Prior to joining UCSD TechTIPS, Dr. Denise Lew held research positions for 10 years at several San Diego biotech companies. As a scientist, Denise's areas of expertise are molecular biology, gene therapy and animal models of cancer and infectious disease. At TechTIPS she is a senior licensing officer with responsibility for the inventions originating from faculty in life sciences research.

Denise earned her B.A. degree in biology in Dallas, and worked for several years at the Stanford University Department of Biochemistry. After obtaining her Ph.D. in Biochemistry from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, she was awarded an NIH fellowship to pursue her postdoctoral training at the Salk Institute in La Jolla.