Life Science Bio Sessions

These sessions are designed to expose young faculty and graduate students from the life sciences to the entrepreneurial world. Each seminar is centered around a business school-like case.

2017 Sessions

This first lecture in the Columbia Precision Medicine Initiative, Life Science Entrepreneurship seminar series, features a discussion with two of Regeneron’s leadership team: President and CSO George Yancopoulos, MD, PhD, and President and CEO of Regeneron, Leonard Schleifer, MD, PhD. The panel, moderated by the Director of the Columbia Precision Medicine Initiative Tom Maniatis, PhD, covers the life-cycle of an idea from basic research to a commercially viable product with a focus on Target Patient, Value Proposition and Forecasting; Attracting Investors; Clinical Development and Regulatory Pathways.

 

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This lecture in the Columbia Precision Medicine Initiative, Life Science Entrepreneurship seminar series, features a discussion with distinguished panelists Tom Maniatis, PhD, (Director, Columbia Precision Medicine Initiative), Charles Zuker, PhD, (Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, CUMC), and Tony Evnin (Partner, Venrock).

The panel, moderated by Tig Conger, MBA (Heritage Partners), cover topics of Basic Biology, Clinical Application and Pre-Clinical Development, and Intellectual Property.

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The third installment of the Columbia Precision Medicine Initiative Life Science Entrepreneurship seminar series, features a discussion with Kevin Mills, PhD (CSO, Cyteir Therapeutics), Laurence Blumberg, MD (COO, Syntimmune), and Jerry Kokoshka, PhD (Senior Associate Directory, CTV). The panel, moderated by Tig Conger, MBA (Columbia Business School), offer personal pitfalls, success stories, and advice on starting a pre-clinical stage company with a focus on identifying a lead program, securing funding, building a management team, and regulatory and clinical planning.

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Distinguished panelists Mark Leuchtenberger, MBA (President, CEO, IRX Therapeutics), Cameron Durrant, MD, MBA (Chairman and CEO, KaloBios Pharmaceuticals), and Ron Newbold, PhD, MBA (VP, External R&D Innovation, Pfizer) discuss the development of a business plan to bring early stage technologies through clinical development and into the marketplace.

This fourth lecture of the Life Science Entrepreneurship seminar series is moderated by Lorraine Marchand, MBA (Managing Partner, Centricity Health and Adjunct Professor at Columbia Business School).

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