Events
Monday, April 22nd, 5:30-7:30pm, Mission Bay, Genentech N-114. Shawn Carbonell, MD PhD, Founder and CEO of Oncosynergy, was a postdoc in the UCSF Brain Tumor Research Center before he started this funded, preclinical company. In Shawn’s words, “OncoSynergy is the embodiment of my vision for improving patient outcomes in cancer and beyond."
Wednesday, April 17th, 7-9:30pm, Byers 212. Mix with Haas MBAs interested in healthcare and view a series of provocative short videos about how big data can produce real wisdom in the medical space.
Tuesday, April 9th, 6:00-8:00pm, Mission Bay. Charles Holmcy, MD, Venture Partner at Third Rock Ventures and Founder, former President and CEO, Portola Pharmaceuticals.
Friday, March 22nd, 11:30-12:30pm, Mission Bay. Anthony J. Coyle, PhD will provide an overview of Pfizer's Centers for Therapeutic Innovation (CTI), the evolution to create a new biomedical ecosystem, and key attributes of the open innovation model.
Wednesday, March 20th, 5:30-7:30pm, Parnassus. Abhas Gupta, Partner at Mohr Davidow Ventures, a leading venture capital firm that makes seed and early stage investments, will share his analysis of the digital health landscape. He’ll explain key trends, opportunities, business models, challenges in changing consumer behavior and example companies that are in the market. Come network, eat pizza, and learn something about this hot area for healthcare ventures.
Wednesday, Feb. 27th, 2013. 5:30-7:30pm. Ever wonder what’s involved in starting a life science company? Come to the Entrepreneurs Club meeting next week to hear a founder/CEO talk about his journey from starting a company in his living room to raising money from venture capital and managing an operational venture
Wednesday, Jan. 23rd, 2013, 5:30-7pm, Mission Bay. Jeff Burton, Executive Director of Berkeley’s startup accelerator Skydeck, will tell us about his program that offers space, mentoring and resources from the Berkeley ecosystem to UCB and UCSF affiliates. Our second guest is Dennis Boyle, is a founder and partner of IDEO, a state-of-the-art design firm with an innovative approach design, whether a device, diagnostic, mobile/digital app.
Monday January 14, 2013 5:30pm, Mission Bay. Steve Burrill, Founder and CEO of investment firm Burrill & Company, will deliver his respected annual analysis of the life science industry: opportunities, challenges and trends for the next year. Steve’s firm has $1.5 billion in assets under management and includes venture capital/private equity, merchant banking, and media, operating in the US and globally.
Pharma often isn’t getting enough from internal research and development to fill the gaps in its pipeline. Increasingly, pharmaceutical companies are looking outward to find innovative programs.
Monday, Dec. 17th, 2012 5:30pm. Stephanie Marrus, Director of The Entrepreneurship Center at UCSF, is offering a free workshop to instruct participants on how to create an executive summary in the UC-Berkeley Startup (Bplan) competition-required format. Competition participants get education, networking, team creation, mentorship, new venture financing and potential winnings of up to $25,000.
Tuesday, November 13th, 2012 5:30-7pm, Mission Bay. Allan W. May, Founder and Chairman of Life Science Angels -- the nation's largest life-science angel organization -- will discuss the role of angels in funding bio/medtech/life science companies.
Monday, October 15th, 2012, 6 pm to 8pm. Ever wonder what’s involved in starting a life science company? Come to the Entrepreneurs Club meeting next week to hear a founder/CEO talk about his journey from starting a company in his living room to raising money from venture capital and managing an operational venture.
Thursday, Oct. 11, 2012. 1pm-2pm, Mission Bay. NCI Program Directors will discuss current funding opportunities and available resources, SBIR/STTR program policy changes and how to write a competitive application.
Wednesday, Oct. 10, 2012. If you have a high-impact idea that addresses an unmet clinical need, and the desire and passion to bring your idea all the way to commercialization, you are eligible to be part of this program
Opinder Bawa, CTO of UCSF gave an overview of the technology landscape at UCSF. As a large health sciences campus, he has unique view of the challenges and opportunities of the next five years. Josh Newman, MD, Director Healthcare Strategy, Salesforce; Bre Jackson, CIO, Calhipso and Michael Keyoung, MD, Phd. VC Burrill Health joined for a panel discussion of the various partner opportunities.
This Speakers' Series event featured a venture capitalist and top attorney speaking about the opportunities created by this new federal legislation that allows for crowdsourcing of funds for companies.