Thao N. Nguyen
Sponsored Contracts Specialist at UTHealth Houston
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Thao N. Nguyen is a Sponsored Contract Specialist at UTHealth Houston, where she negotiates clinical trial, sponsored research, collaboration, services, and subaward agreements. Leveraging a Ph.D. in Applied Physics (computational biophysics/chemistry) from Rice University, she aligns project scopes with risk mitigation related to intellectual property, publication rights, liability exposure, confidentiality, audit, insurance, data use, and regulatory compliance under federal and Texas state law and institutional policies. Thao previously served in the Office of Technology Management, where she helped develop the institution’s open‑source licensing policy by drafting early policy frameworks and software release license agreement, while also supporting patent prosecution and technology commercialization.
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SmartContract - an AI-powered tool to enable contract negotiation
SmartContract is a contract redlining tool developed in-house at UTHealth Houston, trained using internal agreements and incorporating UT System-specific contracting terminology and institutional risk criteria. The tool currently consists of separate modules for agreements processed by research administration, legal affairs, and procurement teams. The objective of developing the tool is to automate first-pass redlines to reduce turnaround time and the effort required for repetitive tasks for the contract negotiator. The tool can also generate draft agreements using UTHealth Houston templates for a specific agreement type. UTHealth contract negotiators review every flag and retain the final decision.
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