NYC Bio and the Center for Biotechnology announce a new seminar series, the "Nuts and Bolts of Biotechnology Entrepreneurship" to take place in four sessions from September to December.

Building on the New York City area's exceptional strengths in academia, medicine, business and finance, this series is designed to explore the practical legal and business aspects of technology commercialization. We aim to present the most important knowledge that every venture-minded innovator, academic faculty member, postdoctoral or graduate student needs to transition their ideas into companies. The four sessions are
1. "Entrepreneurship in the Biotechnology Industry," on September 2nd, 2009
2. "Intellectual Property and Technology Licensing," on October 7th, 2009
3. "Business plans 101: making the pitch," on November 11th, 2009
4. "Crossing the Valley of Death: guides to transitional, pre-seed and seed funding," on December 9th, 2009

Venue: Stony Brook Manhattan
401 Park Avenue South (between 27th and 28th Streets), 2nd Floor
New York, NY 10016
Note: If you are arriving before 7:00 pm, you can use the 401 Park Avenue South entrance (between 27th and 28th Streets) to come to the Main Hall on the second floor. After 7:00 pm, you need to use the 110 East 28th Street entrance.

Time: 6:30-8:00 PM on September 2, October 7, November 11 and December 9, 2009.

The registration and payment are on a session by session basis and there is a uniform fee of $10 for each session.

All payments should be made through PayPal when you RSVP on the meetup website http://biotech.meetup....

The first session "Entrepreneurship in the Biotechnology Industry" will be held September 2 and feature panelists:
• Alan Paau, Vice Provost for Technology Transfer and Economic Development at Weill Cornell Medical College;
• Mark Wilson, President of Initiatives Consulting;
• Jeff Yablon, Director of Sales (North America) at Aris Global LLC;
• Jim Chinitz. CEO of Population Diagnostics; and
• Lorrence H. Green, President of Westbury Diagnostics.

NYC Bio is a private not-for-profit organization to facilitate collaboration, innovation and entrepreneurship in the NYC bioscience community. Our goal is to build and sustain a thriving NYC biotech cluster. Through networking and educational events, we draw together people and resources from the NYC pillars of academia, medicine, business and finance.

The Center for Biotechnology (CFB) is a cooperative research and development partnership between universities, private industry and New York State. Our mission is to catalyze the translation of basic biomedical sciences into diagnostic and therapeutic technologies that benefit human health and society, and fuel economic growth.