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Great news for venture-minded Alumni!

The Center for Biotechnology has partnered with the non-profit organization NYC Bio and announced an upcoming seminar series/NYC Bio Meetup, entitled “The Nuts and Bolts of Biotechnology Entrepreneurship.” This four-part series is designed to educate innovators, academics, postdoctoral fellows, and graduate students on the practical, legal, and business aspects of commercializing their technology and transitioning their ideas into the bioscience industry.

All sessions will be held at the Stony Brook Manhattan Campus (401 Park Avenue South between 27th and 28th Streets, 2nd Floor, New York, NY 10016) at 6:30-8PM on their designated dates.

The first seminar entitled “Entrepreneurship in the Biotechnology Industry” will be held on Wednesday, September 2, 2009.

Featured panelists include:

• Alan Paau, Vice Provost for Technology Transfer and Economic Development at Weill Cornell   Medical College;

• Mark Wilson, President of Initiatives Consulting;

• Jeff Yablon, VP of Sales and Marketing at Sciformix Corp.;

• Jim Chinitz, CEO of Population Diagnostics; and

• Lorrence H. Green, President of Westbury Diagnostics.

Future seminars will run until December 2009 and are scheduled as follows:

“Intellectual Property and Technology Licensing,” on October 7th, 2009

“Business Plans 101: Making the Pitch,” on November 11th, 2009

“Crossing the Valley of Death: guides to transitional, pre-seed and seed funding,” on December 9th, 2009

There are only 63 slots for this series so registering early is HIGHLY recommended. The registration fee for each session is $10 (students/post docs) and $20 (everyone else) payable upon registration. And if you register for all four sessions at once, you even get a discount package ($30 for students/postdocs, and $60 for everyone else). Considering the caliber of the featured panelists and the networking opportunities at this event, I personally think that’s a steal.

To register, fee payments should be sent to the PayPal account: NYC.BIO.4U@gmail.com. Email your information to the same account and include: (1) your full name, (2) affiliated institution/company, (3) the session(s) you are interested in attending, (4) registration fee paid, and (5) the payment email address you used. NYC Bio will only confirm your registration upon receiving your payment.

For more details, see NYC Bio’s Meetup.

See you at the Series!