Harvard Innovation Lab, Batten Hall, 125 Western Ave., Boston, MA
Registration is required for this free event. Register here
When information includes personally identifiable information, it is necessary to address special regulatory and contractual considerations in a company’s earliest stages. By pursuing data privacy and security “by design,” startup companies can be prepared for the...
Harvard Law School Library, Langdell Hall, Casperson Room, 1557 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, MA
I. Glenn Cohen's new book Patients with Passports: Medical Tourism, Law, and Ethics(Oxford University Press, 2014) is the first comprehensive legal and ethical analysis of medical tourism. Examining both the legal and ethical issues raised by medical tourism and how the two interact...
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
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 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
Harvard Medical School, New Research Building, Room 350, 77 Avenue Louis Pasteur, Boston, MA
Session one (Dec. 8) is open to the public. Session two, for registered students only, will be held on Friday, December 12, 2014 from 1:00 - 4:00 p.m., at a location TBD. Drop deadline for student registration is Monday, December 1, 2014. https://nanosandothercourses.hms.harvard.edu/node/349
Faculty: Fernando Camargo, PhD - Boston Children's Hospital...
Harvard Law School, Wasserstein Hall, Room 3018, 1585 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA
The Petrie-Flom Center will host a discussion of the issues surrounding noninvasive prenatal testing (NIPT), a screening method for detecting certain specific chromosomal abnormalities, as well as sex, in utero. NIPT may help mothers avoid other tests that could put their pregnancies at risk, but the ability to detect substantial information about a developing fetus with such ease raises a wide range of important ethical and legal issues. Our discussion will cover background on the technology, what makes NIPT unique, issues with global dissemination, eugenic implications,...
Harvard Law School, Wasserstein Hall, Room 1010, 1585 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA
Please join us for a screening of the documentary, Can We See the Baby Bump, Please?, followed by a panel discussion of the legal and human rights issues surrounding surrogacy and egg donation in a global context.
Panel: Judy Norsigian, Co-founder, Our Bodies Ourselves I. Glenn Cohen, Faculty Director of the Petrie-Flom Center, Professor of Law, Harvard Law School.
For more information on this event, please contact us at petrie-flom@law.harvard.edu or 617-496-4662....
Cell Press Webinar - register at http://view6.workcast.net/register?pak=6081570356271725&referrer=email
Guest speakers: Feng Zhang Assistant Professor Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT
Lucian Marraffini Assistant Professor Laboratory of Bacteriology The Rockefeller University
Moderator: Ernesto Andrianantoandro, Editor, Trends in Biotechnology
Clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeat (CRISPR) technology, a microbial defense system, has been developed based on its remarkable ability to bring...
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 Innovation Lab, Batten Hall, 125 Western Ave., Boston, MA
Join us to kick off the 2015 Deans' Health and Life Sciences Challenge Kickoff with Katrine Bosley, CEO of Editas Medicine. She will share her thoughts on the key factors of leading successful companies and advice on how to build effective teams and execute strategies to commercialize technologies that will ultimately impacting patients and their care.
Alston & Bird, The Atlantic Building, 950 F Street NW, Washington, DC
The Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics at Harvard Law School and the Food and Drug Law Institute are pleased to announce this collaborative academic symposium.
Student Organization Center at Hilles (SOCH), Harvard University, 59 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA
Currier House cordially invites you to The Atherton Lecture
Guest speaker: Dr. Arthur Caplan
Arthur Caplan is the founding head of the Division of Bioethics at New York University Langone Medical Center.
Known as the 'go-to' expert on ethics, medicine and science, Dr. Caplan has long been a trailblazer in raising awareness about the ethical questions that accompany scientific and technological advances.
He is the 2014 recipient of the National Science Board Public Service Award for an individual.
Harvard Medical School, Armenise Amphitheatre, 200 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA 02115
Have you ever wondered what it takes to move from idea to invention to commercial innovation? Join the Skills Development Center of the Boston Biomedical Innovation Center (B-BIC) on Thursday, September 18th from 4:30-6:30PM at Harvard Medical School for our inaugural event and panel discussion, “The Commercialization Apprenticeship”, and hear experienced faculty talk about the road to commercialization in the biosciences, covering the sweeping arc from the bench to the bedside.
Event is free and open to all members of B-BIC institutions. If you are interested in...
