Masood joined CTTC in February 2012 and is responsible for identifying, protecting, and marketing technologies in both physical and life sciences, as well as managing the licensing activities for VU e-Innovations.
Prior to joining CTTC, Masood was a technology transfer intern and a post-doctoral research fellow at Wake Forest University. Masood received his Ph.D. in 2010 from the Virginia Tech-Wake Forest University School of Biomedical Engineering, working at the Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine, where he worked on developing tissue-engineered skeletal muscle constructs for functional repair in a rodent injury model.
Masood also worked on cardiovascular bioengineering, specifically evaluating the impact of smooth muscle seeding on structural, biomechanical, and physiological characteristics of tissue engineered blood vessels, using a sheep carotid-jugular fistula model. He received a Bachelor of Technology degree in Dairy Science and Technology, and subsequently received M.Tech and MS degrees in Biotechnology and Bioinformatics, respectively. Masood is a member of Association of University Technology Managers, where he serves on the Membership Committee, and the Licensing Executives Society. Masood is a winner of 2014 Howard Bremer Scholarship awarded by the Association of University Technology Managers (AUTM).