the Royal College of Art.
Nadia has held positions of responsibility at large organisations (GE Healthcare Biosciences and Thermo-Fisher Scientific) as well as start-ups and has worked in Europe, the USA and Asia. She is also an MBA graduate of Imperial College Business School.
