Wednesday, January 26, 2022
Like many children growing up in the 1960s, Richard Chylla was fascinated by the United States space program and dreamed of becoming an astronaut.
Chylla never did, but his love for everything that landing on the moon signified – science, exploration, pushing boundaries – stayed with him throughout high school and college, and even into his professional career.
It is that same passion that brought Chylla to Charlottesville as the University of Virginia Licensing & Ventures Group’s new executive director. (UVA LVG is the intellectual property management and innovation commercialization organization for the University’s research portfolio.)