About Me

Physician-engineer-scientist and technology transfer specialist with expertise in evaluating, protecting, and licensing intellectual property in the fields of digital health, AI/ML, medical devices, and gene therapy. Proven bridge between clinicians, researchers, investors and industry.

Experience

Sr Technology Licensing Specialist @ UR Ventures (February 2024 - Present)
University of Rochester Medical Center

Identify, evaluate, protect and commercialize technologies developed at the University of Rochester.
Digital health, artificial intelligence, machine learning, biomedical devices

Graduate Researcher @ Carvunis Lab (August 2017 - December 2023)
Department of Computational & Systems Biology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine

Advisor: Anne-Ruxandra Carvunis
Research Topic: Understanding how evolutionarily novel micro proteins influence the fitness of an organism
Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, Evolution, Genetics, Genomics, Systems Biology

Technology Fellow @ Coulter Translational Research Partners II Program (January 2017 - June 2017)
Department of Bioengineering, University of Pittsburgh Swanson School of Engineering

Identify, develop, and commercialize projects undertaken by bioengineers and clinical faculty that address unmet clinical needs
Stakeholder Discovery, Intellectual Property Analysis, Reimbursement Strategy, Business Plan Development

Education

Ph.D. in Integrative Systems Biology (2023)

Focus: Evolutionary Systems Biology
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA

M.S. in Bioengineering (2018)

Focus: Medical Product Engineering
Center For Medical Innovation
University of Pittsburgh Swanson School of Engineering, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA

Bachelor of Medicine & Bachelor of Surgery (2014)

Smt. NHL Municipal Medical College, Gujarat University, Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India
Internship: Vadilal Sarabhai General Hospital

Skills

Subject Expertise: Human health, machine learning, artificial intelligence, biostatistics, bioinformatics, medical product development, gene therapy
Intellectual Property & Licensing: Patent strategy, technology evaluation, licensing negotiation, contracts, industry partnerships
Business Development & Market Analysis: Technology valuation, competitive landscape analysis, business model development, go-to-market strategy, market research and customer discovery
Regulatory & Funding: FDA regulatory pathways, reimbursement strategy, SBIR/STTR grant writing
Technical Toolkit: Inteum, PatSnap, GlobalData, Inpart, FirstIgnite · Python, R, SQL, Git
Licenses & Certifications: Medical License and Registration, Gujarat Medical Council, India (Reg. No. G-52091) · June 2014 – Present

Publications

Selected

2025

Separating AI signal from noise: How TTOs can tell what’s real, pick the proper protection, and turn substance into deals

Parikh, S. B.

les Nouvelles, 58(4), 18–23.

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2023

A vast evolutionarily transient translatome contributes to phenotype and fitness

Wacholder, A., Parikh, S. B., Coelho, N. C., Acar, O., Houghton, C., Chou, L., & Carvunis, A.-R.

Cell Systems, 14(5), 363–381.e8.

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2022

On the illusion of auxotrophy: met15Δ yeast cells can grow on inorganic sulfur thanks to the previously uncharacterized homocysteine synthase Yll058w

Parikh, S. B.*, Van Oss, S. B.*, Castilho Coelho, N.*, Wacholder, A., Belashov, I., Zdancewicz, S., Michaca, M., Xu, J., Kang, Y. P., Ward, N. P., Yoon, S. J., McCourt, K. M., McKee, J., Ideker, T., VanDemark, A. P., DeNicola, G. M., & Carvunis, A.-R.

Journal of Biological Chemistry, 298(12), 102697. * equal contribution

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2021

LI Detector: a framework for sensitive colony-based screens regardless of the distribution of fitness effects

Parikh, S. B., Castilho Coelho, N., & Carvunis, A.-R.

G3 Genes|Genomes|Genetics, 11(2).

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