Department Contacts

Responsibilities: advancing strategic vision for commercialization, overseeing operational and business aspects of commercial activities, leads manages allocation of institutional resources in support of commercial infrastructure, oversees Baylor’s strategic relationships with external commercial partners, ensures an integrated approach to commercialization aligned to institutional vision.

Dr. Dilling directs the activities of the team that is responsible for managing and licensing Baylor’s intellectual property assets. Director of the Baylor Licensing Group since 2011, Dr. Dilling has 14 years of technology licensing experience at Baylor. Dr. Dilling has a Ph.D. in Genetics from Texas A&M University and an MBA from the University of Memphis.

Dr. Popper directs the activities of BCM Technologies, Baylor’s wholly-owned for-profit venture development subsidiary. BCMT is responsible for managing and administering start-up company formation for new ventures formed around the college’s biomedical assets. President of BCM Technologies since 2007, Dr. Popper also leads the activities of Popper & Company, a biomedical industry consulting firm. Dr. Popper has more than 21 years of hands-on biotech/life sciences operating experience. An internist and pathologist, she combines medical and scientific perspective with knowledge gained from managing a wide spectrum of life sciences businesses in diagnostics, devices and drug discovery. Dr. Popper has an M.D. from the University of Witwatersrand (South Africa) and her M.P.H. from Johns Hopkins University.