July 5, 2023
![From left: Dr. Juan Cubillos-Ruiz and Dr. Lisa Placanica. Photos: Julia Xanthos Liddy (left), John Abbott (right). Black-and-white portrait of Drs. Lisa Placanica and Juan Cubillos-Ruiz against a Cornell red background. Dr. Cubillos-Ruiz is in his white coat, while Dr. Placanica is wearing a dress.](https://innovation.weill.cornell.edu/sites/default/files/news_images/impact_lisa_juan_copy.jpg)
Dr. Lisa Placanica (B.A. ’00, Ph.D. ’09), the senior managing director for the Center for Technology Licensing at Weill Cornell Medicine, and Dr. Juan Cubillos-Ruiz, the William J. Ledger, M.D., Distinguished Associate Professor for Infection and Immunology in Obstetrics and Gynecology, discuss how the ecosystem for innovation at Weill Cornell Medicine provides the support entrepreneurial faculty and students need to turn their promising research into commercially viable drugs and other treatments.