Whitney Hastings is 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 managed diverse portfolios including therapeutics, medical devices, cosmetics, software, and food safety technologies.
Before joining Fermilab, Whitney served as a Senior Technology Transfer Professional at the National Cancer Institute’s Technology Transfer Center, where she provided training, negotiated agreements, and managed diverse portfolios spanning 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 of the Cancer Branch 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.
Within the FLC, Whitney has been deeply engaged since 2018, serving as Awards Program Chair, Promote Committee Chair, Vice Chair, and now Chair since 2023. She has spearheaded major initiatives, including launching the FLC website and Business platform, producing the Transfer Files Podcast, and expanding professional development through mentoring and learning programs.