Events

BioVenture eLab, part of Weill Cornell Medicine Enterprise Innovation, is delighted to announce a unique opportunity for those benefiting from or considering SBIR/STTR funding to help de-risk their inventions.

The National Cancer Institute’s Gregory L. Evans, PhD, Program Director and Team Leader for its SBIR/STTR programs, will visit the Weill Cornell Medicine campus on Tuesday, September 19. Dr. Evans will give an overview of the NIH/NCI SBIR/STTR grant program. In its most recent re-authorization of the program, Congress made certain changes to the application forms. It is important that you learn the details and understand what new information is required.

Whether you are looking to apply for an SBIR/STTR grant for the first time or have previously applied and are planning to re-submit, don’t miss this opportunity to speak directly with this prominent NCI representative.

When reaching out to investors for funding, you might wonder how some teams have succeeded in those initial conversations, while others haven't. Aside from describing the product and highlighting how it can help patients and medical providers, how can you showcase your startup to let investors know that your company has the key advantages that will set it apart?

BioVenture eLab, part of Weill Cornell Medicine Enterprise Innovation, is hosting a panel "Navigating The Current Climate: How To Be Attractive To Investors with Holley Edyvane, Principal & Entrepreneur-in-Residence with Miramar Global". The panel will feature Francesca Barone, M.D., Ph.D., CSO with Candel Therapeutics, Stuart Chaffee, Ph.D., Entrepreneur-in-Residence with Atlas Venture, and Dave Greenwald, Ph.D., Vice President, Business Development at Deerfield Management.

The panelists will pay special attention to these key areas:

• Leadership team
• Differentiated science
• Data validation 

The speakers will also offer tips on sources for gap funding. There will be ample time available for Q&A.
 
This event will be hybrid with limited in-person capacity at BioVenture eLab (1157 York Ave). Others are encouraged to participate via Zoom.

Led by the NSF I-Corps Hub: Interior Northeast (IN I-Corps), the free, month-long, virtual NSF I-Corps Regional Courses are designed for university-based STEM researchers and early-stage founders interested in exploring the market potential of their technology and learning valuable entrepreneurial skills. 

October 9 – November 8: Hosted by the University of Pittsburgh, an IN I-Corps Hub partner. Apply by September 13.

Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis. Apply now! Questions? Contact icorps@cornell.edu or visit  www.in-icorps.org/regional-courses. 

Join Osage University Partners for a Q&A webinar with panelists from the first three Patent Data Licensing webinars. General Data Protection Regulation will be discussed, as well as any outstanding questions you have on the area. Submit your questions ahead of time to get in the queue! Register here. 

Guest panelists, Robin Rasor of Duke University and Nila Bhakuni of Baptist Health, will talk through a few cases they have worked on from their institutions. They will discuss the processes the data went through at the universities, how the companies found out about and received the data, the licensing and other agreements processes, and lessons learned. Join us for a practical discussion on how patient data is making its way from academic institutions to companies to help bring forth new life-saving innovations. Register here. 

The Innovation & Entrepreneurship Workshop series is the Center for Regional Economic Advancement (CREA), a division of OVPRI’s, flagship offering for the Cornell Entrepreneurship Community. This series welcomes faculty, post–docs, graduate, and undergraduate students to explore the potential of launching a business grounded in their research and vision. Entrepreneurs are not required to attend every workshop, but the workshop is designed to explore the entrepreneurial journey from ideation to operation. Each workshop will be moderated by a relevant Cornell faculty member and feature subject matter experts as presenters. Questions? Contact crea@cornell.edu.

Led by the NSF I-Corps Hub: Interior Northeast (IN I-Corps), the free, month-long, virtual NSF I-Corps Regional Courses are designed for university-based STEM researchers and early-stage founders interested in exploring the market potential of their technology and learning valuable entrepreneurial skills. 

Accelerating BioVenture Innovation (ABI) is a 15-week course and training program in biomedical entrepreneurship. ABI builds teams around patented technologies originating from Weill Cornell Medicine, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and Rockefeller University.

Join Weill Cornell Medicine and the greater NYC life science startup community for the kick-off of our Accelerating BioVenture Innovation accelerator with special guest - Erandi De Silva, PhD, Co-Founder & Senior Vice President of Product Development at Forge Biologics!

The final installment in OUP's Funding and Equity Webinar Series is focused on an important function for your startup – your boards. Bob Adelson and Bill Harrington, Managing Partners at Osage University Partners, will be our panelists. 

• When do you need a Board of Directors?
• What is the purpose of the Board of Directors?
• What roles do the Directors play?
• What should the board composition look like at different stages of the company?
• How are the board members recruited and decided on?
• How often do the board meet and what other interactions do the officers in the company have with them?
• What other advisory boards should my company have and what purpose do they serve?
• How does compensation work for board members?
• What are the legal aspects of being a board member?

The panelists will also share a typical board meeting for a life sciences company and for a physical sciences company to help the audience understand what the board covers during meetings. Please submit any questions you have of the panelists below when you register.

Register here. 

Led by the NSF I-Corps Hub: Interior Northeast (IN I-Corps), the free, month-long, virtual NSF I-Corps Regional Courses are designed for university-based STEM researchers and early-stage founders interested in exploring the market potential of their technology and learning valuable entrepreneurial skills. 

September 18 – October 18: Hosted by Syracuse University, an IN I-Corps Hub partner. 

Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis. Apply now! Questions? Contact icorps@cornell.edu or visit  www.in-icorps.org/regional-courses.