Expand your career horizons as a JHTV fellow.

The JHTV Commercialization Academy is a highly competitive program that provides Johns Hopkins full-time students with exposure to the fields of commercialization and entrepreneurship through a two-year paid fellowship. Academic-year fellows work approximately 8-10 hours per week, with the option to work full-time over the summer. Fellows come from a variety of academic programs and share curiosity, team orientation, and an ability to understand complex and cutting-edge technologies.

JHTV Commercialization Fellows gain unique experience with day-to-day methods and career paths in technology development, as well as personal mentorship from seasoned commercialization professionals. Fellows work with JHTV staff and entrepreneurs to turn groundbreaking Johns Hopkins research into products that change and save lives and even transform entire industries.

Career Pathways Explored at JHTV

Technology Development
Assist with accelerating high-value and high-pact technologies to market. Provide inventors a sense of their impact, including understanding currently unmet needs, and the market opportunity for innovation.

Technology Transfer
Gain an inside look at how Hopkins engages companies to develop each technology from idea to the real deal via contracts, financing, royalty payments, and more. Cultivate contacts and generate interest in Johns Hopkins technologies by creating compelling descriptions and fine-tuned value propositions for companies of all sizes.

Corporate Partnerships
Learn about the relationships with companies that have their next steps in mind, and how Johns Hopkins keeps those firms informed about opportunities to license technologies that will give them a market edge.

Inside the Academy

Get the inside story direct from our fellows about their experiences with the Commercialization Academy and meet our current fellows.

Career Exploration

Discover the organizations JHTV fellows join after the Commercialization Academy program.

Application Information

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Contact Jun

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Jun Park

Commercialization Academy Manager