Bonny Harbinger Ph.D., J.D.

Deputy Director
National Institutes of Health

Bonny Harbinger, Ph.D., J.D. is the Deputy Director, Office of Technology Transfer National Institutes of Health (NIH). OTT is responsible for managing the patenting and licensing activities for the NIH and Food and Drug Administration intramural research programs and the central development and implementation of intramural and extramural technology transfer policy for NIH and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

Dr. Harbinger serves on the NIH Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA) Subcommittee, the NIH Public-Private Partnership Liaison Committee, the National Science and Technology Council Deputies Committee on Technology, and the NIH Clinical and Translational Science Awards program Steering Committee.

Prior to joining NIH, Dr. Harbinger practiced law at a firm that specialized in False Claims Act litigation. Before attending law school, she had a private practice in clinical psychology and earlier served as an officer in the Israeli Armed Forces

Dr. Harbinger received her Ph.D. in clinical psychology from Alliant International University and a degree in law from the Georgetown University Law Center.

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