Harvard Innovation Lab, Batten Hall, 125 Western Ave., Boston, MA
Biotechnology start-ups have never faced a funding environment as difficult as we have today. Investing priorities have shifted toward late stage investments, while global financial uncertainty and a history of more failures than successes in biotechnology investing have reduced the amount of money available for early stage commercialization. How can the early stage biotechnology company adapt to face these challenges, especially with respect to pre-Venture Capital funding?
The short answer is that common but inefficient practices which may have been tolerable in the past, need to...
Harvard Medical School, Goldenson Room 122, 220 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA
Poster session with wine and cheese to follow in the Courtyard Cafe, Armenise Building. Open to the public - all are welcome!
Former Student Speakers: Dion Dickman, University of Southern California “A forward genetic screen using electrophysiology identifies synaptic plasticity mutants and links with neuropsychiatric disease”
Aimée Dudley, Pacific Northwest Diabetes Research Institute “Natural variation and the regulation of biofilm formation in yeast”
Harvard Innovation Lab, Batten Hall, 125 Western Ave., Boston, MA
Michael Skok will share his roadmap of what is needed to build a startup, milestones along the way, and how to pull that pitch together to get the venture attention and funding your idea deserves. After the workshop you should have a better understanding of:
- The holistic checklist to think through your venture in a business like plan - What matters to a VC/Investor - How to think about your roadmap from startup to public company
The Seaport World Trade Center, 200 Seaport Boulevard, Boston, MA
Program of Boston Children's Hospital.
Taking a worldwide perspective, the 2014 Global Pediatric Innovation Summit + Awards is designed to address unmet needs, solve problems and seize opportunities in pediatric health care. Join a vibrant mix of thought leaders including clinicians, health care leaders, venture capitalists, policy makers, payers and other stakeholders for a productive exchange about the most pressing pain points in pediatric medicine.
Boston Children’s Hospital has convened the top minds in innovation to spur dialogue and build collaboration. The robust...
Harvard Medical School, Cannon Room, Building C, 240 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA
Lecturers:
Dr. Chad Nusbaum, Co-director, Genome Sequencing and Analysis Program, Broad Institute
Dr. Peter Park, Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Children’s Hospital, and HMS Center for Biomedical Informatics
Mr. Robert Steen, Director, Harvard Medical School Biopolymers Facility
Description:
Traditional capillary sequencing technology using base-specific chain termination by fluorescent di-deoxy nucleotides represents modifications to the original sequencing methodology devised by Sanger and colleagues in the 1970s....
Massachusetts General Hospital, Darwin Room, 5th floor, 185 Cambridge Street, Boston, MA
Guest speakers: Dennis Sgroi Professor of Pathology, HMS and Biju Parekkadan Assistant Professor of Surgery, MGH
"Microprinted models to probe the human tumor microenvironment"
Abstract: Tumor-stromal interactions are a determining factor in cancer progression. Here we present clinical evidence of heterogeneous gene expression in the epithelial and stromal compartments of patient biopsies where highly enriched subpopulations of...
