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Kickoff to a new IA Year in 2008-2009! UCSF IA Launch Dinner Party! You are invited to participate in the UCSF Innovation Accelerator. The Innovation Accelerator is a dynamic organization that provides valuable resources to an elite group of aspiring entrepreneurs.
To learn more about the IA, and upcoming events, join us at the IA launch dinner party!
April 14, 5-7 PM, Room 215, Byers Hall, UCSF
RSVP at: http://acteva.com/booking.cfm?bevaID=157519
Thanks to our Sponsors, Participants, CBE, the IA team, and UCSF community! |
2007 Global Life Science Innovation Competition
UCSF Announces Winners of Global Life Science Innovation Competition UCSF hosted the Second Annual Global Life Science Innovation Competition on April 20, when the top three winning teams received $15,000 in prize money for their inventions. The winner of the first-place Merck Research Laboratories Grand Prize of $10,000 was Vasotech, a San Francisco-based biotechnology company that produces tissue-engineered, small-diameter vascular grafts designed to address important, unmet clinical needs in vascular surgery. The grafts, measuring 0.7 mm, have the quality of natural, healthy vessels, including high patency rates, low risk of thrombosis and stenosis, and immunocompatibility, all of which current synthetic grafts lack. Vasotech plans to focus initially on the needs of patients with peripheral vascular disease..." Read More Thank to our Sponsors, Participants, CBE, the IA team, and UCSF community! | The UCSF Entrepreneurs Discussion Group (EDG)
The UCSF Entrepreneurs Discussion Group (EDG) is a brainstorming meeting where leading edge innovations in biotech and the life sciences are advanced towards commercialization and funding. EDG meets regularly to shepherd inventors and their ideas along with help in improving their business plans, identifying and assessing markets and market risk, creating contacts with potential investors, etc. Some emphasis is put on preparing people to enter the Innovation Accelerator Idea Competition that occurs each spring, but ideas at all levels of development are welcome. Lively interactions are our hallmark, everyone emerges a little more knowledgeable and a little wiser. EDG meets at Genetech Hall around lunchtime, snacks provided. For more information contact: | UCSF Innovation Accelerator’s Distinguished Venture Capital Panel
Start-up Funding for Dummies from Experts
Wednesday, January 17
6:00 – 8:00 PM
Robert W. Mahley Auditorium, J. David Gladstone Institutes, UCSF Mission Bay CampusSponsored by UCSF Innovation Accelerator, J. David Gladstone Institutes, UCSF Center for BioEntrepreneurship and QB3. A free event featuring premier venture capitalist investors including:• Alex Barkas, Ph. D., Co-founder & Managing Director, Prospect Venture Partners
• Karl Handelsman, Ph. D., Managing Director, CMEA Ventures
• Fred Middleton, MBA, Managing Director, Sanderling Ventures
• Bryan Roberts, Ph. D., Managing General Partner, Venrock AssociatesFor more information contact Bryan Soper at gme@cmp.ucsf.edu.
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