Terri Butler, PhD

Director, Research Partnerships
Institute of Translational Health Sciences
Assistant Director, Buerk Center for Entrepreneurship
University of Washington

Terri Butler, PhD, is the Director of Research Partnerships at ITHS, the primary contact for the ITHS Drug and Device Advisory Committee, and the Assistant Director of the Hollomon Health Innovation Challenge at the Buerk Center for Entrepreneurship in the Foster School of Business.

Over her career, Dr. Butler has worked in nearly every aspect of commercialization, from invention, product development, regulatory management and manufacturing to sales and marketing. She has been at large companies and small, including 3M, Bioenergy Life Sciences, and multiple university spin-out companies.

Products she has commercialized include monoclonal antibodies, cardiac products, pharmaceutical release liner, nutritional formulations, and several non-medical technologies in the high tech materials field. She is an inventor on 13 patents in coating processes, chemical formulations, and nutritional applications.