September 27, 2005
Monthly lectures to be videoconferenced to new partners at Cornell University’s Center for Life Science Enterprise, Syracuse Technology Garden Incubator, and CNY MedTech
Troy, N.Y. — The Severino Center for Technological Entrepreneurship in the Lally School of Management and Technology at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute will launch the 2005-2006 Biotechnology Management & Entrepreneurship Seminar Series on Sept. 28. The monthly seminars will address the challenges and best practices in developing entrepreneurial biotechnology ventures. Speakers will focus on the life cycle of biotechnology entrepreneurships, and discuss emerging business models, legal, financial, and other management issues.
To broaden the dialogue and exchange about biotechnology initiatives, for the first time the Severino Center is partnering with Cornell University’s Center for Life Science Enterprise, and the Nanobiotechnology Center in Ithaca, N.Y., Syracuse Technology Garden, and CNY MedTech in Syracuse, N.Y., to include videoconferencing of the lectures to those locations.
To kick off the series, the Sept. 28 event will feature a discussion between a “technopreneur” and a university spin-out specialist. The seminar, on “Concept to Company,” will include guest speakers David Weinstein, founder and CEO of Gliamed Inc. based in New York, and Matthew McCooe, director of Science and Technology Ventures at Columbia University. The program will be moderated by Shreefal Mehta, research assistant professor of biotechnology management at Rensselaer’s Lally School and the event’s organizer.
“The biotechnology management and entrepreneurship seminar series aims to provide insights to students and executives on how to successfully grow their careers and companies in the biotechnology industry,” said Mehta. “By partnering with Cornell and CNY MedTech through videoconferencing, we can reach a wider audience of students, faculty, and business leaders in upstate New York who gain from the experienced speakers and practical talks in the series.”
The seminar series, which is free and open to the public, will be held on Rensselaer’s campus, in the Bruggeman Conference Center in the Center for Biotechnology and Interdisciplinary Studies, 15th Street at College Avenue, in Troy, N.Y., from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. To encourage networking among students, faculty, and business leaders, Rensselaer’s Severino Center will host half-hour receptions before and after the forums.
Marketing assistance is provided by Bioconnex, New York Biotechnology Association, and Rensselaer’s Alumni Association.
The schedule and speakers for the remaining dates in the fifth annual Biotechnology Management & Entrepreneurship Seminar Series Fall 2005-Spring 2006 is as follows:
- Wednesday, Oct. 26, “What every researcher
should know about the new law on use of patented technology
in research,” Ted Hagelin, director, New York State Science
and Technology Law Center, Syracuse Law School.
- Wednesday, Nov. 16, “Fast business, furious
science: Acceleration of basic life sciences discoveries into
commercial products,” Carl Weissman, president and CEO of
Accelerator Corporation, Seattle, Wash.
- Wednesday, Dec. 7, “What makes a venture
management team successful?” Paul McManus, Boston Millennia
Partners, director of Portfolio Company Executive Resources,
Boston Millennia Partners.
- Wednesday, Feb. 8, “Personalized medicines and in vitro diagnostics – Opportunities for new ventures,” Christoph Hergersberg, global technology leader-Biosciences, GE Global Research, Niskayuna, N.Y.
Additional dates include: March 6 and April 19. For more information, go to the series’ Web site at www.lallyschool.rpi.edu/biotechseries.
About the Severino Center
Established in 1988, the Paul J. ’69 and Kathleen M. Severino Center for Technological Entrepreneurship (SCTE) helps foster new generations of budding and successful entrepreneurs through outreach programs, education, and research. Centered in Rensselaer’s Kenneth T. and Thelma P. Lally School of Management and Technology, the mission of the SCTE is to integrate educational and research programs by exposing every Rensselaer student to the practices and principles of entrepreneurship; infuse the fundamentals of entrepreneurship throughout the Rensselaer curriculum; extend Rensselaer’s leadership and national prominence in technological entrepreneurship; and enhance the synergy between entrepreneurship and information technology. For more information on the Severino Center, visit www.scte.mgmt.rpi.edu.
Contact: Jessica Otitigbe
Phone: (518) 276-6050
E-mail: otitij@rpi.edu