Jane Payumo
Jane G. Payumo is a Ph.D. interdisciplinary student at WSU and works part-time as Licensing Assistant of the Office of Intellectual Property Administration (OIPA) and WSU Research Foundation.
Guided by her research adviser and sponsor, Dr. Howard D. Grimes, the Vice President for Research and Dean of the Graduate School, Ms. Payumo is working on a dissertation that aims to determine the impact of intellectual property rights (IPR) on agricultural biotechnology among public research and development (R&D) institutions in Southeast Asia.
At OIPA/WSURF, she helps in data management, patent prosecution, licensing negotiations, and marketing of WSU agricultural biotechnologies. Before coming to OIPA/WSURF, she worked at the WSU Graduate School, where she helped put together the first two issues of the Responsible Research Newsletter for graduate students.
Ms. Payumo is also a scholar of the Philippine Rice Research Institute (PhilRice), the lead government agency for rice research in the Philippines. Her 13-year stint at PhilRice, enabled her to build her technical and managerial expertise, especially in the area of rice biotechnology, project development, and IPR. She played a significant role in crafting the IPR policy of PhilRice; helped run PhilRice’s Intellectual Property Management Office in its early years; and in developing appropriate institutional policies relevant to IPR management, technology commercialization, and R&D project review and evaluation. She was the main author and co-author of more than 30 technical papers and popular articles, published in Philippine and international journals; and contributed to developing and generating funds for about 20 research project proposals of PhilRice. An IPR advocate, she helped spread the importance of IPR and technology transfer management in other public institutions in the Philippines and abroad.
She received her undergraduate and Master’s degrees in the Philippines: Bachelor of Science in Biology (cum laude) from Central Luzon State University and Master in Technology Management (outstanding graduate) from the University of the Philippines Diliman.
