Whitney Hastings

Whitney Hastings is Chair of the Federal Laboratory Consortium (FLC) and the Division Head of the Office of Partnership and Technology Transfer at Fermilab, a Department of Energy laboratory. She has decades of experience in technology transfer, leading numerous technology transfer initiatives and managing diverse technology portfolios across multiple technology sectors. Before joining Fermilab, Whitney served as a Senior Technology Transfer Professional at the National Cancer Institute’s Technology Transfer Center, where she led commercialization programs and negotiated agreements for therapeutics, medical devices, software, and food safety technologies. Previously, Whitney was an Intellectual Property and Partnerships Manager at the Food and Drug Administration, Senior Licensing and Patenting Manager and Acting Branch Chief at NIH’s Office of Technology Transfer, engineer with Corning, Inc., and fellow in the NCI Nanobiology program. She graduated with a BS in mechanical engineering and a minor in bioengineering from Clemson University and completed her master’s and PhD in Mechanical Engineering at Johns Hopkins University.”