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    Biomedical Entrepreneurship Course (3 credits) – Fall 2016

     

    About the course:  This Biomedical Entrepreneurship course is designed to train future life science entrepreneurs, and focuses on entrepreneurship in the medical device and biopharmaceutical space.  It is based on the premise that entrepreneurship is a critical mechanism to bring new technologies to market that will benefit society.  Moreover, entrepreneurship is particularly critical in the medical device industry, where product life cycles are typically very short and a firm’s innovativeness dictates competitive advantage. Biopharmaceutical startups face particular challenges given long development cycles.  

    Teams will be coached by industry experts who address fundamental topics in biomedical entrepreneurship.  Students will gain experience that will help them be entrepreneurs in startups or with established firms.  Projects will be presented to external experts and teams will be considered for subsequent awards/funding.

    Targeted students: This course is designed for graduate students or very advanced undergraduates.  It represents a multi-disciplinary effort between the Schools of Engineering, Business, Medicine, Pharmacy, and Liberal Arts and Sciences and will be co-taught by expert faculty from these schools.  Interdisciplinary teams will tackle real clinical needs to offer technical solutions and business models that might enable future commercialization. 

    Instructors: 

    Mostafa Analoui, Ph.D., Head of Healthcare and Life Sciences at The Livingston Group, and Chairman and CEO of Cense Biosciences, Inc.

    Ki Chon, Ph.D., Professor and Department Head of Biomedical Engineering

    Timothy B Folta, Ph.D., Professor, Thomas John and Bette Wolff Chair in Strategic Entrepreneurship, Faculty Director of the Connecticut Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation

    Cato Laurencin, Ph.D., MD, Albert and Wilda Van Dusen Distinguished Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery, Director of the Raymond and Beverly Sackler Center for Biomedical, Biological, Physical and Engineering Sciences, Director of the Institute for Regenerative Engineering, CEO of Connecticut Institute for Clinical and Translational Science

    Dennis Wright, Ph.D., Professor of Medicinal Chemistry

    Course Details:  The course is cross-listed in the Schools of Engineering (BME 6086-020) and Business (BADM 5894-011 and MGMT 5895-012).  It will be held Wednesdays, 3-6pm at the Connecticut Center for Entrepreneurship & Innovation (CCEI) facility in East Hartford (222 Pitkin St.) – a central location for students in Storrs, Hartford, and Farmington.

    How to Enroll:  A short application process is required.  Please contact Rae Asselin at rae.asselin@business.uconn.edu to receive a brief application.  Pending approval, a permission number will be issued for registration.

    For more information, contact: Rae Asselin / CCEI at 860-486-6774 rae.asselin@business.uconn.edu