Partha Choudhury

Partha Choudhury serves as Associate Director of Business Development at the University of Notre Dame’s IDEA Center, where he helps move Notre Dame discoveries toward practical application and impact. He develops commercialization and partnership strategies, engages industry partners and licensees, and structures and negotiates license, option, and related agreements.

Working across disciplines and at the intersection of university research, innovation, and industry, Partha collaborates with faculty, researchers, entrepreneurs, companies, and investors to connect Notre Dame inventions with market needs and development opportunities. He helps create pathways through which ideas can become products, services, new ventures, research collaborations, and other solutions that benefit society. His approach combines scientific training, commercial judgment, clear communication, and sustained relationship-building.

Before joining Notre Dame, Partha spent approximately ten years leading technology licensing and business development at Temple University, Augusta University, and Wake Forest University. His work spans therapeutics, diagnostics, medical devices, specialty chemicals, nanomaterials, clean technologies, and other fields, involving startups, midsize companies, and major corporations. He also cultivated relationships with entrepreneurs, investors, economic-development organizations, and other contributors to the innovation ecosystems of the institutions he served.

Partha earned a Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry from Wake Forest University, an M.S. in Chemistry from the University of Miami, and an M.Sc. from the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, where his research focused on nanomaterials. He holds a Bachelor of Science with Honours in Chemistry from the University of Calcutta.

Partha is especially interested in how purposeful collaboration can transform discoveries into accessible, scalable innovations that improve lives, strengthen communities, and contribute to sustainable economic and social progress—advancing Notre Dame’s commitment to knowledge in service of the common good and to being a powerful means for doing good in the world. He believes that lasting impact begins with relationships strong enough to extend beyond any single transaction.