About us
Business Development connects innovators, industry leaders, investors and health systems to advance mission-driven solutions that transform healthcare and improve patient impact worldwide.
The Mayo Clinic advantage
Business Development connects innovators, industry leaders, investors and health systems to advance mission-driven solutions that transform healthcare and improve patient impact worldwide.
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Direct clinical integration
Close clinician collaboration across specialties and settings -
Longitudinal, multi-specialty data depth
Deep data assets that drive insights and outcomes -
De-risked, protected innovation
Validation and know-how reduce risk and improve success -
Unified licensing and venture capabilities
End-to-end expertise to maximize innovation impact -
Enterprise-wide strategic alignment
Broad alignment focused on high-impact opportunities
Our approach
We’re commercializing technology and forging strategic collaborations to accelerate healthcare innovation.
Our purpose
We collaborate internally and externally to deliver strategic, innovative and mission-advancing solutions for the benefit of patients worldwide.
Our values
Mayo Clinic’s values, rooted in its founders’ principles, are guided by a primary commitment: putting patients first in care, research and service to communities.
Our story
For over a century, Mayo Clinic has advanced patient-centered innovation by partnering with innovators and entrepreneurs to bring healthcare technologies to life.
Our team
Mayo Clinic Business Development brings together experts who evaluate and develop ideas, inventions, partnerships, investments, and strategic growth opportunities.
Our team is dedicated to enhancing health outcomes by championing innovation and supporting inventors in bringing life-changing solutions to patients worldwide.
Mayo Clinic Chief Business Development Officer
Our collaborative efforts are accelerating cures, connecting more people through data, and transforming healthcare to better serve patients around the globe.
Medical Director
Mayo Clinic Department of Business Development
More about Mayo Clinic Business Development
Our purpose
Collaborate internally and externally to deliver strategic, innovative and mission-advancing solutions for the benefit of patients worldwide.
Our values
Mayo Clinic is a values-driven organization, grounded in the principles established by our founders, Drs. William and Charles Mayo, and the Sisters of St. Francis.
At the heart of these principles is our primary value: the needs of the patient come first.
This guiding principle, along with our broader set of values, shapes every aspect of how Mayo Clinic delivers care, conducts research and serves communities.
Our story
Fostering innovative ideas. Supporting bold initiatives. Advancing cutting-edge solutions. Those tenets are the bedrock of our philosophy in serving Mayo Clinic’s patient-centric mission and values.
We focus on strategic business opportunities from all angles that can help address the unmet needs of patients. From teaming up with proven innovators to the new entrepreneur on the block, we collaborate across the spectrum to bring disruptive healthcare technologies to life.
Ensuring alignment of values is at the core of our careful approach to building relationships with like-minded private organizations, investors and research entities. Our innovators and partners share our passion to solve some of the most complex medical problems through life-changing therapies, surgical procedures and technologies so patients everywhere can receive exactly the care they need when it is needed.
Mayo Clinic has long understood the importance of advancing innovation and commercialization to scale processes for broad application. What started as a modest technology transfer office nearly 40 years ago has fervidly grown to be what is now Mayo Clinic’s Department of Business Development, bearing with it a full toolbox for generating startups, license agreements, partnerships, strategic collaborations, acquisitions and venture investing.
Our multidisciplinary team carries the knowledge, skill and agility required to navigate the twists and turns of the paradigm shift occurring now in healthcare – understanding and catering to the latest in consumer demands and evolving market trends. We act as the bridge between industry and commercial groups to help pave the way.
The dedication and collaborative spirit embodied by our team, coupled with our accountability to place the needs of the patient first, will continue to support Mayo Clinic’s unwavering commitment to defining the next generation of healthcare.